It is now sat and we have been here a week. The internet connection is very slow, and we are very hot.
WE have been welcomed well.
We are staying as part of Amaudo 2 the long stay resident community, our house is the same as everyone else's. We have an outside loo and wash area which we are trying to get used to.
We are eating with all the residents 3 meals a day. The food is in large portions but there is not much variety and all complex carbohydrates and fat. The residents are happy to eat what we can not. I find breakfast a plate full of beans hard to eat but Andy has managed it!!
Amaudo 1 where Andy ill be working is the short stay rehabilitation for mentally ill destitutes and is much larger. It is 3 miles but the roads are as bad as can be imagined between the two. Andy may venture trying to ride a motor bike.
We have made it into town today a long journey by minbus (public transport) that was quite expensive. We are not sure how often we will get in.
the best way to communicate is via text our numbers are Hazel +2348084759081 Andy +2348084759080.
We are on a two week induction period. There is another Canadian volunteer Micki who is a nutiotiinist, she is here for 6 months and has been here for 3 already, She found it difficult to get a role for herself but is making one now.
A lot of Nigerian people seem to want to be managed by whites and view that we will get the place back in order. Whereas we just have come to do our jobs!!! But we hope to see some improvements in how people are treated especially in the second village where we are staying this year. Some of the NIgerians have asked us to help bring this about.
We are about to go into the market very busy and try to buy some cloth for bed sheets and then try to find some mosquito repellent we have bought some but not nearly enough.
We are well and will try to write soon,
WE hope to get to know people better here and make some friends.
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Glad you made it and are doing so well - sounds exciting!
We're praying for you. Love Ben, Helen and Callum xxx
Hello you two! Your description of what has been happening thus far sounds like a superb adventure. Please, please, please get Andrew into some loony leather gear and onto a motorcycle. He'd have the time of his life. Also, continue as best you can with those inexplicable mountains of beans. Butter beans, French beans and those lovely runner ones are my faves - got any of those?
Great to hear your news. I too will soon start my very own African adventure. I start work with Tearfund in Darfur, Sudan at the end of March. I'll be working on water and sanitation projects and am very excited!!
I'll keep praying for you both.
xx
Hi guys,
Wow, sounds like the kind of challenge you guys were after - I know that you are the ideal people to be there and bring God's grace and wisdom to the jobs He has for you there. Praying for you both, particularly that you find the friendships and community that you are looking for.
Love Lucy x
Blessings to you, will be praying for you out there.
Fascinating to see the cultural expectation that white people are good managers! My experience differs!
Will pray for protection and provision for you.
Chris M Lewis
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