Cote d'Ivoire 1999 & 2002

This was my very first mission trip, as well as my first trip outside the US.   Our small team of 11 was there to put an enormous roof on the church in Tortiya.  Three years later, I was back drilling waters wells in the arid northeastern corner in a small village called Vargbo.

Broken Water Pump

Tortiya Diamond Mine

Old Man

Birifor Boys

Jason & Fooseni

Vargbo Woodworker

Janet, Esther & Gail

Cow

Jenysia holding crocodile

Birifor Mud Hut

Boy

Jenysia with snakes

Friends in Action Drilling Rig

Vargbo Water Hole

Fooseni, Jacque, Stan & Nan

Woman carried firewood on her head

Birifor Man

African Kids

Kids by Ancestral Tree

Jenysia & Chuck making blocks

Randy with Birifor family

Boys

Jon & Nan having a cup of coffee

Jenysia looking at pottery

Kids

Kids

Selling fruit at the bus stop

Ancestral Tree

Boys

Jason with Heat Exhaustion

Pumping water

Worship

Handmade well in Buoake

Nan with albino boy

Neil & his tent

Ox cart in Tortiya

Birifor Mud Hut

Jon, Nan & Chuch in small boet

Tropical beach along Cote d'Ivoire south coast

Pirogue

Huts along road

MT bus

Plantains & Fish

Tortiya church inside with new trusses

Pump Foundation

Randy with Birifor family infront of their home

FIA water drilling rig

Tortiya church building

Jenysia playing with kids

Roadside village

Stan & Nan digging footers for new well site

Makeshift shade

Tortiya church building

Village of Vargbo 1

Kids

Village of Vargbo 2

Buoake Veggie & Fruit Stand

Women collecting water

Tortiya church inside with new trusses

Worker digging well

Yamoussoukro Basillica

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