I will be flying to Nigeria on April 12th on Lufthansa. I will arrive in Abuja on the 13th and spend the night there. Plan to catch a flight down to Yola the next day. Hopefully, I will be able to stay in the mission house on the LCCN Jimeta Compound that has the Water Program office in it.
The house I have stayed in has been converted to an office for the Development Director for Mission Afrika (Danish Lutheran Church mission organization). The house I will be staying in is a little newer and larger. It was the house the Elizabeth Holtegaard lived in. It has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a large living/dinning room, a kitchen and some storage rooms. I am hoping the Yakubu Bulama will be able to get my bed out of the other house and moved into the back bedroom. The house does not have running water. Last year it did not have electricity. The wires had been ripped down and not repaired. I am hoping they are repaired by now. If not I may have to invest a few bucks and have it repaired.
I will be there almost 6 weeks. I hope to assist on a couple water projects, assist in the final design of the proposed training center at Demsa (Global Health Ministries project), coordinate the completion of the Demsa Health Referral Center renovation project (Lutheran Partners for Global Ministry), and work with the Deaf Church (Citizens Into Action). If I am able, I want to visit the new Bishop of the Gongola Diocese and drive to the south end of Adamawa State to visit the North end of the Gashaka National Game Preserve.
This was the bedroom I stayed in in 2009. I am not sure where if the bed is still there. Just outside the window on the right is a concrete porch and a round mud hut. There is a family living on the porch, in the round house and in a back room connected to the back of the house. This provides an extra layer of security. However, it less private and harder to sleep in on Saturday.
The house I have stayed in has been converted to an office for the Development Director for Mission Afrika (Danish Lutheran Church mission organization). The house I will be staying in is a little newer and larger. It was the house the Elizabeth Holtegaard lived in. It has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a large living/dinning room, a kitchen and some storage rooms. I am hoping the Yakubu Bulama will be able to get my bed out of the other house and moved into the back bedroom. The house does not have running water. Last year it did not have electricity. The wires had been ripped down and not repaired. I am hoping they are repaired by now. If not I may have to invest a few bucks and have it repaired.
I will be there almost 6 weeks. I hope to assist on a couple water projects, assist in the final design of the proposed training center at Demsa (Global Health Ministries project), coordinate the completion of the Demsa Health Referral Center renovation project (Lutheran Partners for Global Ministry), and work with the Deaf Church (Citizens Into Action). If I am able, I want to visit the new Bishop of the Gongola Diocese and drive to the south end of Adamawa State to visit the North end of the Gashaka National Game Preserve.
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