Last Monday 2 canoes with men left to take care there will be enough meat and fish for the whole village to eat at Christmas. The men are expected back on Thursday or Friday. Then the next big job for the women begins: cleaning and preparing all the game and fish. The women have been baking cassava bread and cooking cassava drink for days. Furthermore, the high grass is mowed in various places in the village. These are all preparations for Christmas. We pray that people also prepare inwardly for the celebration of the nativity of Jesus.Tuesday 21/12 we suddenly saw two boats filled with empty barrels and men coming downstream from Palemeu. We learned they were going down river to collect barrels full of diesel for the village generator. These barrels are brought up from Albina with a large canoe and then one has to travel for days from the different villages, through rapids, to ensure that electricity is supplied to the village. The village generator runs for a few hours every evening. We are happy that there is again a working village generator in Palemeu because in recent years they had no electricity at all. In Apetina we also enjoy a few hours of electrical power in the village every day. We heard that a reconditioned generator has arrived that is reliable and more economical than the previous older one. Now we can enjoy a few hours of electricity every day without having to use the capacity of our solar panels and batteries. Everyone is busy preparing for Christmas.

That is why it is very special to us that the group that was trained in the principles of Foundations for Farming in Lawa last August was motivated to work on a 1.5 cubic meter compost heap and a 10×15 meter testing garden last Saturday and Monday.

Many hands make the work light which we experienced together. This is a good preparation for the training given by Canadian trainers from FfF in Apetina in mid-January 2022, if the visa etc. all go well.