More Photos from the VIM trip to the Congo 2004
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![]() Welcoming delegation in Wembo Nyama (rain forest village in central Congo) meets our plane on the airstrip. |
![]() Village children dance and sing in the Bishop's compound in Wembo Nyama |
![]() Methodist mission church in Wembo Nyama, circa 1930s, dilapidated but still in use. |
![]() The elderly women in Wembo Nyama, unable to adequately support themselves, gather in the Bishop's compound to receive gifts of salt, sugar, soap, and money from the U.S. visitors. |
![]() Some of the women of Wembo Nyama (the lady with the purple scarf is 42 y.o.) |
![]() Marching down the main street on our visit to Tunda (a rain forest village in Kivu Province). |
![]() Children preparing a meal for their mother, who is a maternity patient in the hospital in Tunda. The boys are cooking in an unused, and structurally unsafe, room in the hospital. |
![]() Brother and sister in Wembo Nyama. |
![]() Peninsula-Delaware Volunteers-In-Mission 2004 Congo Team. |
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![]() This lady carries a 5 gal. container of water uphill 1 mile from the river, four times a day, for her family. This is in the vicinity of the orphanage. |
Toilet facilities at the orphanage, 2004 |
Cooking a meal at the orphanage. |
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