Liberia pictures

We saw many dip wells.  This one had a plant growing inside of it.

The chair lady is on the left, Elder Teerlink, Jim, Sister Teerlink, and Morris, site monitor and assistant project manager.

We were dismayed to note that LDSC was etched into this very old well.  It was long before our time, but obviously a very poorly constructed one.  We have much better contractors now, thankfully.

Peppers drying on a corrugated iron sheet.

These were like donut holes and they smelled very good.

A young girl washing clothes for her mother.

This girl was making peanut butter.  I have never seen this before

This local community was doing their part in keeping their community clean by providing sacks so that people could collect their garbage and put it in this pile.  Then a small vehicle of some kind picks it up and delivers it to the main garbage collection point.  They thought a German concern was the NGO taking care of the trucks and dumpsters for Liberia.

Elder Teerlink and Morris goofing off on the little vehicle that came to fetch the garbage bags.  Garbage is such a huge problem in third world countries.

You rarely get to have an American mattress in Liberia, so it was even more interesting that someone had one here in this rural and poor area!

A few children do swim, although they said that some do drown; these children had no problem swimming in the water.  It was also where they were collecting water, we hope not for drinking as this is also a bathing and clothes washing area.  Note the garbage by the shore on the right of the picture.

Looking down the river towards the road.  Note the large pile of garbage.

This is the 'water' that they were getting from their dip well.  As you can see, it is rather muddy!  They put it in these bags to strain it so that the water at least can be used for things such as washing.

This is the water that they srained out of that mud.

This little girl was hilarious--for some reason she kept shaking her finger at us as if to scold us.  The look on her face was so cute and the other children seemed to follow her lead.  We have no idea what it was all about, unless her mother scolds her a lot too...adorable!

We ran across this group of boys playing marbles.  Jim tried his hand at it again but has 'lost his touch'.  He said he used to be quite the champion.  But the marbles were too small for his too-big fingers.  He was used to large 'shooters'.  

We finally were able to use the pool.  It is like a giant lap pool with the same depth.  We were the only ones in the pool, which is not surprising since most Africans do not swim.  It was like a bathtub and so refreshing after a very long, hot and humid day!