Emergency Contacts

For your peace of mind and that of those who care for you, here is contact information for the people and places we'll see:

Habitat for Humanity International Global Village
Mozambique August 17 – September 3, 2006
Habitat Area Coordinator
Treva Wetherell 1-229-924-6935 ext 2191 (W)
E-mail: twetherell@habitat.org
Director of Global Village
David Minich 1-229-924-6935 ext 2547 (W) 1-229-928-9341 (H)
Cellular emergency hotline 1-229-886-7911
Fax: 1-229-924-0577 (W) OR 1-215-243-8051 (Desktop)


In-country HFH Contact
Kevin Kehus
National Director
Habitat for Humanity Moçambique
Rua Almeida Garret, 12
Maputo, Moçambique
hfhmoznd@tvcabo.co.mz
Tel: +258 1 414 314
+258 82 316 3000
Fax: +258 1 414 290
Office Mobile: +258 82 313 031
Aida Tembe: Project officer: +258 82 420 0840
Daniel Lyons: Peace Corps Volunteer: +258 83 382 4159
U.S. Embassy in Mozambique
American Embassy
Avenida Kenneth Kaunda, 193
Caixa Postal 783
Phone: (258) 1 49 27 97, 49 16 59, 49 01 67, 49 12 15
Fax: (258) 1 49 01 14
Maputo, Mozambique
MEDEX Travelers Assistance Network (24/7)
Policy number 6404-54-47, MEDEX code CHB
1-800-527-0218
OR
1-410-453-6330 (US)
44-273-223000 (UK)

IBIS Hotel (August 18-19, 30, September 1)

Av. 25 de Setembro, 1743 Maputo
Tel 258 21 352200
Fax 258 21 352220

Inhaca Azul Lodge (August 20-29)

Inhaca Azul Lodge, Inhaca Island, Maputo, Mozambique
Manager: Toni – 258 82 7171860. Lodge: 258 21760020
Movis : Inhaca Azul management: +258 82 382 4159

Camp Skakuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa (August 31)

The Rogers Family

Davy and I now feel pretty confident that we can win the last post prize, so here goes: I (Jim) got to know Jordan five years ago, when my eldest daughter, Katie, and I were Habitat volunteers in Braga, Portugal, where Jordan was the Project Manager. It was on that trip that we started the tradition of early morning walks through historic Braga for exercise of the body and the mind. I came back to Braga the next year with my younger daughter, Betsy, co-leading a trip with one of the team members from our first visit, Kathy Davison. Three years later (last summer), Kathy led another group back to Braga, so I came once again, this time with my wife, Bonnie, and son, Davy. As you can tell, I have found Habitat trips to be very rewarding experiences, as have my wife and all of my children. When Jordan proposed a trip to Mozambique, Davy jumped at the chance.

Davy is a senior in high school at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. He loves music (both listening to all kinds of music as well as learning to play his guitar), is a great athlete, especially with any sport involving a ball, and is an excellent writer and filmmaker. He is the JV Sports Editor for the Whitman school newspaper and he will be bringing some video equipment in hopes of memorializing this trip on film. Here is a picture of Davy and his two sisters taken on the Amalfi Coast last April when we were all celebrating my wife and my 25th wedding anniversary. (There are no pictures of me because there aren't enough gray pixels to get all of my hair.)

I am a lawyer with the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where I have practiced for 25 years (so far). I am a corporate lawyer and do deals, especially in the communications and technology areas, although some deals involve life sciences and biotech and some involve fast-food restaurants! Between work and family I'm pretty busy, but I try to find time to play, to stay in shape, and to be involved in pro bono and charitable activities. I like to travel, and I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa, so I'm very excited about seeing a new part of the world, giving back to the community, reuniting with Jordan, and brushing up on my few words of Portuguese.

Responding Creatively to Your Trip Experience

Greetings Builders,

Most of you, I hope, will remember discussing with me on the phone the idea of responding creatively to your trip experience.

This is an additional responsibility I'd like you to consider assuming, for two reasons: First, in order that the rest of us might understand and appreciate our own trip experience differently and perhaps better in light of your creativity; and secondly, in order that we might share some of these creative responses with people who have supported us and with potential participants or supporters of future Global Village teams.

Creative responses might take any form: they might be written, they might be visual, they might be auditory, they might be electronic, they might be performed. They might combine all of those. They might deal with the trip as a whole in its larger context or treat only a single detail.

Whatever your preferred art form, consider employing for the benefit of us all.

There's no deadline. You may turn in your project any time after we return. Please let me know if you're willing to take on this challenge and if there's anything I can do to facilitate your creativity.

Thank you for your consideration.

Jordan