We arrived in Kabwe late Thursday night to stay at HOPE's own Maplehurst Farm. The farm was purchased in 2005 for several purposes. The farm is used primarily as the Zambian base for HOPE and a dairy farm for selling milk. This is different than our other projects, in that it is run by New Zealanders and has a purpose of income-generation for our other Zambian partnerships. Most of our projects are run by indigenous leaders. HOPE has more partnerships in Zambia than any other country, so that is why it made sense to have an income-generation project here.
The second purpose of the the farm is to teach pastors and leaders from around Zambia how to grow food for themselves and their communities. The farm has a large model garden. After the students of gardening go home, they set up a model garden, and then they can show people in the community how to have home gardens in which to grow their own food.
The first two days we visited some of our partners who were attending a conference in Kabwe and listened to a few speakers. My favorite part was to see the African people sing and dance!
I met a very interesting person who is from Hope Baptist in Las Vegas, but is now moving to Zambia. Andy Milligan is with a group called Surgance. He is moving to Africa to start peanut factories which make nutritional supplements for HIV-positive and starving kids. When given ARV medicine in combination with this supplement, many kids have been saved from the brink of death. It is brilliant. Also, his church happens to be one of our main out-of-state supporters for La Mai Coffee!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
2. Trip to Zambia
I had a smooth flight to Frankfurt all Tuesday night. Found a great little brand new hotel at the airport that had a day rate. They were very flexible on my hours of stay. I stayed from 10 in the morning to 9 at night and got 8 whole hours of sleep! For those of you that know me, I don't sleep a lick on a plane, so this was a huge blessing. If you ever need a place to stay by the airport in Frankfurt, write down the Park Inn. Free shuttle, free internet, and soundproof windows. Perfect!
I made it smoothly on my next 10 hour all-night flight to South Africa. I only had one problem at the Johannesburg airport. When I went through passport control, something on the computer flagged my passport and they had to take me to the police office. For some reason the guy next to me and myself had a warrant out for our arrest from the same police station somewhere in South Africa for stealing an Avis rental car. Strangest thing. They kept asking us if we knew each other. He was from Tunizia and I was from Texas. Finally, they just let us go because they couldn't figure it out. The man and I exchanged email addresses just in case we had other issues traveling throughout Africa.
So I was escorted back to the passport checking area and toward my gate and I arrived there about 20 minutes before the flight. In all the chaos, I had missed the spot where I was to receive a boarding pass. So they said that check-in for the flight was closed. But thankfully, he made a couple of phone calls and then hand-wrote me a boarding pass on a scratch piece of paper. I took a bus to the tarmac and when I went up the stairs to my South African airplane, they asked for my boarding pass. I reluctantly handed her my scribbled paper, and she just looked at me like i was crazy and said, "This is not acceptable!" I told her it is what the guy gave me, and she shook her head and said she would have to make some calls. I survived my third hurdle and they let me on the plane. Then a few hours later I was in Zambia...about noon on Thursday. Finally here!
Oh, but no luggage! And one of my suitcases was filled with about $3000 worth of camera equipment for our friend, Lane.
Lane and Aaron were late because of traffic, but a lady they knew happen to be at the airport picking up some other people. So, they asked her to find me. Then, I turned on my phone to find that I wasn't looking for Lane, but a lady. So we finally found each other. She took me to a mall in Lusaka to meet Lane and Aaron, and it was good to finally be with a familiar face.
Instead of making the 2-hour drive to Kabwe where I was staying, we decided to hang out at the mall for 7 hours to see if my luggage would come on the next flight that came in from Jo'burg. Lane had a vested interest now in my luggage as well. Aaron is from New Zealand and had his two best buds with him who were heading out the next day, so i hung out with 4 guys all day - 3 Kiwis and a Texan! They were lots of fun.
Even if the luggage came on the next flight, Jo'burg is known for having stuff stolen out of luggage, especially when it's been sitting around. But...Thank God...both my bags came on the next flight, untouched and intact. We were happy to see Lane's equipment.
For those of you that don't know, Lane Davis is from our church in Plano, Texas, and was in our small group which meets at our house every Thursday night. He is an amazing photographer, and is spending 9 months as a photo journalist for the organization for which I work, HOPE World Partnerships. Please take a look at his amazing pictures at www.ToTellAStory.org. He mentions the organization, Bright Hope World, which is the New Zealand-based headquarters for our organization (called "Hope" in the US).
