In Mkongamira, the Benesi’s home has come to feel just like that, like a central office.  People congregate there all the time.  In the mornings, afternoons and evenings, the doors are always opened.  It’s pretty incredible.  This past week, we saw secondary students sitting on a bamboo mat outside of the house with their advisor, Kathy, and Mr. Benesi, writing thank you letters to their sponsors who pay for their school fees.  High school here is not free, and these kids would not be going to school if not for the support of their sponsors.  So many of them wrote touching notes explaining their gratitude.  Later in the week, the chief of the village came by for breakfast to talk to Mr. Benesi.  This, I learned, was in regards to the new project they are starting, the project to bring pigs to the farm.  And one afternoon Blessings and Raphael stopped by to visit and give Mama a notebook in which she would help keep track of materials that are donated from Goods For Good.  Business is always bustling at our little village home, bringing farmers, teachers, buyers, friends and prominent figures in the village to talk with our family who does so much not only to sustain their own family but to sustain this village as well.

High School Students, outside our home in the village, writing those beautiful thank you notes.