Progress Report on the GeoDiscovery Lab

THANK YOU, to everybody who donated money to help build the GeoDiscovery Center at OrphanAid Africa. We've completed the mud walls and thatch roofing. The final layer of mud (made of termite mounds, so they are a vibrant red) is drying as I write this. The furniture is under construction and our shipment of wall maps from the National Geographic Society is scheduled to arrive today. If all goes as planned, our opening ceremony will be next Monday.

With the rains, our solar panels have not been able to support computer use. Therefore, I am working from the nearest internet cafe, 45 minutes away by "tro-tro". I am kicking myself for forgetting the photographs that I have taken so far of the lab!! We have, however, installed a new router that is going to turn the entire orphanage, Ayenyah village and the surrounding 1 Kilometer into a wireless hotspot. Once we are hooked into the nearby hydroelectric system created by Lake Volta (the biggest man-made lake in the world) we are going to be able to create a new Computer Lab for area students. Please visit www.RyanFlahive.com in the next couple of weeks to find out how you can help make this happen.

Since I don't have photos of the lab with me, I will instead share these photographs of our first GeoDiscovery Field trip to Boti falls with the children. More on that later too!