Day six is over...

From Alex

Today started earlier than the other days, because we had to go to the farthest village. It's in the lowlands. After the program there, we came back to the office for lunch with the local team. We were served soup with local vegetables and something very much like wet bread crumbs, which was fermented, and which we were to dip into the soup. After a quick lunch, we started work on the project. Pastor Pavel and I went to help in construction at the school. We were working in the first grade classroom, doing floors and walls. We worked together with local men. I remembered the time of construction of the Zelenograd House of Prayer. (Skills acquired at the construction site came in handy). We finished pouring the floor today. Later, we'll need to plaster the walls and paint them. We ran out of water while working. Children from the 3rd or 4th classes were sent to the nearest river to bring water (carrying the buckets and tubs on their heads). After school, the children went home, but when we were going home, we met them returning to school with hammers. I remembered how we had been told that the children are asked to collect stones and break them into small pieces. Then the teacher sells them, but sometimes the money doesn't go for the needs of the schools but for the teacher. Such injustice and exploitation of children happens. Generally, the attitude towards children here is very different from ours in Russia. The children are almost not noticed until they are needed to do something. There are a lot of other such differences in our cultures.
Our team was very tired from the day and everyone else is asleep already. We have about 6 hours left to sleep.
Please pray for physical and spiritual strength for our team. We feel the lack of sleep and are tired. Nick's children are sick; please pray for their recovery.
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