August - Suriname Wheelchair project.

We went to Suriname to help with the training of people to repair wheelchairs and to train people to assure that people in need of a wheelchair get the right size wheelchair. 

 

 

Just a small portion of the wheelchairs sent to Suriname. 

Sister Cullimore and Sister Moore resting on the benches which will be use for people to sit on when they are getting fitted for a new wheelchair. 

 

Sister Moore looking hungry outside a Chinese restaurant. 

 

Wheelchair repair training.  That is Hank in the wheelchair, he is confined to a wheelchair but has a great attitude and really wanted to learn how to repair wheelchairs. 

 Assembling a rough rider wheelchair.  A rough rider is designed to make it easier to travel outside on rough terrain.

More assembly. 

Fitting the back on the rough rider wheelchair. 

Discussing what they have learned. 

 

 Sister Moore, Elder Moore and Elder Helm (grandson of Mrs. Helm a teacher at the North Gem School in Bancroft, Idaho).

 

People waiting to get a new wheelchair on the final day of training, when the trainees get to put their new knowledge to use. 

 One of the happy recipients of a new wheelchair.

Another recipient. 

Hank helping to adjust a rough rider wheelchair. 

Young man with his new rough rider wheelchair. 

Another one of the recipients with the people who made sure she got the right size wheelchair. 

Sister Moore, Sister Cullimore, Minister of Health, ? 

The elders were very helpful.  They played the part of patients needing wheelchairs because of various problems, stroke, paralysis, amputation, etc. 

Elder and Sister Moore with the trainers and President Verwey.

 

 This guy was out with his pedal cart business in a rain storm on the flood road.

This was more rain than normal in one rainstorm. 

 

Elder Moore being helped around in a wheelchair. 

Elder Moore still needing help up a ramp. 

Sister Moore watching to see if he makes it down the ramp safely. 

Just a little bit of the mobility training.  The trainees do this so they will know what it is like to move around in a wheelchair. 

Teaching the proper way to take someone up and down stairs. 

Elder Moore got over being confined to a wheelchair and then had to load some in a truck to take them to the site of the distribution .

Still working hard. 

 

The LDS chapel where the assessment training and distribution took place. 

 

 Hank and Sister Moore listening intently.

The group of people who were involved in the wheelchair training.

 

 

August - Flowers, etc. in Suriname

 Sister Moore got loose with the camera.  Who knows what she will take a picture of.
 

 

Egg Plant↨ 

 

 

 

Building where the wheelchair assembly and repair training was conducted.

 

 

 

Look closely there's a bird. 

Look even closer there's a lizard. 



August - Monkey outside our apartment.

One of the many sightings of monkeys in the backyard. 

 

Cute feller.  Look at the pits on the wall, evidence that monkeys have been eating on the wall. 

What talent, to balance on the rail of a chain-link fence.



July - It's Underground we go!!! (Barbados)

For a little bit of adventure we went to Harrison's Cave in Barbados.  At the farthest underground point we were 173ft below the surface.

 

Sister Moore 

 

The entrance to the visitors center.

 

 

Sister Moore with her palm headdress.

 

Relief showing Barbados.

 View from the elevator to get down to the cave entrance.

Looking back up at the elevator. 

The missionaries at the pre-show before getting on the tram to go into the cave. 

Stalagmites looking like a crowd of people. 

 Interesting formation at a small waterfall.

Just a couple of tourists in a cave. 

A formation from water flowing down the wall. 

Real cool. 

The group of LDS Missionaries serving in Barbados.

Sister Moore with some plants.

 

 

 

July - Outside of Harrison's Cave (Barbados)

Sister Moore just has to have flowers in her blog. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spider Lily. 

 

Okay.  It's not a flower but it is a large centipede.



July - Trip to Tobago

We really did go to Tobago to work on humanitarian training.  We were training local church leaders and explaining humanitarian principles and what can be and what can't be a humanitarian project.

 

Elder Moore thought he could climb a coconut palm.

 

See how the ocean waves have undercut the rock on the beach.

What can she be dreaming of? 

Our feathered friend came for a snack. 

 The view from the hotel room.

The friendly lizard in our room.  Wonder if he wanted to get in the suitcase to go with us. 

 In front of the Tobago LDS meeting house.

Looking out the back from the hotel. 

Elder and Sister Moore eating off banana leaves. 

Tobago must agree with Elder Moore.  He now has lots of dark hair. 

Sister Moore got caught by a pirate.