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Adventures in Cebu – update from Ellen

May 16, 2015 I’ve just returned from Cebu a few hours ago.  Laarni and I took Marife Matildo and her mother to a specialist who diagnosed Marife with Lupus.  Finally she has a proper diagnosis. Her medicine will be expensive but we have encouraged her mother to go to Loboc and talk with social services […]

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Update from Ellen – at work in the Philippines

Today (Thursday) we invited the students from the feeding program and their families to come to our house.  We tried to enter their barrio of Canlasid yesterday but it was blocked due to cementing of the road, therefore we were unable to interview the kids to update their information.    (I had lots of fun trying […]

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A note from the Philippines…

Denny and I have been here in the Philippines for one week now and of course as always the time goes very quickly.  Yesterday I invited all the teachers from Calunasan Elementary School to the house for a meeting and lunch.  It was a productive time for us.  After lunch Vicky Acain, who is in […]

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It Started Under a Tree

It started under a tree. The questions, the planning, the offer of partnership. It was a White Acacia and it provided welcome shade from the hot Kenyan sun.  Water has always been an issue here, but for the past few years it has become even more difficult to get. Water is the mainstay of our physical […]

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Sharing the Joy

A couple of weeks ago Denny and Ellen Freed, Josh and I, were in Africa starting a project to provide water to a community of about 2000 people. This involved the development of several springs, laying about 2.5 km of pipe and building 2 tanks and a water station where the families can fill their water cans […]