Dear friends,
Here are some updates…
1 Last Sunday, we were invited to bring a word of hope and life to the children of the orphanage (1 Pe 1: 3-9). It was the first time for me in French although on the end – to speed up – I just started to speak Flemish and a Dutch missionary translated in “Creools”
2 The B-fast (B = Belgium) team brought in for 700Kg or 1,543 Pounds of medical supplies and medicines we could purchase in Belgium thanks to your generous donations. This included 12 packs of Douwe Egberts Coffee (to keep us on speed); Insect repellents (thank God for it), Mosquito nets and a cheese of 12 Kg (26,45 Pounds) for the 2 Dutch families. I believe they will be eternally thankful to the Belgians for it…
3 B-fast team had found (somewhere) an orphan and were very thankful that we took Christel (the orphan) with us in the jeep to the orphanage. Communications with B-fast (official Belgium representation) went so good that they will come tomorrow early in the morning with a medical team to help us out! A pediatrician, emergency Doctor and – if there is need –
even a surgical team will be available.
4/ We got a 10 minutes meeting with Italian representatives of the European Community and 15 tents has been promised. We hope, they will arrive soon!
5/ I have been hunting for many baby medicines in syrups and found them Tuesday!
6/ Needless to say that Sabine did most of the heavy patient traffic in the clinic as I was involved in a lot of networking, medicine hunting and contacts. For me, she is THE doctor of the month!
7/ We had been searching for a week to find our friend Cardiologist Dr. Crandall. In a last attempt today we found him! You will never guess but he offered us French (we say Flemish) frites with mayonnaise and sausages! Yes, God is always good! He also gave us a lot of donations (even the “boobies”
, coagulators on batteries for stopping heavy bleeding in deep wounds) and food and last but not least a huge tent!
8/ We also brought home tonight a lot of boxes with diapers, baby food, baby bottles, children clothes, etc.. from the American base camp.
