Thank you for visiting my blog! I'm a newly qualified physiotherapist from Northamptonshire, England. On the 29th August 2007 I'm flying back to Tanzania to volunteer my physiotherapy skills. I'll be working at Neema Crafts, which employs disabled people giving them a hope and a future and treating children in the community. I'm planning to spend 4 months in Iringa and you can keep up with what happens here in my blog!

11 September 2007

Nearly two weeks!

Hello! I've been here in Iringa for a week and a half now. The journey via bus was 7 hours and we were lucky to get 'semi luxury' (however this is more like the worst buses you get in the Uk - e.g there was a bolt on the door to stop it flying open round bends!). The most amusing part of the journey were the 3 stops to weigh the bus on tiny weighing scales- the front first, followed by the back of the bus! We were treated to beautiful scenery and loads of elephants, giraffe, baboons and a warthog!

It's lovely to be back in Iringa, the weather is sunny every day and getting hotter. There are lots of flowers and brightly coloured blossom. I've been busy helping to set up the physio gym with two dutch physios who just turned up wanting to help. We're having a few differences of opinion between their idea of how it should work and neema crafts idea of how it should work - so your prayers for that would be great. Im going out to a village tomorrow where the pastor is really enthusiastic about reaching out to disabled people (who are normally hidden away and are the poorest of the poor). This is really where I'd like to focus - working together with village communities to establish a community run programme with support from a tanzanian physio for drop in clinics in the village once a month. Your prayers for this would be great too.

Hope you're all well, thanks for your support and God bless.