First day of running the clinic.
The team was up early and looked fantastic in their shirts (except Tim who put his in the wash as he had been wearing it since leaving Brisbane). We were invited to join the Eagles Wings staff daily devotions, which was fantastic. We opened at 9 and saw the students from Kanyala and Monkey Fountain Campus (Eagles Wings Christian Community Schools). We ran some education programs and gave insokanda (worm) tablets and multivitamin and vitamin A tablets to all the students (over 200 students).
In the afternoon word had got out that a clinic was opened and many mothers with young babies attended. We are fortunate in that we have the services of 2 local nurses (Florence & Vutiway) to help us. A number of the local students from Eagles Wings are helping with translating. We closed the clinic to the public around 4.30 but it was near 6.00 before the last patient left. Our team are all a bit tired after day 1 but feeling good. Andrew still getting over being mistaken for a pastor upon his arrival in Ndola – Tim can’t believe it!
