Sunday, August 19 - Gene & Steph Flewelling

Today is Sunday.  Team Four (Tom, Wayne, Mike, Darrell, Jonathan, Isaac, Oliver) left for Bujumbura around noon.  Their flight leaves for Brussels at 8:05PM.  That leaves six of us here for one more week to wrap things up.  Over the past couple days we have continued to monitor the operation of the PowerPac and have been compiling O&M manuals and documents.  The PowerPac has been performing flawlessly now that the settings have been fine tuned.  On Friday, the hospital experienced a "new reality"; with the national power grid off all morning, there wasn't even a "blip" on the hospital lights as they performed surgeries and other critical functions.

Friday afternoon Collins Muiruri, engineer with Africa Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF), traveled to Kibuye from Nairobi, Kenya to look at our PowerPac and to meet with us.  AMHF was a major financial contributor for the installation of this electrical system.  Collins was very impressed and expressed a desire to partner with us for the installation of similar systems in other African countries.  What a pleasure it was to get to know Collins.  We're reminded again how small the world is.  Collins is a graduate of Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, PA a school in our "backyard" and with whom we've partnered on Senior engineering projects.

We truly enjoyed a day of relaxation today.  After having lunch with a missionary family, we took a several mile hike.  Enjoy some of the photos of that hike below.


Collins Muiruri with Tom
Piper Sund

Our team enjoying a hike (l to r, Deb, Jimmy, Matt, Steph, Gene, Don)

Panoramic view from on top of one of the hills

The children love to follow us...

...and look at themselves on our phones/cameras

Sunday market in Kibuye



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