Sarah Kanowski

This is a very challenging place to live.

There's no clean water to drink.

There's no power.

Everyone's getting malaria.

There's a funeral every week.

But we get to work and we're working seven days a week and we're waking up at six in the morning and going to bed at midnight.

You know, we're doing everything we possibly can for these kids.

So even six months in, there's a whole bunch going well.

We've opened a library.

There's hundreds of kids coming to school every day.

So that's all the good stuff.

But there's also some real challenges.

In the first six months, Caitlin and I had malaria each five times.

the police were investigating me, not my American girlfriend.

They were investigating me because they thought I was an American spy.

The mayor had threatened that he would push me out of the township because he was not happy with what I was doing.

And I had eight curses on me from local witch doctors because every time I fired a drunk and late member of staff after their fifth warning, they'd go and spend half their paycheck on a curse.

Curse one, two, and three, I was like, guys, you're wasting your money.

And then all this bad stuff started happening.

I was like, wow, the curses, I think they hold some weight.