The "Stop Hunger Now" food has arrived!

It's now 12:30 and in 30 minutes as I drive out of Hope House yard and head to Deschapelles, I will be able to say TGIF. The day started at 5:00 AM getting prepared for cement pouring and getting the food, Plus packing my own things. At 7 we were off to Food for the Poor, Joseph and I in our truck and Marie in her car behind us. We met another big camion not far from FFTP. After a short weight as the guards hadn't recieved the message of our arrival, we were let in and the vehicles lined up for the loading. We had 10 pallets..each with 66 boxes on them....8 went into the big truck, one on our truck and one into the back of Marie's truck. By shortly after 9 we were on the way back to Hope House.....that was pretty darn good as far as I was concerned and coming home we had very little traffic. Marie went on to her place to unload her truck load into her depot. The rest of us turned into #10 and started our work. As the saying goes, many hands make light work and it didn't take long before we had rice placed everywhich where.

I figured the fellows unloading the food deserved a little tip and knowing that food is much appreciated, each of them recieved several bags of it to take home to their families. We will not be short as there are 36 bags in each of the boxes which means we recieved today 23,760 bags of fortified rice meals...each of which will feed approx. 4 -6 people (depending on their age and appetite!) Tues. We will load a bunch of it up and take it to the school as we will be sending several packages home with each student..as a welcome back to school gift.



While we were unloading the trucks, Jorel's crew at the back of the yard was busy pouring the cement roof. They worked so well that a job Jorel figures would take until 2 was done by just after 11. I 've included several pictures that will show you that process.





Each of the workers also recieved a brand new shirt out of the stock of donations that I had recieved so all of them went home with a happy smile on their faces.....a good way to start the weekend. and with that I will say tira for now and go and start my weekend ....hope yours is good as well.

Debbie