More of Rhino Refugee Camp and Heading back to Royal International School

Daily we have been getting pictures and updates from Dan.  I am not always sure of the order of events, but want to make sure you all see the images and hear the videos.  These will at least give you an idea of what the Team is experiencing, no matter what order they appear.  To start off, here are a few more images from Rhino Camp.

Click here to view a video from a few members from the Jerusalem Church.

A Worship Team Dance and Song

The Rhino Camp Quiz Show, featuring Caleb, Darby and Josiah

The Team Singing in Church

Outside Jerusalem Church, Saying Goodbye

Yesterday's Blog talked about Alex competing this structure.  Today, Monday, January 30, Alex was hoping to purchase the roofing sheets and begin installing them tomorrow.  He hopes to start nursery school soon.  He expects to have 45 kids in each of the three classes (3's, 4's and 5's)  The parents are begging him to also open classes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades.  Alex said that if we could raise $1,500 per classroom ($4,500 total), it could be opened in two weeks.

 Where do you get your water.  Here are a couple of videos that tell more of how the people at Rhino Camp get and transport their water.

          Where does the water come from?

          How does the water get to their huts?  Each person uses at least one 5 gallon jerry can of water per day.

 An Instant Village

 (Note:  100% of all gifts to Royal School International go 100% to Africa.  Renae & Dan Peters guarantee this.  All gifts are tax-deductible in the USA.  The Peters' offices are in Surprise, AZ.)

After leaving Rhino Camp (whose total population may be approaching 1 million), the Team "rushed" to Bwana Tembo Safari Camp.  "Rushed" is in quotes because using Google maps, the Team took a "short cut" on some of the worst roads any of them had ever seen.  It included weaving thru poles in someone's backyard on a track so narrow it could only have been a walking path!  (I have no pictures - I was too busy laughing at "Mayor Mike" while he tried to drive the obstacle course.  - Dan Peters)

Bwana Tembo means "Mr. Elephant" - because often the elephants come into the compound.  This time a family of baboons greeted us.  There was just enough time before sundown for a game drive in Murchison Falls National Park.  Here are a few images of this drive.

The funniest thing!  We saw an elephant sleeping STANDING UP!  His tusks on both sides of the tree while his trunk wrapped around the tree.

Davide & Francesco, the two Italian brothers who own Bwana Tembo, served us a great steak and vegetable dinner while Rose Aber, Country Director of Village of Hope (VOH) shared how her ministry of rescuing child soldiers had begun.  Now  over 700 children, including young girls who were raped and became moms, VOH is a vital ministry in Gulu and Acholi area of Northern Uganda.