Yurts or Mine (Kyrgyzstan)

Tuesday April 3 Purchased air conditioners for our first project. We will have them installed in the Bishkek Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled.  This is the place where we taught and assembled the wheelchairs for the Bishkek area. Luckily the weather wasn't bad so the rooms were comfortable. The major rooms face west so in the summer the sun heats up those rooms immensely. There is one of those rooms that have heat lamps for therapy and the room gets extremely hot. LDS Charities provided 6 wall mounted AC's for the main west rooms which will help or eliminate the extreme heat during the day. Wednesday April 4 Wheelchair Recipients Interview start: Today we went out doing follow ups for wheelchair recipients from last year. We have to account for the wheelchairs after 6 months of being given out. So from last Nov dispersement we did the checks. This was a real eye opener.  The Wheelchair recipients live in remote villages.  We saw five recipients today. ...

Thusrday March 29 Traveled to the Bishkek Rehabilitation Center where we obtained copies of the assessments that the Social Workers filled out. We will start interviewing the recipients nest week.  We talked to Durtoloot the man over the wheelchair dispersement's and found out that they distributed all the chairs that they had (about 160 this time, 400 altogether). Friday March 30 We met with the Deputy Minister from the Ministry of Labor and Social Development Cholpon who is over the wheelchair dispersement for the country. We discussed how they can help us with these reports that need to go back to LDS Charities. We expressed how important these interviews with the wheelchair recipients are and the importance of the Clinicians who make these reports  doing the assessments correctly.  She let us know that we have all the cooperation from her department with hopes that we may be able to provide more chairs in the future. Just received our business cards in English...

Monday March 19 We meet all the volunteers(12 in all) at a huge mall for lunch. After lunch we did some grocery shopping to buy some things we can't get in Bishkek. The volunteers went back to the meeting house to play some games and we went back to our hotel to rest. That night all the senior couples and the President & his wife went to a Turkish restaurant for dinner and laughs.  Tuesday March 20   Zone conference all day. Great experience. Brought back memories of or first mission. Later that night we decided to have dinner in our room as we did some training with the Carter's. Wednesday March 21 Carter's flew back to the States at 4:30am. We were so blessed to be trained by them before they left. Wouldn't even know where to start if it wasn't for there great training. Now it is up to us. We know we will have some difficulty trying to converse with these awesome Kyrgyz's people but the spirit will help us convey what we need to say. We di...