Seems to me that everyone here complains about the heat. I must say it is a bit hot. Working under a tin roof is no pleasure but if you are like Toinette that need to work also under a tin roof with no ventilation, then things become a bit serious. She comes home every day exhausted to the bone. As for now we have the biggest holiday on the calendar, Khmer New Year. Yip our 3rd new year this year. Everybody is in town from far away provinces and it kicks off tomorrow. This year is a bit different but still it’s a big party. We are staying at home and I am making cars as much as I can. We are kinda boring, hahaha.
I had the privilege to go out with my good friend
Isaack Lutz from PCL. We went to give some plastic tarps to around 480 refugee
families. We visited 2 camps where people are staying from the border regions
that are still occupied by Thailand. These people will not go home in the near
future. Thailand is still on the border busy with their games.
These tarps will be use to cover the old ones as it is
already destroyed by the sun and rainy season is coming soon. Imagine
yourselves living in a makeshift tent with plastic tarp in this heat. Looking
into some of these tents you can see that people are trying their best to make
it a little like home. Like they say:””Your home is where your heart is””, but
I know that these people really want to go back to their real homes but that is
for another day. Sad story.
Seeing these beautiful soft hearted people in such need is not a joke. They are so happy for any help they can get. Sitting with them and share a few words makes the world a better place. At this specific camp I want to make them a small playground. The children just hang around there without school and any entertainment. Not a good place to be in, really.
I am thinking about home a lot these days as it is
raining in Namibia. It is always a special time when it rains and the only news
we get from home is all about the rain. So with the rainy season want to start
here.
Thank you for praying with us in this time. Pray for
people that are travelling as it is a lot of people moving around the country
and lots of people drink way too much.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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