sh. A day full of activities and suprises here in Kasambara (Nakuru). We managed to install 35 tents for our refugee camp at the Rhein-Valley Hospital and hope to finish the remaining 15 on Thursday. A couple of volunteers helped us preparing the ground so that the tents could be put in place and properly fixed. The sun was burning our faces and the sweat flew down the chins. Then we had to think of the next steps: ordering mattresses and getting blankets. I quickly called Heinz Heer from "kidstokids" in Switzerland and asked him to check with Erich Kühnis, President of the Rhein-Valley Hospital Association, how we could get some in the next couple of days. Heinz had the idea of contacting again Thomas Kumpera from the catastrophy services at the Swiss Red Cross and he promptly agreed to donate 300 blankets. Soyana promised to bring them from the capital Berne to the Airport in Zurich and SWISS Airlines agreed to transport them by Air this Friday free of charge to Nairobi. It is a 500 kg delivery. Our refugees will be more than grateful! Today we had our first big downpour so the urgency of having a tent camp is obvious. Hope the sunny days will still prevail in the near future.
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