We should be coming to the tail end of the rainy season soon but we are experiencing fantastic storms regularly still in the evenings and at night. Our beaches all along Liberia are suffering a plague of rather smelly seaweed.
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| A plague of seaweed along ELWA beach |
The Liberians say they have never seen anything like it and we believe that it may be the result of exploration for offshore oil! Hope it will improve as it has made swimming in the sea impossible. We hope they find oil too as Liberia could certainly do with the income. Liberia is the third poorest country in the world.
The best news is that Samaritan’s Purse has agreed formally and in writing now to the funding for the new 80 bed hospital! The staff at ELWA are delighted as the old hospital is now on its last legs. We are looking forward to new opportunities with this new building to develop our staff further.
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| Site of the ELWA Hospital from the present one. |
The presidential elections on take place on the 11th October and everyyone is campaigning around Monrovia. Everyone is hoping and and praying for peaceful elections. Schools have closed for this period of time to keep the children safe. Monrovia Bible College, where Jenny is about to start teaching the degree students who are training to be teachers, has postponed the start of term until the beginning of November.
I had to smile at the seaweed - Worthing used to get tons of the stuff each year too! It does make a wonderful fertiliser - if you collect it for the garden - or, I guess, for crops too? And yes, once the flies get to it, it is horribly smelly!!
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