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I arrived in Kigali, Rwanda Sunday at 7pm…1pm Toronto time with the Courage Brothers and World Vision. A 7 hour flight to Brussells and another 8 hours to Rwanda. The Courage Brothers have been organizing the Polar Bear dip for 25 years and for the last 14 have been directing the money raised to Water Projects in Africa through World Vision – Love those guys!! World Vision wanted to show the boys (Todd & Trent) just how much impact their support is having in the lives of people in Rwanda. On Monday we woke up at 5am to visit an Area Development Program with World Vision in Kahi. It is a 2 1/2 hour drive from our Hotel. It was a pretty emotional yet joyful day. I’ll have lot’s of pics and video when I get back on Monday
Please visit www.worldvision.ca to learn how you can help
or go to www.polarbeardip.ca to find out about the 2010 dip to raise money for World Vision
and of course we will be doing our annual pre-dip in Lake Ontario this December to promote the event on January 1st.
Click the play button to see some footage I shot with my Sanyo on Monday morning.
Take Care
Jenn
Wow Jenn – this is interesting stuff – keep posting video’s and pics.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:21 pmThis must have been quite an experience! Thanks for sharing and helping World Vision to get the word out there that lives can be changed!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:19 pmJenn – congratulations on reporting on such a fantastic event – World Vision does such great work! Congratulations to the Courage Brothers – keep up the great work – you have my support !
September 30th, 2009 at 8:06 amWhen I watched the video on your blog, it was showing the clean water that is now available to approximately 10,000 people. Could you explain though, why the water was running freely, spilling over onto the ground and the people walking in it?
Makes no sense to me. Maybe a lesson should be taught………CONSERVE WATER!!!
September 30th, 2009 at 8:06 ami just went to say thank you for that vidio just makes thing in porspakes haw likey we are in this gret countrey we taek thinges for granted good job
September 30th, 2009 at 9:22 amwhat a great experience for u and all the people involved keep up the great work and keep posting videos they are interesting to see how this all came about
October 1st, 2009 at 8:11 amCongratulations Jenn in sharing this experience, is good to let the world know how lucky we are
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:04 amand appreciate every day of our lifes. Helping others make us grow,
As a mother this must be a quiet intense experience, you wish you could adopt all the kids you see
struggling to survive and not having a chance to go to school like our kids here
God bless you for all the hard work you and all these nice people are doing to help
these kids.
Hey Guys…thanks for the nice comments…my last night here in Rwanda. It’s been quite an eye opening week. An experience I will never forget.
Yvonne…I totally understand how you would have the impression that water is being wasted but it is actually a natural spring that flows naturally. World Vision has captured it and filtered it. Before it was a stream running into a pile of muck.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pmIt flows like that naturally under the ground. Now that it’s raised it still flows freely and the run off irrigates hundreds of acres of crops. This particular area is the wetland where there are a lot of underground springs…but thanks for addressing it in case anyone else thought the same thing….Take Care..see you Monday…Jenn