I will be traveling for three weeks with Lane and also Kevin & Helen from New Zealand, who know all of our on-site partners and where we are going.
I made it smoothly on my next 10 hour all-night flight to South Africa. I only had one problem at the Johannesburg airport. When I went through passport control, something on the computer flagged my passport and they had to take me to the police office. For some reason the guy next to me and myself had a warrant out for our arrest from the same police station somewhere in South Africa for stealing an Avis rental car. Strangest thing. They kept asking us if we knew each other. He was from Tunizia and I was from Texas. Finally, they just let us go because they couldn't figure it out. The man and I exchanged email addresses just in case we had other issues traveling throughout Africa.
So I was escorted back to the passport checking area and toward my gate and I arrived there about 20 minutes before the flight. In all the chaos, I had missed the spot where I was to receive a boarding pass. So they said that check-in for the flight was closed. But thankfully, he made a couple of phone calls and then hand-wrote me a boarding pass on a scratch piece of paper. I took a bus to the tarmac and when I went up the stairs to my South African airplane, they asked for my boarding pass. I reluctantly handed her my scribbled paper, and she just looked at me like i was crazy and said, "This is not acceptable!" I told her it is what the guy gave me, and she shook her head and said she would have to make some calls. I survived my third hurdle and they let me on the plane. Then a few hours later I was in Zambia...about noon on Thursday. Finally here!
Oh, but no luggage! And one of my suitcases was filled with about $3000 worth of camera equipment for our friend, Lane.
Lane and Aaron were late because of traffic, but a lady they knew happen to be at the airport picking up some other people. So, they asked her to find me. Then, I turned on my phone to find that I wasn't looking for Lane, but a lady. So we finally found each other. She took me to a mall in Lusaka to meet Lane and Aaron, and it was good to finally be with a familiar face.
Instead of making the 2-hour drive to Kabwe where I was staying, we decided to hang out at the mall for 7 hours to see if my luggage would come on the next flight that came in from Jo'burg. Lane had a vested interest now in my luggage as well. Aaron is from New Zealand and had his two best buds with him who were heading out the next day, so i hung out with 4 guys all day - 3 Kiwis and a Texan! They were lots of fun.
Even if the luggage came on the next flight, Jo'burg is known for having stuff stolen out of luggage, especially when it's been sitting around. But...Thank God...both my bags came on the next flight, untouched and intact. We were happy to see Lane's equipment.
For those of you that don't know, Lane Davis is from our church in Plano, Texas, and was in our small group which meets at our house every Thursday night. He is an amazing photographer, and is spending 9 months as a photo journalist for the organization for which I work, HOPE World Partnerships. Please take a look at his amazing pictures at www.ToTellAStory.org. He mentions the organization, Bright Hope World, which is the New Zealand-based headquarters for our organization (called "Hope" in the US).
I will be traveling for three weeks with Lane and also Kevin & Helen from New Zealand, who know all of our on-site partners and where we are going.
Monday, August 2, 2010
1. Off to Africa...
My last trip of the year is to three countries in Africa. Just trying to learn more about our partnerships before coming home to encourage people in the US to partner with these leaders who need resourcing. In the future, I should be just traveling about once a summer to stay current on all our projects. Can't wait until the girls are old enough to go with me.
If you are on Facebook, my personal page has a 2-part video on the India and Thailand trip. I also describe in the video what our organization does. So if you are curious...go ahead.
I will be headed to Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. I will travel with Kevin & Helen from NZ and Lane from Dallas who is already there. Lane is spending 9 months traveling as a photo journalist for our organization to capture the stories of our partners. For two years, he has been in our small group of young adults who meet at our house every Thursday night. So he is a good friend. He has been growing this crazy long beard while there, so I don't think I will recognize him. I hope he doesn't scare me! By the way, his photos of Africa are amazing. Check them out at ToTellAStory.com
Thanks for praying for my safety and health. I really want to be able to meet all our partners!
I will not have Internet a whole lot in Africa like I did last trip, but will update when I can!
Good bye for now.
If you are on Facebook, my personal page has a 2-part video on the India and Thailand trip. I also describe in the video what our organization does. So if you are curious...go ahead.
