Team Paperwork Week

Greetings Builders,

The next step in our journey is downloading and completing the
Emergency Contact and Global Village Release and Waiver of Liability
forms, and submitting them along with a copy of the ID page of your
passport. Thank you in advance if you have already taken care of this step.

Emergency Contact and Global Village Release and Waiver of Liability forms can be downloaded now from http://www.habitat.org/gv/pdf/gv_eci_waiver.pdf

The completed Emergency Contact and Global Village Release and Waiver
of Liability forms and the copy of the ID page of your passport may be
returned to the Global Village Department using one of these methods:
A. Fax the forms to HFHI at (229) 924-0577
B. Mail the forms to: Habitat for Humanity International, Global
Village Department,PO Box 369 Americus, GA 31709-3498, U.S.A.

Questions may be directed to the Global Village department via e-mail
gv@habitat.org or telephone (229) 924-6935, ext. 2549.

Then, you must email me scanned copies or send copies of all three documents to:

Jordan Kleber
Apartado 22613
1147-501 Lisbon
Portugal

So today is the Official Opening Day of Team Paperwork Week, which lasts until next Tuesday, June 6th. Before sundown next Tuesday please mail your paperwork to Habitat and to me and keep a copy of all three documents to carry with you on the trip.

Please also keep me posted on developments with your flight arrangements and forward me copies of your itineraries once reservations are made.

Finally, please send me confirmation that your vaccinations are under way.

Thank you for your work. You're going to be a great team.

Jordan

Flight Arrangements

Greetings Builders,

Once again please do not delay in making your flight arrangements.

To repeat, we hope that everyone will be able to catch one or the other of the following flights so that we may all arrive in Maputo at the same time:

TP (TAP, a Portuguese airline) 283 17AUG LISBON TO MAPUTO 730PM 925AM 18AUG

or

SA (South African Airlines) 142 18AUG JOBURG TO MAPUTO 940AM 1045AM

Again, if you'd like help making your arrangements, rather than just doing it yourself via travelocity.com or orbitz.com or expedia.com or a similar site, you might speak with Terrie at Universal Travel in Americus, Georgia. Her email is univ_tvl@bellsouth.net but I would encourage you to call her at 866-924-9365.

As soon as you've made your flight reservations please forward a copy of your itinerary to me. As always, please let me know if there's any way I may help.

Have a great Thursday.

Jordan

A Day On the Job

Here's what a typical work day might look like on Inhaca Island, Mozambique:

6:00 Calisthenics on the beach with Jim

7:00 Breakfast at the Lodge

8:00 Build

10:00 Tea

10:30 Build

13:00 Lunch at the jobsite

13:30 Build

15:30 End of work day

16:00 Remove accumulated grime and perspiration

18:30 Dinner at the Lodge

19:30 Team meeting

20:00 R & R

Meet the Team

By the numbers:

• 8 men
• 7 women
• 2 Portuguese
• 4 Portuguese speakers
• 5 Spanish speakers
• 9 French speakers
• 15 English speakers
• 1 Italian speaker
• 3 Canadians
• 1 Irishman
• 5 New Yorkers
• 2 African Americans
• 3 Europeans
• 4 Third Culture Kids
• 1 person born in the 40’s
• 1 person born in the 50’s
• 2 people born in the 60’s
• 3 people born in the 70’s
• 7 people born in the 80’s
• 1 person born in the 90’s
• 1 person who’s had just 6 birthdays
• 1 person who’ll have a birthday while we’re together
• 3 Artists
• 3 Dancers
• 9 Writers
• 4 Photographers
• 1 Singer
• 2 Lawyers
• 15 Builders (6 w/experience)


Shaun Ben-Ari is a teenage globe-trotter from New York fluent in Spanish who enjoys working with kids.

Wendi Ben-Ari is an ESL teacher, a Fulbright scholar, and Shaun’s mom.

Mike Christensen is a high school counsellor turned builder and father of five young men from Seattle.

Erinn Hatter is a dancer and preschool art teacher from Pennsylvania now living in New York City.

Rochelle Kirton is a 4th year Trent University business student and entrepreneur from Ontario, Canada, whose parents are from Barbados.

Jordan Kleber moved to Portugal from Seattle with his family in 2001 to work with Habitat for Humanity and now operates VisitingPortugal.com in Lisbon with his wife, Debbie.
Here's Jordan, right, with (R-L) son Drex, wife Debbie, daughter Austin and Austin's husband, Vitor.

Megan MacCrellish is a camp counsellor and sophomore economics student at Middlebury College in Vermont.

John Mosely spoke English at home growing up in Portugal. Now he’s a first year international business student in Porto, Portugal, and deadly from three-point range.

Rahim Mulji is an Investment Banker from Calgary, Alberta. He was raised in a Muslim household by parents from Tanzania and Kenya.

Lee Richmond is a veteran Global Village volunteer and sales manager from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Davy Rogers is another veteran Global Village volunteer and sports columnist from Bethesda, Maryland.

Jim Rogers is your insurance policy. He leads Global Village teams in his sleep. If Jordan goes to pieces, he’ll pick them up. He practices law in Washington, D.C. and he’s Davy’s dad.

Isabel Serrano practices law in Portimão, Portugal.

Kathryne Wick grew up on Long Island, studied art and roomed with Erinn at Penn State, and now works as a freelance costume designer in New York City.

Accommodations

We'll stay just a short walk from the jobsite at the Inhaca Lodge.

We'll sleep comfortably beneath our mosquito nets--which the Habitat affiliate will be providing--unless our roommate snores, the way Jordan snores. (Don't forget to pack earplugs.)

Each morning at 6 Jim will lead you all in calisthenics on the beach.