Shite shirts is a face book page which I follow, pics of folk wearing shite shirts,
silly but it makes me laugh. I found this one in some donated clothing, it’s so
bad that it’s good…..if that makes any sense. It also makes me look huge, which
I’m not (anymore!). It made the WiL staff and fellow vollies laugh so it was worth
humiliating myself for a few minutes.
Saturday was spent at the Mango Tree, a local bar,
raising awareness of Walk in Love and showing folk what the tailors make, After
expenses we did make some money but, more importantly, brochures were handed
out and people are aware of who and where we are and what we do. Hopefully
we’ll be doing more of these events in the coming months
Monday saw me at a local private clinic with little Joeli,
taking him for a blood test, less traumatic than the government one where he
would have had to wait and get very distressed. His iron level has improved but
he has lost weight and now has pneumonia.
Next stop is Dr Matthews, a paediatrician at a private hospital
Tuesday bought a 2 ½ hour trip out to Karatu to see Mama
Teddy and the girls. She was drunk, Teddy is supposedly at her sister’s in
Arusha but Irene was there. She appeared to remember me and loved the biscuits
which I’d baked for her. She looked scruffy and dirty but seemed healthy, we
bought dry goods, vegetables, dried fish and paid the rent for 2 months. Is
this family viable? Time will tell, we will increase the frequency of the
visits and monitor the family closely. There is a ‘brother’ of mama Teddy on
the scene and he has promised to keep an eye on this little family. These
little girls deserve so much more I could have posted a sweet picture of Irene, but she pulls such funny faces that I decided to include this one
Finally this week we said goodbye to Lucy C at Shanga
restaurant in Arusha, a fellow volunteer and great supporter of Walk in Love.
This is the down side of vollie work-getting to know folk then having to say
goodbye. She is a shining example of the youth of today, at 21 years old she
has been acting director whilst the boss is in the States and has worked her
socks off over the past 3 months. We always hear the bad things about the
younger generation in the UK-getting drunk, work shy etc etc but what about the
Lucys of this generation? They don’t make the headlines in the national press,
although they should. Thanks to her one little girl’s life has been changed,
she saw a need, raised awareness now 11 year old Eleanezer has a future. Lucy
you are very much loved and will be missed. Sorry about embarrassing you Lucy, but credit should be given where it's due
I wonder what next week will bring? Rain for sure x
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