I
t’s been a long day…in fact it has
been a long couple of days but we have almost
reached our destination.
We left Kuching, Malaysia, in the early hours of
the morning while it was still dark and have spent
the last 10 hours negotiating the rough, dusty,
potholed ridden roads of Borneo as we travelled
deep into the heart of the jungle of West Kalimantan.
I am very aware of every bone in my body as
they have had a shaking and rattling today as we
journeyed to our destination. At times I wondered if the land cruiser we were travelling in
would suddenly fall apart as it rattled, jerked and
bumped faithfully along. We are hot, tired, dusty
and longing for sleep.
Now though, as we turn off the dirt road and
begin to make our way up the final hill, that all
fades into the background and we strain our
necks to get the first glimpse of the smiling faces
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we know await us just over the hill past the entrance gates.
We’ve arrived! Living Waters Village opens up
before us as like an ‘oasis in the desert’ as we
travel down the main road and stop outside the
training centre.
We disembark to be greeted by the
throng of smiling faces of the Indonesian
children who live here.
This is the second time Toni and I have visited
Living Waters Village together. Toni is a Dental
Therapist who has spent the last seven or more
years travelling the world to offer her skills to the
poorest of poor.
“Why don’t you go to Living Waters village?” I
asked her, “I am sure they could use a dentist”.
“Only if you come as my dental nurse!” Toni replied and that is how I found myself at her side