I will be headed to Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. I will travel with Kevin & Helen from NZ and Lane from Dallas who is already there. Lane is spending 9 months traveling as a photo journalist for our organization to capture the stories of our partners. For two years, he has been in our small group of young adults who meet at our house every Thursday night. So he is a good friend. He has been growing this crazy long beard while there, so I don't think I will recognize him. I hope he doesn't scare me! By the way, his photos of Africa are amazing. Check them out at ToTellAStory.com
Thanks for praying for my safety and health. I really want to be able to meet all our partners!
I will not have Internet a whole lot in Africa like I did last trip, but will update when I can!
Good bye for now.
Friday, April 30, 2010
The Long Trip Home
This will be the last blog for this trip. Thanks so much for your prayers. Linda and I feel so much more prepared to be advocates for the people in India and Thailand now that we have seen it all firsthand. We got a little glimpse of how God sees these people. So many of them cannot help themselves out of poverty without our resources. They are willing but have no means.
Well, here is one last story. We decided to leave Bangkok early due to the political unrest there and the fact that we couldn't see some of our partnerships anyway. All flights were overbooked until May 7th, so we thought there was a slim chance of changing flights. However, we were able to slide in on a British Airways flight to London for Wednesday night. We were booked for just after midnight and got on the airplane, excited to be leaving town. We started full speed down the runway only to come to a screeching halt halfway down. After sitting on the tarmac for a little while, we were informed that our flight was cancelled for the night. We were deplaned onto a bus and shuttled back into the terminal at 1:30 am. The next part got pretty funny....talk about the blind leading the blind! First of all, Bangkok has a gigantic and beautiful modern airport, but in the middle of the night, there aren't a lot of staff around. So 300+ people get off our plane and start walking through the terminal to get our luggage. We walked all the way to the other end of the airport to find out we weren't in the right place. So we proceeded to walk all the way back to where we started and up a few floors to get our passport stamps cancelled. Then we walked all the way back to the other end again to get our luggage. Imagine 300 people marching back and forth through this huge empty airport in the middle of the night. It was quite a sight!
So, we finally exited the airport 3 hours later at 4:30 am. Then we had to wait for a bus to take us all to a hotel in which British Airways was putting us up until our airplane was fixed. Keep in mind that we were trying to get out of Bangkok because of riots, shootings, and bombings in downtown. So instead of being out of town at the remote location of the airport, the bus drives us right back into the city... ironic! You would think we'd stay somewhere close to the airport, but no, they drove us all in 6 buses for one hour! So, we showed up at the "Miracle Hotel" at 5:30 am. We ate breakfast and went straight to bed. There was one single letter from BA that was being literally "passed around" which said we would be flying out at midnight. But no word on when we would leave the hotel or anything else. We were all laughing as we were herded around like a bunch of lost sheep. We formed quite a community with this group of people.
By the time we woke up at 2pm, they had slid a copy of that one letter under our door, which still didn't tell us when or how we got to the airport. So, we went to the lobby to find that there was a bus sign-up sheet in half-hour intervals starting at 7pm. So we took a couple of really long showers and ate dinner and checked out of the hotel to board Bus #1. I do have to admit the free hotel was very nice and we had a full banquet feast for each meal. I kept waiting for the keynote speaker!
Long story short, we did board the plane around midnight on Thursday for London... and it actually took off this time! A call to American Airlines informed us that we couldn't get on a flight from London to Dallas, except the one we were already on for Sunday morning... but I don't accept "no" very easily. We got off the plane and went straight to the connections desk and got a ticket to Dallas for no charge. We then went back to passport control, checked out of the airport, got our luggage, and then checked back in at the departure desk. When we got boarding passes, we knew we were set! We got home on Friday afternoon... Thank God! Long trip home, but two days earlier than planned which was nice.
Well, we survived the scary food, the limited clean water, the New Zealand humor (Kevin, John, and Roger), the malaria Mosquitos, the sleeping on the floor under mosquito nets, the occasional bucket showers, the brushing teeth with water bottles, the stand-up toilets in the out-houses, the washing our hands with antibacterial gel and our bodies with baby wipes, the ridiculously long flights and car rides, the 105 degree humid heat, and all the smells and sights. It was worth every minute to meet the wonderful people of India and Thailand. God created all of us and in God's economy, those with resources should be helping those without. Whether it is sharing the love and message of Jesus or making a way out of poverty, HOPE exists "to give hope and dignity to those living on less than a dollar a day." Please join us in this endeavor!
