Peter Tommy: Any comments or suggestions?

Peter stands with his pal by their carpenter’s bench under the tree almost opposite our gate. The unlit rented shack where he lives with his wife & 3 children and grandchild is just behind. He is a committed Christian, who came to us for help with school fees for his son to go to secondary school, and more recently for a bag of rice for his hungry family.

He is an unemployed, but very skilled joiner. To help him financially we asked him to make a few things for us; a table, a shelf, a door screen and couple of door wedges – cutoffs from the beautiful tamas hardwood.

To improve their marketing I suggested they move their bench back ten feet for space to display sample furniture for the hundreds of people who walk past each day. He has no capital for the furniture, and we plan to provide this from UK donated funds.

We have also commissioned him to make some child’s building blocks – for our grandson (Joel Victor Lyth who is doing fine!), and wondered whether we could market up to 50 sets of blocks to be sold in UK? If you have any comments on set design, legal or customs restrictions on such a project could you email us on www.david.lyth@mercyships.org ? Thank you.