Dear friends,
The long 'summer' holidays are over again ! It was a pleasantly busy time together with all our Foodstep kids.
Some went to sports camp, others went to work in our garden. Joel taught some kids how to make fun patterns and aprons. While our choir and musicians rehearsed their own work and sang their lungs out at many church services. How much they enjoyed the swimming lessons in ISU. Lovely to see the kids so happy and delighted!
We are happy to have visitors again in Foodstep, who keep bringing us goodies from Belgium and the Netherlands. Thanks for that! Without you, we would be pretty barren.
There were also quite a few visitors who stayed a while longer. They gave first aid lessons with 14 students obtaining their certificates. Our oldest boys were treated to a day out with real pizza!
A pilot from KLM brought 2 bikes and taught our teenagers how to assemble and maintain a bike.
Sweet people came to cook for the kids. Others were doing odd jobs. A friend is teaching them how to tie jewellery.
Some kids took a course and started a new project, our own Foodstep Mushroom farm!
Building our own grow house, firing, manure, .... unbelievable!
In short, we did not sit still.
And now everyone is back at school. 8 different schools! Some had such great results that their names were mentioned in the newspaper and so they also deserve scholarships. Our Christoph was even selected to join the famous gym (many Olympic marathon runners also train there) in football. How proud we are! He is not as tall as Lukaku, but plays like the best.
Packed and packed, every child went back to school. Our kindergarten class, with a new wonderful teacher, also started. We hope to get some rest now.
Nevertheless, the construction work does continue. For instance, we built a beautiful wall at our dining hall. Did some buildings inside get a lick of paint. And our own well gives us fresh water every day. The fence was also installed.
Projects like solar panels, refurbishing all sanitary facilities, further finishing our guesthouses, breeding rabbits and chickens,.... are on our wish list.
So we continue with cheerful courage!
Thank you for standing beside us. Praying for us. And support our Foodstep project!
Warm greetings from all of us.
Nathalie Seliffet