If you are interested in helping HOPE World Partnerships, please visit our website for contact information: www.HOPEworldpartnerships.org. This month, we plan to update the "Partnerships" page with detailed descriptions of our unfunded partnerships. We also need help with La Mai Coffee sales and distribution, HOPE website design, video production, and spreading the word about projects. If you have any volunteer time to give, please contact us.
Thanks again for following our adventures and praying for us.
God bless,
Susy & Linda
Well, here is one last story. We decided to leave Bangkok early due to the political unrest there and the fact that we couldn't see some of our partnerships anyway. All flights were overbooked until May 7th, so we thought there was a slim chance of changing flights. However, we were able to slide in on a British Airways flight to London for Wednesday night. We were booked for just after midnight and got on the airplane, excited to be leaving town. We started full speed down the runway only to come to a screeching halt halfway down. After sitting on the tarmac for a little while, we were informed that our flight was cancelled for the night. We were deplaned onto a bus and shuttled back into the terminal at 1:30 am. The next part got pretty funny....talk about the blind leading the blind! First of all, Bangkok has a gigantic and beautiful modern airport, but in the middle of the night, there aren't a lot of staff around. So 300+ people get off our plane and start walking through the terminal to get our luggage. We walked all the way to the other end of the airport to find out we weren't in the right place. So we proceeded to walk all the way back to where we started and up a few floors to get our passport stamps cancelled. Then we walked all the way back to the other end again to get our luggage. Imagine 300 people marching back and forth through this huge empty airport in the middle of the night. It was quite a sight!
So, we finally exited the airport 3 hours later at 4:30 am. Then we had to wait for a bus to take us all to a hotel in which British Airways was putting us up until our airplane was fixed. Keep in mind that we were trying to get out of Bangkok because of riots, shootings, and bombings in downtown. So instead of being out of town at the remote location of the airport, the bus drives us right back into the city... ironic! You would think we'd stay somewhere close to the airport, but no, they drove us all in 6 buses for one hour! So, we showed up at the "Miracle Hotel" at 5:30 am. We ate breakfast and went straight to bed. There was one single letter from BA that was being literally "passed around" which said we would be flying out at midnight. But no word on when we would leave the hotel or anything else. We were all laughing as we were herded around like a bunch of lost sheep. We formed quite a community with this group of people.
By the time we woke up at 2pm, they had slid a copy of that one letter under our door, which still didn't tell us when or how we got to the airport. So, we went to the lobby to find that there was a bus sign-up sheet in half-hour intervals starting at 7pm. So we took a couple of really long showers and ate dinner and checked out of the hotel to board Bus #1. I do have to admit the free hotel was very nice and we had a full banquet feast for each meal. I kept waiting for the keynote speaker!
Long story short, we did board the plane around midnight on Thursday for London... and it actually took off this time! A call to American Airlines informed us that we couldn't get on a flight from London to Dallas, except the one we were already on for Sunday morning... but I don't accept "no" very easily. We got off the plane and went straight to the connections desk and got a ticket to Dallas for no charge. We then went back to passport control, checked out of the airport, got our luggage, and then checked back in at the departure desk. When we got boarding passes, we knew we were set! We got home on Friday afternoon... Thank God! Long trip home, but two days earlier than planned which was nice.
Well, we survived the scary food, the limited clean water, the New Zealand humor (Kevin, John, and Roger), the malaria Mosquitos, the sleeping on the floor under mosquito nets, the occasional bucket showers, the brushing teeth with water bottles, the stand-up toilets in the out-houses, the washing our hands with antibacterial gel and our bodies with baby wipes, the ridiculously long flights and car rides, the 105 degree humid heat, and all the smells and sights. It was worth every minute to meet the wonderful people of India and Thailand. God created all of us and in God's economy, those with resources should be helping those without. Whether it is sharing the love and message of Jesus or making a way out of poverty, HOPE exists "to give hope and dignity to those living on less than a dollar a day." Please join us in this endeavor!
