On the 13th of February, Team NINE finally had the opportunity to meet Pastor Michael Christian. He is the director of Tomorrow's Hope Orphange at Nias. We had dinner with him and were given time to present our project to the Pastor to seek his views on our planned trip. While most of the activities we planned on conducting in Nias were given the green light, the Pastor also requested that we help in preparing the soil for agricultural use and building a chicken coop to rear about a thousand chickens there so that the people can be taught to be self sufficient.
We were also given the opportunity to enquire about Nias and the conditions there. It's safe to say that while the orphanage itself may be quite modernized, the conditions and circumstances there is going to be hardly what we are used to here in Singapore. It's important that we mentally prepare ourselves for the trip.
In all, the interaction was a critical one to help us get a better picture of the necessity for Team NINE to do as much as possible to impact the lives of the children at Tomorrow's Hope and the people in Nias.
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