May 26, 2014
Hello again everyone! Another short post for today as this
week was a lot of office work.
I spent a bit of time last week trying to finalise lists of
supplies and medicines that we would like to obtain from donors for MSD and CH
Mulamba. We’ve found a few really great sources of supplies, now we just need
to figure out what we’d like to try to get from whom and, as usual, raise the
required funds.
We spent a good part of the work days this week talking back
and forth with the folks at Mwangaza, an organization operating in the Equateur
province to provide much needed aid to the displaced refugees that have come
over from the Central African Republic. They have asked us to assess and help
with the maternal health crisis they are having there and we have been working
on putting together grant applications and figuring out the logistics of
getting help to them.
Dominique and I looked into getting flights out to there
from here using a missionary flight service, but because of the remote area and
the lack of demand for flights out there, we would have had to charter the
whole plane which was going to cost astronomical amounts so we decided to start
looking into alternatives this week. We ended up at the local in-country
airline office: CAA. The infrastructure of the office did not give us a huge
sense of confidence about the quality of the flights…
[that's K for Kwality...]
But the staff were friendly and helpful and were able to give us a quote that we may be able to work with if we can put this all together.
After our time at the CAA office, I took my first
side-saddle ride on a motorcycle back to our house (was wearing a restrictive skirt). I tried to capture the
moment on my iphone through the rear-view mirror. You can see my head sorta,
and that’s Dominque riding expertly in front.
This past week on Friday was the International Day to End
Obstetric Fistula so we spent Friday tweeting different tidbits of information
on the condition and its causes in order to raise awareness about this
avoidable scourge in third world countries.
Well, that’s about it for news this week. Until next time!
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