At the end of the day on Friday we finally received permission to deliver our parcels.  They had been in bond until this point and we had been waiting for this permission all week.  Now we are open for business and the work of delivering has begun.  We had people phoning local recipients to come in and pick up their packages if they were able and we had many vehicles starting to make trips to various villages in the area.  There are a lot of documents that need to be accurately completed and signed so our central “office” has been established in the gym at School #1 where the boxes are stored.  Here are Lena, Nina and Natasha (with Andrei) keeping track of everything that leaves the gym.

One of our first customers was Natasha who received a brand new Continue reading →