Cancelled flights, long travel days and getting down to work!

So, after a cancelled flight which resulted in an unexpected overnight stay in London, not getting into Johannesburg until 11pm Saturday, and a longer than expected drive across South Africa, I have finally made it into Lesotho, as of 6pm Sunday night.  We were meant to have lunch with some of the Habitat Lesotho team at the Cranberry Cottage in Ladybird, South Africa, but due to our drive taking 2 hours longer than expected, we were unable to meet with them before the restaurant closed.  We were able to follow them back in to Lesotho and actually walk across the border into Lesotho, which was pretty cool.  That wrapped up my long travel days from Colorado and we as a team just got dinner and hit the hay.

Monday morning we had a meeting with the Habitat Lesotho Executive Director Mathabo Makuta and the Advocacy and Resource Development leader Bohlokoa Mokhotho to go over the programs that the affiliate currently has in place and what they would like to accomplish in the future.  We also discussed what the focus should be for our meeting with the Minister of Social Development tomorrow morning.  I was reunited with a very special art piece as well.

 After our meeting, we headed out to Mathebe and Ha-Semoli, which was about 1 hour south of Maseru.  After meeting with the local chief, who helps Habitat Lesotho find families who would qualify for housing, we had lunch on the mountainside as a team.  After lunch, we split in to 2 group to go meet and interview families who had received housing through Habitat Lesotho.  The family that I met with has such a powerful story, that I cannot wait to share with you, I just need time to process the story and do it justice.