Week 3

Suddenly here we are in week 3.  Amazingly have discovered that my friend Catherine who works for VSO has been to Mahendranagar!!  Incredible...  not really on the tourist trail.  The VSO volunteers here are working in education.


Spent the day in clinic mentoring yesterday.  The real photo opportunities here are the ones that remain in your head - too voyeuristic to photograph.  The 7 year old girl yesterday who had walked 5 days to take the bus to clinic and has TB and HIV coinfection - asleep on the ground outside with a respiratory rate of 60/minute; the young boy in the middle of a rubbish tip by the side of the road looking for pens (the refuse workers have been on strike for ages); the middle aged woman being wrapped up for her open air cremation and her grieving husband circling the pyre three times as is the custom.....


Today we have been just outside Dhangadi to another STI clinic and the Community Home Based Care teams for monitoring and a very interesting Q&A session.


Next week we go to Doti and will be away from the internet for the week although we are coming back a day early because of the Maha Shivarati festival on Friday.  After that we are likely to be in the office more often as we get our presentations and final reports compiled.


Please check out the 2009 report for my friend Mike's charity in Kenya here.


Have a great week Txx