It is midnight and we are just getting into our room. What a day. We were picked up at 7:45 am to go to Liboré, to the village of Guireginde, to launch the first ever Farmers of the Future program. There were two armed soldiers on our jeep escorting us every step of the way […]

We woke up early and Ed went with the ORBIS team to the airplane for his first meeting at 7:30am. He was very excited to see the airplane and expected to give his lecture on PHACO later in the afternoon. He had been preparing this lecture for a couple months, first writing it in English, […]

We arrived safely today in Niger on an Air France flight from Paris at about 4:15pm. As we landed we saw the huge ORBIS airplane standing on the tarmac, already working to help the people of Niger. It was a very emotional moment and both Ed and I couldn’t believe it was happening. After all […]

In two weeks, Ed and I leave for Niger, to participate in the ORBIS program, and to offiically open the second set of classrooms in Libore, called Vive la Vie! It is an exciting time on all fronts. When Ed and I were in Niamey last, November 2007, we visited the hospital in Niamey and […]