Camp toilets almost finished

rs. Our improvised toilets are almost finished. We worked hard the whole week to digg the earth wholes, to cut the wood pieces and to get the needed materials. Now only the plastic sheets are missing. By the way, in the meantime the people could use our hospital toilets.

During the day I made some plans to properly organize life in the camp. Discipline is of key importance. We have to include the help of these people to bring an order into their daily life. This is general cleaning and especially of the sanitary installations, who is in charge for the fire place and a laundry plan for the different tents. The Kenyans are not so easy to handle, so you have to tell them the things many times until they do it. Without a lot of patience it's impossible to survive. It was an active Sunday and not much time for my household or office work...

First cholera death in Nakuru town

It's now 7 pm and I just got the latest news that a girl died of cholera when she was brought to the hospital in Nakuru town.

The different tribes could live together peacefully

sh. This was a day of organization. We had to plan the last things so that the 30 toilets for men women in our camp can be installed tomorrow. The sanitary situation has to be under control, otherways it is not possible for us to handle the refugees in the camp. We have to be strict that all regulations are observed. Together with our medical care and the disposal of fresh drinking water the minimum requirements are given. Thanks to Mama Matata we also should get the 300 blankets donated by the Swiss Red Cross by tomorrow. We still had to pay 18,000 KsH but luckily the Swissport Kenya abstained from collecting the storage fees of 90,000 KsH.

These young men in our camp demonstrate that it is absolutely possible that people from different tribes can peacefully live together. All the hatred is only a dark vision
in some people's minds!

Building our own toilets

While driving to the hospital this morning, I came accross many security posts and people still are on the road with all they have. In the hospital I met a new patient: a young student was there with a burnt foot. Our doctor John and nurse Wilder treated him. He needed an infusion with antibiotics, because the wound was already inflamed. Outside on our ground works progressed to build a simple toilet. As the church's public toilets have been closed we have to make something on our own. Here on the countryside no machines are used, everything is done with hard manpower. The day's activities lasted until 7 pm and suddenly I realized that I have forgetten to take a proper meal, so I was preparing my combined dinner/lunch. Today Spagetthi are on the menu plan...

The church closed the toilets - unbelievable!

rs. When I arrived at the hospital ground, people were already waiting in line to get their daily food ration. After I parked my car a woman came to me and asked where she can use a toilet, because two days ago the church closed the public toilets! This is "love your next like yourself" practiced by the Catholic Church... Then I went to the hospital and Niaga from our crew came and said they fear further aggression by some groups of people and he questioned if we should give out food today. So we carefully served group by group, first those who are registered, then the Kasambara group, those from Thugunui and then the rest. The distribution was finally more or less quiet. Only 3 men wanted to push forward in line but our guard brought back the order. And some people even thanked us for our help and were happy to be taken care of. After work, we discussed plans how we could build new simple toilets as son as possible.

Then later in the afternoon the rain blessed us again ...