A busy week

Monday- A 4 year old girl who lives opposite us in the flats, fell head first off the first floor platform onto a rock, that's about a 15 feet fall. It's all about who you know here. I was able to ring Daniel and have a plane standing by to medevac her to a hospital where they could treat her injury. She had fractured her skull, but she was operated on that night and is now doing well. Praise God that he guided all our decisions and MAF was able to help save the life of a local child. Consequently we are now very popular with our neighbours. My new project is to build safety rails on all the flats and also 3 new toilets. The toilets aren't related to the fall, I just thought they needed more than one falling down toilet for 3 blocks of flats. I'm the visionary in these situation, so it's now up to the provisionary (Daniel) to come up with the necessary finance.

Tues- We had a flying visit from someone in our church in South Oxhey. She works with Word for the World and was doing some work in Morogoro, about 3 hours from here. She came for the afternoon and one night. It must have been the shortest visit we have had so far and the quickest tour of Dodoma ever.

Wed- I had my ladies meeting in the morning and in the afternoon there was an afternoon in compound A at some one's house playing in the paddling pool. Well actually mostly playing out of it with the mud, but it was great fun. The pool is still closed, so these desperate times call for creative options.

Thurs- was meeting day. We had our family review with the program manager, Daniel met with the TRA (Tanzanian revenue authority) about some tax issue, I had a parents meeting at school and then in the evening was the international staff meeting.

Fri- There was a simulated emergency exercise in the hangar. The scenario was that one of planes had crashed and one member of staff had been raped. I decided to stay out of it having spend all Monday afternoon embroiled in a real emergency.

In the afternoon the whole team gathered at the airport to see the return of ZBZ. (our plane that crashed 2 years ago and that has been in maintenance in America) Over the last week it has been making its long journey back from America. It will be great to have the option of 2 caravans to fly.