Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

One of the great things about a tiny house is the fact it takes a lot less time to clean because there is less house to clean.   In many ways that is also true here in Tanzania.   There is a lot less house to clean, sweep, and mop up.   Cleaning up is something you also tend to do more regularly-at least for me.   For example, I don’t have a lot of dishes, pots and pans because I don’t have a lot of room to store them.   Because of this I tend to wash my dishes right after each meal.   I will need those same items for the next meal. There is one way in which cleaning a Tiny House in Tanzania is a bit more difficult.   I want to point out I am specifically talking about one in Tanzania and I expect cleaning a normal sized house in Tanzania would take a lot longer than it takes for me to do this same task in my Tiny House.   The area in which I am talking has to do with cobwebs and insects.   We don’t have air conditioning, so the house is built to be more open.   In addition,

This trip home to the states is coming to a close and I have been working to create a blog that gives a lot more detail about what a Virtual Mission Trip, what types of Virtual Mission Trips we need and how to go about creating one.  I will eventually takes this blog and post as a tab at the top of the page here on my blog site so people can find it easily and reference it often.  I will also attempt to update it with Virtual Mission Trips I have received. What is a Virtual Mission Trip? This is one of those not so crazy ideas I get when I am walking for miles on dirt roads.  It really is not anything new, just a more focused view for those wanting to participate in projects to help others.  A Virtual Mission Trip is where you (or someone helping you) creates a video we can show our students, our teachers or the community in general that helps in some way just as if you spent thousands of dollars and took a week or two off work and traveled here to do something with our students, ou