My mother is heading back over to Africa this Sunday. I think this time she'll do a two week stint there and if she likes the place she's going - she'll probably stay there for a few months maybe even up until the summer.

She had visited a village there and they were trying to teach the elders how to read and write but they lacked reading glasses. so my mother came back here, and bought 20 pairs of glasses then got a donation from someone for another 60 pairs. so now these people in a village so poor they have to use newspapers for toilet paper...will at least have the opportunity to learn or to read (b/c they will be able to see) and write for the first time.

This time she'll be helping out in a juvi detention center - which honestly makes me a little nervous...she's a little too trusting sometimes and in Africa...you can't be that trusting, she knows this and told me this but still...so I'm slightly nervous about this one. but she's doing what she wants to do, what she thinks she wants to do...help people.