Jack Odhiambo and Inko Ndlovu-Mathuthu, yearlong volunteers, arrived Wed. evening joining two more yearlong volunteers, Eric Douglas and Janis Ott, who came on Sunday. David King, serving as a crew leader; Mim and Leo Martin, serving as assistant...
Here we are to the end of another week at the Cape Breton Project. But not only the end of the week—also the end of our time here in Cape Breton. The short-term volunteers this week are the Wiens family from Manitoba, and the Strathdees from ON....
On Sunday evening, we welcomed 17 volunteers from several locations in Kansas. It is exciting to have full teams to send out with anticipation of getting homes restored. On Wednesday, the new Project Director and Office Manager arrived from...
A new week and we welcome a new group, this time from Shantz Mennonite Church in Ontario. We continued to work on shingling the roof of Pushpa’s home. It is a steep roof with many peaks and valleys, including dormers. This also included some siding...
The week began with the arrival of youth group from southern Manitoba, then on Monday and Tuesday the arrival of three long-term volunteers to make our number 26 in total. Despite some rain this week, we were able to accomplish good things. Nadine’...
On Sunday afternoon, our volunteers for the week began to arrive – one man from Minnesota and a group of nine adults and 11 children, ages 2-12, from Kansas. It has been a different atmosphere with children in the building! The older children...
The August leadership team arrived on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The new team includes: Dave – Project Director from New York; Ruth -Office Manager and Ed – Crew Leader from Kansas; Em – Head Cook and Don – Assistant...
We had no weekly volunteers scheduled until a week ago. The summer youth program group that was going to go to Dawson Springs got redirected to Red Lake due to insufficient work left to do there. Our surprise volunteers came to us from Wisconsin...
For the final week of the Summer Youth Programin Crisfield, eight youth and five adults came from the Neffsville Mennonite Church, Neffsville, PA. Joining us on the leadership team was Tom Fry from Gilbertsville, PA, serving as a crew leader for...