monday

We got up early and took a combi to the Main Mall to go to an opticians. Annoyingly when he looked in my eye the contact had gone (it had definitely still been there the night before as I could feel it and see it, maybe it fell out in the shower in the morning). The optician sternly warned me never to fall asleep with it in again, and we bought some eyedrops from the pharmacy. After having lunch we went to the office, and spent the afternoon typing in names, checking our emails (we’d left the computer at Martha’s so hadn’t had it over the weekend), and writing another letter to the land board about the proposed orphanage. The higher land board says we must get the sketch from the local land board of what they want to build on the site instead of the orphanage. Unfortunately such a sketch does not exist as of yet (despite them being certain three months ago that an orphanage could not be built there), and their designer cannot do one for a while. So we wrote a letter explaining what was going on. Some lovely Australian ladies are also trying to raise money for AAP and have requested that some videos be filmed of the children. So tomorrow (fingers crossed) we are going to Mmanoko and will be doing some filming, etc, as well as giving our talk and handing out food. Here’s hoping we can find vehicles!