This is the planting season in our part of the world and so all able body people are out and about preparing their fields for their maize and peanut crops. Sandy my colleaque has been very busy organising teams to go out to an area which she is cultivating in order to help provide food for our nutrition centre.
We always have patients who cannot pay their hospital bills with cash so their relatives ask for work while they are away from home so they are happy to go out for the day to work in fields. It is also a source of income for the people looking after orphans here at Katoka so there is never a shortage of people to go and make up the teams.
End of Sept is also the time for the new school year to start so I have been busy with our sponsorship programme for orphans. We always help first of all the children being looked after by members of staff and it is surprising how many of them have 3-4 other children integrated into their families for various reasons...children motherless because of death in childbirth and aids orphans are high on the list.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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