If you are interested in helping HOPE World Partnerships, please visit our website for contact information: www.HOPEworldpartnerships.org. This month, we plan to update the "Partnerships" page with detailed descriptions of our unfunded partnerships. We also need help with La Mai Coffee sales and distribution, HOPE website design, video production, and spreading the word about projects. If you have any volunteer time to give, please contact us.
Thanks again for following our adventures and praying for us.
God bless,
Susy & Linda
Monday, April 26, 2010
Four-Wheel Drive Trip
People pay big bucks for the 4-wheel driving trips we've been on in the last few days. We had our special tour guide, Mike Mann from ITDP, who by the way is a very impressive driver!
First of all, the trip to the Mahojo Village was a five-hour highway drive, a one-hour country road drive, a half-hour on a dirt road, and then an absolutely insane one-hour four-wheeling trip. This is what I would call "The Boonies". The villagers live in wood and thatch huts. They weave their own clothing. They live quite primitively.
On vacation, I have always avoided the Jeep trips on the mountain trails. I don't find being a nervous wreck very fun. However, these villages have only one entrance, so I didn't have a choice this time. The first uncomfortable part is that I sat behind the driver of the pick-up truck with my knees crammed in his back. Secondly, this was no ordinary dirt road. It was more like driving on solid rock that had foot-deep ruts and speed bumps all over it. So the driver had to stay out of the ruts and we bounced all over the backseat. Then occasionally we would get to a bend with a 300 foot drop off to one side where the trail wasn't wide enough for the truck. So some villagers had put some tree limbs across the outside edge of the trail so one set of your tires could ride on that part. As we went across, you could hear the limbs cracking underneath us...fun! Another area had completely washed out and a bridge of logs laying across the chasm acted as a bridge. On this one, you had to get one side of tires on each log and cross very cautiously. Needless to say, our driver had us get out of the car before we crossed that one, so he wouldn't have the burden of killing us if he didn't make it. Even walking across was a little harrowing.
At some point in our adventures, Linda looked at me and said "people pay big bucks for these kind of rides!" From then on, I enjoyed my trip so much better! Mike was an incredible driver which made me feel very safe and we laughed a whole lot.
First of all, the trip to the Mahojo Village was a five-hour highway drive, a one-hour country road drive, a half-hour on a dirt road, and then an absolutely insane one-hour four-wheeling trip. This is what I would call "The Boonies". The villagers live in wood and thatch huts. They weave their own clothing. They live quite primitively.
On vacation, I have always avoided the Jeep trips on the mountain trails. I don't find being a nervous wreck very fun. However, these villages have only one entrance, so I didn't have a choice this time. The first uncomfortable part is that I sat behind the driver of the pick-up truck with my knees crammed in his back. Secondly, this was no ordinary dirt road. It was more like driving on solid rock that had foot-deep ruts and speed bumps all over it. So the driver had to stay out of the ruts and we bounced all over the backseat. Then occasionally we would get to a bend with a 300 foot drop off to one side where the trail wasn't wide enough for the truck. So some villagers had put some tree limbs across the outside edge of the trail so one set of your tires could ride on that part. As we went across, you could hear the limbs cracking underneath us...fun! Another area had completely washed out and a bridge of logs laying across the chasm acted as a bridge. On this one, you had to get one side of tires on each log and cross very cautiously. Needless to say, our driver had us get out of the car before we crossed that one, so he wouldn't have the burden of killing us if he didn't make it. Even walking across was a little harrowing.
At some point in our adventures, Linda looked at me and said "people pay big bucks for these kind of rides!" From then on, I enjoyed my trip so much better! Mike was an incredible driver which made me feel very safe and we laughed a whole lot.
Coffee
In our time near Chiang Mai, we have and will be visiting 4 villages in the bush. In these villages live the Karen, Lahu, and Akha tribes. Led by Mike Mann, the Integrated Tribal Development Programme (ITDP) has brought clean water to 250 villages across Northern Thailand. Many of these villages have also been given household toilets, electricity, schools, medical clinics, churches, and been taught some sort of agriculture to help them become self-sustaining. All of these projects require total buy-in by the villagers. They have to do most of the construction work and sometimes even have to pay back a loan for something that's been given to them, like a couple of water buffaloes.
