We've spent the last three days in the village of Gamadubu (sounds like Hom-a-dubu). Anyways, Jess and Ana have been helping a woman named Shirley feed ~130 children every Saturday, and pay for their schooling Mon-Friday. It's a really neat program, and they've got some really great plans for 'The Project' in the future. This morning (Sunday) some folks from Gaborone came to donate blankets... but only 70... so from the 130, the most 'at risk' children received blankets first... beginning with HIV/AIDs children, then orphans, then children whose parents don't take very good of them... and so on. (ps, blankets because it's been getting down in the 40s at night... it's winter here). While it was unfortunate that the people donating blankets didn't bring enough, 70 children will be sleeping warm tonight.
In this picture you can see the first children in line to receive blankets (far right, back)...
(what are Sam and Ana doing?)
And on a funny note, when the folks showed up to give out blankets, all the children lined up and sang the song 'God is Good to Me' for about 2 minutes... and this yellow piece of paper is what was attached to each of blankets... :) 
(God is good to me, God is good to me, He holds me stead and holds my hand, God is good to me)
Anyways, tonight we're catching a train to Francistown, and from there taking a taxi into Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is going through some awful times right now-- to get the run down, click here and read what's up on the International Crisis Group's website
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