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 Got to love those "donkeys" that carry all the cargo and people...the four legged one and the one with wings. The solar panels being put on the top of the invertor house Mud glorious mud unless you are trying to get a plane off the ground. The work team Simon hard at it with the man from the solar panel company trying to use every available moment to get the job done in time. Simon said by the time they got back to Kajjansi Scotty needed a serious bath. Beautiful South Sudan taken from the top of a mast.

Catch up

I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted something on our blog.  This month seemed to go by at top speed.  It started out with Joshua's 9th birthday on the 1 May and then tomorrow will be Zara's 7th birthday.  We had a joint birthday party for them last weekend with some friends.  There was a total of 16 children and 10 adults.  Wow it was full on but the kids had fun with a BBQ, cakes, sweets and games which included water surprisingly enough. Simon was away this month for a couple of nights with Aid Sudan.  He travelled to a place called Nasir which is about 4.5 flight hours one way.  It is in the middle of nowhere and very much a"village".  Simon was helping the teams with an invertor system so that they could power the radio for broadcasting chr*stian programmes.  It was a busy time for the team to get it all done so long hours were put in but were very satisfied when everything was accomplished.  They had hoped to c...

Hangar Dedication

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The ground being prepared for the hangar structure to go up Delivery of the hangar in containers....its amazing that this structure fit in a few containers...glad I wasn't the one packing it. More ground preparation.... Finally a structure a structure with a back wall and sliding doors being assembled Offices being constructed  A view of the new hangar and the old hangar... The celebrations about to commence with the MAF US team working on a plane at the same time :) Could this be a future pilot from MAF....one our wee "MAF kids" This post was supposed to be available last week but we have had some internet/connection issues.  Not all the photos uploaded and it took almost 24 hours to upload these ones :)  Anyway glad it has worked now. Two weeks ago we had the dedication of our new MAF Hangar.  It was a challenging project from the beginning to the end but we are glad to see it up and in use now...