Since our newsletter this round was focused on teaching, I thought I'd give a blog update on these kiddos. Hope turned 3 and is delightfully hilarious. She says funny things like calling Snickerdoodles "tickernoodles", and running around on those chubby little legs, imagining herself to be a fierce superhero. Then again, they all do that. They currently have constant imaginary stories and world happening, and there's a lot of dress-up, lego building, and imaginary battles in

We've chuckled recently when we have asked some of the students about their biggest challenges and found that frequently the answer is, "bride price." It seems like a funny thing to be a major challenge, but it is! Particularly for the tribes right around our area. Typically in cultures that have a tradition of bride price, a man hoping to marry a woman will pay her family a set payment in goods or cash in order to win her as a bride. That's true here too, and elsewhere on th