Monday 17th

Awoke to a misty morning warm and sultry. Breakfast with Jonathan before he flew off to Nairobi for his conference. Then we produced a letter for the minister of education so that we could introduce Aquafilters to the schools in the study area otherwise the children would be getting clean water at home but still having dirty water in school. We sent off Rob to deliver the letter to the ministry of education and he managed to get in to see the minister who was an old acquaintance from a previous project so we quickly got he agreement.

Meanwhile we went in to see John Gakwanda who showed us his plans £200,000 extension to his clinic.
Then we travelled down to the clinic and saw how the foundations are already being laid. He is praying for the rest of the money to come in to see it  rising from its foundations.
 The clinic is very busy with patients crowded everywhere, we were greeted by our old friends we had met on previous visits. I presented them with some equipment with which they were very pleased. Then to the purpose of the visit which was to sit down with Martin the data manager  to go through the data entry for the study. This all seemed to go well  until we got home to find that all the data on Rob's data stick had been corrupted by viruses. Then an excursion back to the ministry with an aquafilter for the minister only to find he was not there. So an enormous dinner of avocado fish and chips followed by the sweetest chunks of pineapple. Some good news afterwards it sounds as though the distribution to the other clinic has been agreed and could even start as soon as Wednesday.
Tea bible study and prayer in the lounge, and then to bed.

•                                                       The busy clinic

New clinic extension 

                                                        Rob with data manager