Outreach clinics at a community called Kito have been a challenge because resources are limited. The local pastor and his wife have been extremely supportive. They have allowed us to use a corner of their church which as yet is only partially constructed, it has a roof and walls giving shade from the equatorial sunshine. The rest of the building is used for Lynne , Harriet and Jackie's adult literacy classes, so before starting the morning surgery a couple of pastors and I have to construct a separate surgery area using nails, a ladder and several spare beams from the construction site. This is then separated using some curtain material , we have pair of benches and a drum doubles up as table. I don't yet have an examination couch, but no doubt the ingenuity of the locals will come up with something!
We've also started an health promotion volunteers team who identify a local health need for example, malaria, then we discuss the basic health promotion message and they produce a short drama to illustrate the issue. When I was in Malawi with the LINKs team, it worked very well, here's hoping and praying.
On a different note, Lynne and I did our first open the book presentation for about fifty children yesterday. We used a lot of children as mime actors, ably directed by Lynne while I read the story, which was about Jonah. We had plenty of props provided by Cathy and Teresa, and the spectators were enthralled. We also played games during the afternoon, tennis balls were highly useful so thanks Maidenhead tennis club, Sue and Stella. Bean bags were in abundance thanks to Fran and Teresa.
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