ET - "phone home"

Yeaaahh.. after half an hour of trying to set up a connection, Tim got through to Brigitte's mobile phone today, around noon. Brigitte was standing in front of the school, picking up her kiddos Yael and 'little" Bram (guess who he's named after... ;-). Anyhow.. They're having a BLAST (if you can say so about a frozen river trek, hehe), Arno has already taken more than 800 photos, Tim more than 30 film shots. Tim just kept on saying:

Bok (Brigitte's nick name)! You just cannot imagine how beautiful it is, it's overwhelming, so much more impressive than what we had imagined, it beats anything that I've seen and done, the people are so friendly, so warm.. They've been on the "Tchaddar" now for 3 days and were setting up camp, it was slowly getting dark. Still 6 more days on the ice, Brigitte believed hearing on the background of an extremely bad line/connection.. It is ccccoooooolllllldddd, bbbbbrrrrrrrrrr... but doable. There'll be no phonecall tomorrow, since they'll be deep down in a gorge, but they'll try again the day after.

Thank god there was a connection... it sure made mine and Brigittes day!

There are english/french updates you should read, on the site of Maiso l'Arc en Ciel and on their Facebook page, with photos, and a warm personal letter from Danielle and her husband Reid, thanking everybody involved in the support of the orphanage. It includes a personal mention of me and Bram and our project Tenebo (which is all of you and your support!)... so sweet. Their daily perilous situation is tough, with refugee camps in terrible conditions, all the street children, the help needed and not getting. But it is improving, day by day. I admire their courage and discipline.

So boys and girls.. keep it up and stay tuned, xxx Jenny