Update on the House....

As you know, for privacy reasons, it is difficult to take photos etc of what goes on in the house with our girls and staff. But I thought I'd catch up on the progress of some of my stories.
Here we are this morning doing our usual pick up of children, and some parents from Stung Mean Chey (one of the slum areas of Phnom Penh) on our way to church. We had money donated recently to purchase a second Tuk Tuk . And as you can see it gets well used.

Full to the brim each Sunday, with eager and excited children, to be going to church. Sometimes we have so many people that we have to hire a second tuk tuk. Julie and I have started a little "thing" where we take a spare pair of undies with us, as some of the kids will jump on the tuk tuk half dressed. This morning the pair I had went to good use for a little girl who had on a lovely little skirt and top, and was happily jumping about flashing everything she owns, because she had no undies on. She was quite proud of them (the undies). When I put them on her, she kept lifting her skirt to have a look at them.

This man was offering morning tea while we were loading up the kids. Some sort of sausages, and the lower plastic bags have birds eggs of some sort in them. Yummy, I had to hold myself back from this treat! Lucky I'd already had my weetbix.
The family we moved from the riverfront are doing really well. We also pick them up in our other tuk tuk each Sunday and take them to church. The mother is doing really well making the bracelets we had her trained in making. She was making an average of 40 per week, which we buy from her. But this week she mad a whopping 70. She is able to fully support her family's food and rent now. We also supply the materials, so basically we are paying her for her labour per piece. The builders labouring job, we had organised for her husband, fell through at this stage. A lot of building has stopped because of the global economic situation. But apparently he is doing a lot of the cooking and helping a lot more with the kids and everything so that the wife can make the bracelets. We have also supplied the littler children with some educational material, so they can start to get some sort of education. So the family is doing really well. Praise God for this progress.
The school year year is almost finished here, and a few of our girls are really happy to be progressing to a new level. We have about 4 girls that are in grades lower than their age, because of the schooling that they have missed out on earlier. But they are all coming along really well. We get great reports from their teachers.

One of the 15 year old girls, that we have been tutoring at home this last 12 months, (in English with me and also in Khmer) is going to start school for the first time next semester. She has worked hard and come such a long way. She will be in a grade 2 years younger that her age, as are some of our other girls, but she wants to do it. So that is a success also.
Praise God for what He is doing in the SHE Rescue House. It is a privilege to be a part of it for this season. Please also keep me in your prayers. Thanks for tuning in. I love and appreciate you. Bless you heaps, love Lane.