Too good to be true - technology fails us!

HI all,

So sorry for the delay in posting! I thought we had great internet connection....but too good to be true! The modem broke after a fall...(not lights on the farm). Then we couldn't get the SIM cqrd in with the new one..so there you go...! We sure kept busy though! I am attaching an excerpt from Tom Osborne the Hydrologist on the team and hope to attach some others to catch you all up.

Hello all,
Our Ugandan trip group just made it to Amsterdam very early this morning, the 21st. It was a bit over an 8-hr flight from Entebbe.
There has been a rush to get showers by all the group, as many haven't had a chance, or passed on the cold shower- no soap option in Entebbe. It usually takes multiple scrubbings to shed all the African red dust from the knooks and crannys. Everyone is doing well and glad our return is now well underway. It was hard saying goodbye to our sponsor child Steven yesterday. He got to spend a special day hanging around with me in Kampala as we transacted business all over town for ongoing and future water development projects. He was at my side the whole time, and it was hard to part. He is in very good hands there at Tender Mercies.
There is much exciting work going on at Tender Mercies in Kayunga, the main focus of the AidSpirit team. They started teh porcess of clearing 1/2-acre of property for a new dorm for the kids. Hope 2 One Life's efforts on the refugee farm near Masindi have paid large dividends in the health of the 56 families and 125 or so children there. The drip irrigation has allowed introduction of fresh vegetables into their diets during the dry season when otherwise it would be only ground maize and kasava root. The childrens skin is now "glistening" and healthy. I am elated that the solar water pumping system we patched together at the last minute really worked in the field. We already purchased a 24 volt solar panel to replace the smaller one I brought and that will allow production of 3,500 liters of "free"water from the well on a sunny day. The two teams combined to make the long trip on all dirt roads to Kolongo in northern Uganda, where we visited the Dr. Ambrosolio Hospital and school. THis is were most of the medical equipment shipped in teh big container is going. It was much larger than I envisioned, and serves a huge area of N. UG, and southern Sudan. The nuns there were a complete joy, gracious, and interested in us. It is no small miracle that they and the hospital survived the 20 year LRA war that raged around them. God really protected they little enclave.
We will be assessing how we might help there- it is a very dry part of the country and their crops failed this year. So we are thinking of introducing drip irrigation.

Some of us may take the train into Amsterdam since we have 9 hrs. I unfortunately forgot my laptop and cell phone at teh farm in the haste of leaving yesterday. It will be brought by the remaining team later I hope.
Well, love to all and looking forward to seeing you all,

Tom Osborne