Despite rain 3000 IDP's got their weekly food

sh. Today we had our big food distribution with corn, sugar, lentils, biscuits and baby food, and everybody was registered. The weather was not very favorable and we had a heavy rain for 1 1/2 hours, so we had to interrupt our distribution and the people found shelter under the roof of the new fire place and in the hospital. Finally, by 5 pm we had served everybody. During the day I also had the opportunity to meet the patients currently being treated in the hospital and learned why they were there. 3/4 of the patients are displaced persons (IDP) and get the treatment as well as the medications free of charge. - Today a DHL truck finally brought the latrines and soaps for our sanitary installations.

Problems with the Custom Authorities

rs. Today the telephone rang and the authority in Nairobi were on the other end. They still didn't want to accept the food offerings that were at the customs: Two palettes with baby food that we got by Air waited for approval and they wanted 47,000 Kenia Shilings for it. We could reduce it to 7000. After a moment of relief a second call: the Ministry of Health asked for 3000 KSh to test the baby food in the laboratory in case the food was poisoned! I was very angry and asked the lady if she also had children at home, who were starving. Hope we have more luck tomorrow.