jackie65

By jackie65

Lost what day it is

The past few days have been interesting with periods of no water...no electicity ..and worse of all no Internet lol. I was lucky enough to spend some time visiting clinics in the Batsinda area and met a lonely doctor called Jack. He has a private clinic where consultations cost 500f the equivalent of 50p. When a good job as a labourer only pays 2000f a day which is £2, it is quite expensive for this poor community. The street kids have been attending this clinic as two of them had malaria and one had typhoid, Dr Jack knew the kids were on the streets and on many occasions did not charge a penny. He is a very good man working with very limited equipment in comparison to our hospital standards. He had a BP machine, thermometer, blood glucose meter a microscope and centrifuge. Along with his bare hands and knowledge he is treating this community to the next of his ability.
The street kids are now in there new home and in there new beds and learning disipline and prayer for the first time. It is truly remarkable the change in these boys in the 2 weeks we have been here, which is all down to the hard work and commitment of Comfort Rwanda lead by Callum Henderson. Your donations and sponsorship of these children has made the process of getting them housed and save so much quicker and I thank you all. We will be visiting them again before we leave and will give you a final update on how they have settled.
We were working in the fields yesterday helping a very remote community prepare the land fir planting maze. This group has had very few visitors or offers of help for the past 21 years and no one to listen to them on the atrocities they suffered during the genocide. After a few hours of hard labour we say with them and hard some testimonies of there experiences. They are still very traumatised and it is hard to believe this all happened in OUR lifetime. There isn't space here to tell there stories or the other amazing and harrowing things I have seen here but once home I will be happy to met up with anyone interested to tell you more....and you may also want to get involved :-)
My picture today is of a young girl approximately 10 years old working in the field with us, in fact she put us to shame how hard she worked and put into perspective how easy our lives are.

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