Friday, March 2, 2012

WHEELCHAIR PROJECT CLOSING AND OUR LAST TRIP TO KUCHING

This was our last trip to Kuching
and the closing for a wheelchair project that was started before we ever came on our mission. We took Francis Johen to dinner at Bla bla bla, which has become one of our favorite restaurants in Kuching. The food is really yummy and I love the decor. It has a rusted tin roof, two koi ponds, and lots of artifacts and red Chinese lanterns. Very simple, yet charming. The next day, on Saturday morning, we had our project closing at Cheshire Homes in Kuching. Francis had three of these recipients to come. The man in the yellow shirt had fallen out of a tree, man in the yellow pants was in a car wreck, and the double amputee has diabetes. None of them would had a wheelchair if it were not for LDS Charities. The elderly man sitting behind them is Dr. Foster who had been invited by Ms. Chia who is one of the directors of Cheshire Homes. Dr. Foster is a retired ENT surgeon. He was delightful to talk to.


This is Ms. Chia, expressing her thanks to LDS Charities for their contributions to the people of Kuching. Ms. Chia is a widow. Her husband was a very prominent government official until he died in a helicopter crash four years ago while on official business. They have four daughters and one son. Her son and his wife are doctors, educated in the UK. Her daughters are graduates of US schools--one from Harvard, one from Yale, one from Wharton School of business, and I can't remember where the youngest is in school. Wow!!! She is so gracious and lovely. She took us back to our Hotel after giving us a short tour of Kuching.




Ms Chia presented us with a vase as thanks for our assistance in the wheelchair projects. We have not opened it. We're just shipping it home.






This is Francis, presenting us with the completed list of names of all the wheelchair recipients. We enter this in our records and the project is complete!!


These are just a few of the lovely people whom we have met on this mission--new friends for a lifetime. We will miss them all. BUT....


We are ready to come home in a few weeks. We miss and love our family and friends. See ya soon.


E/S Larson

DAD & MOM

PAPA & GIGI








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