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.

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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