We receive messages from Mokicco from Carl-Erik and place them here to keep you informed of their developments.
Especially in April but also in May there was a lot of rain here in Tanzania. It was rain period but more than rain period – dag after day, lots of rain. Also in our house water began to come in from a soil filled with water. But that was nothing to mention when we heard about what happened to poor people in their houses of clay. To find water on the floor every morning – imagine to wake up and walk and slip in clay the first thing you are doing a new day. Alarm calls came to us from here and there about houses which almost were falling down because of the rain.
So we build and we build and we build houses for poor people, mostly widows with grand children –last week our 32nd house was completed. The cost to build a house with two rooms is only ca. 1.500 USD:- so with 32 houses we have built up to now for about 50.000 USD. But Overa and I think like that: the houses will stand there – longer than our own lifetime. The houses proclaim for new generations about what Christian social work can do. We have also given out money to microprojekts – start a small shop, get a goat etc. – but there we have noticed that more than half of these projects never succeed. One may get money to e.g. get a pig but after that one has no money to get food for the pig, who gets thin and later has to be slaughtered. So to build houses we feel is more important and more real.
Last week we got a new alarm call from a family, living in the suburbs of Moshi town. The family of five persons live in two rented rooms, where there in fact is real danger that a wall might fall over them during the night and perhaps kill them. You can see on the picture. They now want to build their own house in another place and they have asked us to help them do it.
When one has worked as long as we have done in MOKICCO (since 2006) you find after some time the main lines to work on. For MOKICCO the future main work will be:
1. The family homes – to give orphan children new, good homes for life.
2. Kindergarten (today we have two).
3. Giving out food in schools (today in one school, from July 1 in three schools).
4. Houses for poor and sick, predominantly widows.
We are so glad, so happy in what we are doing. We would like to share that joy and happiness with you good and faithful friends. Good times are ahead!
Carl-Erik
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