How was your weekend? BonaResponds and PositiveRipples had a very productive one!
Locally, we built a wheelchair ramp for Ken and his family! Great work by the volunteers on Family weekend!
On Sunday, the trailer was cleaned out and the West End trails in Bobs’ Woods (to the West of the tennis Courts and maintenance garage were cut and trimmed! And thanks to the generous donation of a riding mower the work took just a fraction of the time!
In Les Cayes Haiti, donations to PositiveRipples made it possible to fix the 4th water well since the August 14th earthquake. I find it hard to believe, but we are told that almost 2000 households now depend on water from these wells. It is hard to imagine a more impactful program. Great job Porky!
Also near Les Cayes, Haiti, Rochelin and his team of about 16 volunteers completed clearing their 9th building. Simply wonderful (but very hot and difficult work). Your donations to PositiveRipples will keep them with the needed tools to accomplish this great work.
In Freetown Sierra Leone, Aminata purchased 70 trees that are expected to be planted this coming weekend (in conjunction with Francis Week on campus!). This is one of the cooler programs that I have been part of as she is buying the trees as a means of paying back a loan from PositiveRipples that was used to expand her inventory to include handbags and more clothes. Multiple wins!
Near Makeni Sierra Leone, Bangura and his friends raised money to pay for 9 students in school as part of his Birthday celebration. If you want to get them to 10, you can donate to PositiveRipples.org and just say that you want the money to go to school children in Sierra Leone.
Not a bad weekend! It was not perfect as we did have other requests (in Haiti, Sierra Leone, and Liberia that we didn’t have the funds for, and locally that we didn’t have the volunteers for), but a great weekend! Thank you to all who make it possible!
Remember, Bonaventure and Olean are not in the middle of no where, but in the middle of everywhere!