In the hill villages we visited, coffee is being grown in the woods (shade-grown coffee). It was pretty exciting to touch the actual coffee plants that are being made into La Mai coffee. We learned that one coffee plant will yield only 1 lb of coffee in it's finished form. The organization that Linda and I run in the states, HOPE World Partnerships, stores the coffee beans in Plano, Texas, roasts it at Mark's Brothers coffee in Plano, and sells it as La Mai coffee around the country. I can't take any credit for that part, though, because Linda has done the whole thing all by herself before I ever got involved.
Another cool thing we visited here is Starbucks Thailand. Not just because we got a little taste of home, but because they buy the same beans we do and sell it under their own branding as Muan Jai. It comes from the very same villages. ITDP has led Starbucks into helping the people in the hill villages. Starbucks helped to get one of the medical clinics built. By purchasing the village coffee at fair trade prices, the farmers can better take care of their families. But ITDP doesn't just buy coffee, they help with numerous physical and spiritual needs. It is a very holistic approach.
Finally, on the topic of coffee, we will be visiting the Lanna Cafe, serving ITDP's own brand of coffee. We wanted to see the whole coffee process from plant to cup. So tomorrow we will be seeing the end of the process: roasting and serving. Can't wait to drink a cup!
In the hill villages we visited, coffee is being grown in the woods (shade-grown coffee). It was pretty exciting to touch the actual coffee plants that are being made into La Mai coffee. We learned that one coffee plant will yield only 1 lb of coffee in it's finished form. The organization that Linda and I run in the states, HOPE World Partnerships, stores the coffee beans in Plano, Texas, roasts it at Mark's Brothers coffee in Plano, and sells it as La Mai coffee around the country. I can't take any credit for that part, though, because Linda has done the whole thing all by herself before I ever got involved.
Another cool thing we visited here is Starbucks Thailand. Not just because we got a little taste of home, but because they buy the same beans we do and sell it under their own branding as Muan Jai. It comes from the very same villages. ITDP has led Starbucks into helping the people in the hill villages. Starbucks helped to get one of the medical clinics built. By purchasing the village coffee at fair trade prices, the farmers can better take care of their families. But ITDP doesn't just buy coffee, they help with numerous physical and spiritual needs. It is a very holistic approach.
Finally, on the topic of coffee, we will be visiting the Lanna Cafe, serving ITDP's own brand of coffee. We wanted to see the whole coffee process from plant to cup. So tomorrow we will be seeing the end of the process: roasting and serving. Can't wait to drink a cup!
In Thailand with the Red Shirts
We left Calcutta at 2am Friday to fly to Bangkok. If you've watched the international news, you've noticed that there are protests going on in Bangkok by the Red Shirts who are trying to get their ousted Prime Minister, Thaksin, reinstated. He's currently exiled in Dubai for the time being. We flew north to Chiang Mai within a few hours, but we are scheduled to spend 4 days in Bangkok starting this coming Wednesday. So please pray for us!
I am writing this on Monday, and in the few days we have been in Thailand, the protests have escalated. There have been bombs in both Bangkok and Chiang Mai this morning. The place that we were to visit to see where they rescue the girls sold into prostitution (Rahab Center) is at the very intersection in Bangkok where the riots are. Consequently, the people living and working at Rahab have evacuated and moved out for a while. So Linda and I are quite disappointed that we won't see one of the projects we were looking forward to the most. For those of you who don't know what we do with the Rahab center, you can read our coffee website, www.LaMaiCoffee.org. 100% of the profit from our fair trade coffee sales goes to help the girls involved in the Rahab center.
We may go see some other projects around Bangkok instead, but please pray for our safety from Wednesday to Saturday.
I am writing this on Monday, and in the few days we have been in Thailand, the protests have escalated. There have been bombs in both Bangkok and Chiang Mai this morning. The place that we were to visit to see where they rescue the girls sold into prostitution (Rahab Center) is at the very intersection in Bangkok where the riots are. Consequently, the people living and working at Rahab have evacuated and moved out for a while. So Linda and I are quite disappointed that we won't see one of the projects we were looking forward to the most. For those of you who don't know what we do with the Rahab center, you can read our coffee website, www.LaMaiCoffee.org. 100% of the profit from our fair trade coffee sales goes to help the girls involved in the Rahab center.
We may go see some other projects around Bangkok instead, but please pray for our safety from Wednesday to Saturday.
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