first weekend in De Doorns

I'm exactly where I should be, and doing what I should be doing. 


Surprisingly its also exactly where I want to be, and what I want to be doing. Fantastic. :)


Friday was my first day in De Doorns, and I'm so excited to report that its exactly what I thought it would be. Its in a gorgeous valley, surrounded by vineyards and mountains, and I think, full of potential/hope. 

De Doorns. View from the Catholic Church (where we operate from).

We met with our De Doorns team Friday night to work on the progress in the community. This week at work I studied how to build a constitution in a non-profit organization. Friday I got to watch that process come to life. It's so much more exciting to watch the process of discussion, debate, and decision arise from the plain, somewhat dry, outline I had read a few days before. I got to watch/be a part of development in a rural community, and it was definitely inspiring. 


Next week we will be screening a documentary in one of the township communities and some of the members of our committee scoped out a spot to show it. 

This picture is just across the path we drove on. Hope we get a lot of community involvement next week!

Here's our Garden Project. We intended to plant seeds this weekend, but the untimely flash floods created a river in our planting bed. So, hopefully next weekend we can plant, fix the fence that was knocked down by the water, and proceed with our committee's mission to provide fresh vegetables to the community. 

I'll be in De Doorns next Thursday-Saturday, so I'll update everyone on how the screening goes too! Hopefully there won't be anymore flash floods, so we might be able to plant our community vegetable garden next week too! 


Lots of love,


Laura