I'm finally FULLY recovered from Malaria, Typhoid, and black water fever... So, I'm leaving Uganda on Friday for my home sweet home, Congo. I seriously love the people. The good people are the best people I've ever met (and the bad are the worst... And I try not to meet them, here is why).
This is south of where I'll be with my Pygmy family in the forest in Beni, Congo... Yesterday, over 20 people were hacked up by machetes. Some of the women and children were raped before hand and then beheaded.
BBC reports "The attacks took place near the town of Beni, which is about 250km (150 miles) north of Goma.
The youngest victim is thought to have been only a few months old," the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Monusco) said.
Three girls appear to have been raped and then beheaded. A child's dismembered body is said to have been found in a tree, in the village of Musuku, the statement said."
Anyways... For those following my journey, I'm asking for prayers and positive thoughts as I head back. Not for me, but this country. This is only one of the many things going on in Eastern Congo... The biggest rebel group we thought came to peace terms with the government has really been regrouping, recruiting, and reloading in neighboring Uganda and Rwanda. As hopeless as a situation as it seems to an OUTSIDER, I see people with MORE than just a glimmer of hope in their eyes. I see people filled with such an awesome spirit, their love is contagious, and they BELIEVE in a better tomorrow.
We are maybe going to "up" our goal of 12 water wells to 24! Taking clean water where it has NEVER been before! 12 for the former slave tribes of Pygmies, 12 for the former 12 slavemasters. Address and bless. Address the crazy need of the region, bless both sides. The "good" and the "bad." Game-changing, LIFE-SAVER!
Since I've been gone my team has plugged away at follow ups and they have secured 247 acres (100 acres) of land that is now PYGMY LAND! They had been kicked off this land, it was stolen from them, then they were enslaved, now peaceful negotiations have led to us gaining the land, and hopefully 100+ pygmies moved onto the land.
And we are building them 30+ earth bag homes that we may make look like a hobbit house from "The Shire." We are also teaching them the skills to replicate both the water well drilling system (water4.org) and the home building (cal-earth.org)
Anyways... Random updates!
