CVM is a small but ambitious organization. They conduct vocational training in the areas of tailoring and carpentry, they started a preschool program for orphans and disadvantaged children, and they have a group of widows that they work with.
They have also organized community groups throughout the district. These groups have been brought together to help each other and assist the disadvantaged children that live among them, but the catalyst for organizing these groups came from a partnership with Heifer International. These groups were trained by the local gov't in better husbandry practices and then received cows from Heifer Int'l. Heifer Int'l donated a limited amount of cows so many of the groups are still waiting to receive a cow... and most of the groups are made up of over 30 families.
We really enjoyed our time in Kayanga and are looking forward to the continued growth in our relationship with CVM!!
Here are a few pic's from our time with Ps John and the CVM family...
Meet Pastor John! One of the funnest easy going guys in all Tanzania! ...and he's a visionary!
This is the carpentry training center for CVM... small space with a big vision!
The tailoring shop for CVM. Forty students have graduated from their tailoring program.
This small simple structure is where the preschool is conducted. These are few orphans and widows greeting us with a song and dance.
Meeting with one of the community groups.
This is a hefeir that was given to the group above through our Know.Think.Act program. A youth group from TN started an action group and raised money.
I got the honor of helping Ps John with a baptism service. It was a little bit different from how we do it in America. They damed up a stream down in a valley.
I'm not a big fan of being in water where I can't see what's going on below the surface, so I can only image the courage it took for those who were getting submerged!
A picture of some crazy mzungus that Ps John has on the wall in his office.
26 oranges, 40 tangerines, 6 papayas, 12 sodas, 4 eggs, 1 bag of coffee, 26 tomatoes, 1 bag of 70 strange bad tasting orange things, 1 bag of roasted peanuts, a hand woven grass fiber tea set, 2 hand woven grass fiber pot pads, and a massive jack fruit! We received all these gifts in one day!
This was taken as we were headed out across Lake Victoria. Mwanza and it's rocks... looked like something out of Gulliver's Travels! This pic doesn't do it justice!!
Compassion = Action,
-Travis
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