Day 6: Boat ride up to 4 square orphanage minus life jackets in an old rickity boat that broke down only once. While the boat was smoking from the seems we were drifting with the current into peoples houses ~ bit scary, but again, came out alive.
Carlys blog:Breakfast consisted of chicken bor bor ~ this is a savory porridge that nearly bought half the team to their knees. Caz originally scored the toilet at a 8/10, but the team consensus was actually a 3/10. there may have been a bar of soap in the loo, but not a bowl to sit on.
Andis blog...And why is it that whenever we come across this type of toilet, that you always need the longest wee in the world!!! Calf muscles will be huge by the end of this trip!
A big happy birthday to Mick Witter, our birthday boy.
Medical checks were a long long day, 380 people visited us today. Main presentation was stomach ache, diareeah(still cant spell that) !, worms, scabies, some very sad cases of depression among these people, which reminds me to tell you about the poor lady at clinic the other day who asked me if I could give her some 'crying' tablets to stop her from crying all the time :0( ... i wish i could have just given her something but unfortunately our pharmacy didnt carry anti depressives.
One particular patient today absolutely broke my heart with her sad story of 'mistreatment'.
So half way through clinics we stopped to distribute the water filters to the villagers and watch Rodney deliver an education session on how to use them, although i did get distracted by the amorous goat trying to flirt with Cor !
The team were absolutely exhausted by the end of the day and finished up with showers, an early dinner and a dodgy movie on the tv, scooby doo is todays flick !
over and out from me, Andi. Good night x
Carlys blog:Breakfast consisted of chicken bor bor ~ this is a savory porridge that nearly bought half the team to their knees. Caz originally scored the toilet at a 8/10, but the team consensus was actually a 3/10. there may have been a bar of soap in the loo, but not a bowl to sit on.
Andis blog...And why is it that whenever we come across this type of toilet, that you always need the longest wee in the world!!! Calf muscles will be huge by the end of this trip!
A big happy birthday to Mick Witter, our birthday boy.
Medical checks were a long long day, 380 people visited us today. Main presentation was stomach ache, diareeah(still cant spell that) !, worms, scabies, some very sad cases of depression among these people, which reminds me to tell you about the poor lady at clinic the other day who asked me if I could give her some 'crying' tablets to stop her from crying all the time :0( ... i wish i could have just given her something but unfortunately our pharmacy didnt carry anti depressives.
One particular patient today absolutely broke my heart with her sad story of 'mistreatment'.
So half way through clinics we stopped to distribute the water filters to the villagers and watch Rodney deliver an education session on how to use them, although i did get distracted by the amorous goat trying to flirt with Cor !
The team were absolutely exhausted by the end of the day and finished up with showers, an early dinner and a dodgy movie on the tv, scooby doo is todays flick !
over and out from me, Andi. Good night x