It’s been a busy last couple months here at Thrive, sorry I didn’t send out an email last month. We’ve had a lot mission teams out here from the States, which means I spent most of my days driving teams into villages instead of spending time in the office. It’s both good and bad. It’s great to go out with teams and get to know them and hear all the stories they have at the end of the day. The down side is that I don’t get too much time in the office so not too many projects are getting done these months. I’ve done the Joburg 6 hour round-trip drive more times than I can remember. I’m not really sure which I’d prefer… I like to be in the office and get work done, but I’m realizing that it’s a great refresher of why I’m out here in the first place to be out in the villages and be with the people of Africa.

Back on March when we were accepted in the Google Grants program I wasn’t really sure what kind of increase we would see in the traffic to our website. Well, just 4 months later and it’s safe to say that the program is exceeding my expectations. Not only has traffic to the website increased tremendously, but the interests in our internships, team hosting, and staff positions is off the charts. Just to give a quick example, over half of our 16 Summer Interns found us on Google!