Breaking news from the front!!!

I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! We just got word from Yassir, Tarik's younger brother. Apparently, 600 trees have been planted. This is the good news. The bad news is that, it wasn't nearly enough. Yassir said that word spread really fast all over the region that there was an organization planting trees around the rivers and people from all over came asking for trees. He said that next time, we need to have at least 6000 trees! Apparently, it wasn't just people living close to the water who are concerned about flood control but people from all over.

They were also able to build something of a bridge. I don't know yet what exactly they did, but they're sending us pictures soon and I will post them as soon as I get them.

I also have to mention that I received an email and a very heartfelt phone from Tarik's sisters expressing their sincere thanks for the contributions. They repeated several times how touching it was that all these people responded in such a way. It really feels good to know that we were able to have an impact. Now my only thing is to figure out how to have more of impact. There was another devestating flood earlier in the month of February in the Gharb region in Morocco. Our trees are needed.