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One of Kate’s friends has been amazing enough to offer to do us a website for adopt a person (and pay for it – he is amazing!), so we spent quite a lot of time researching stuff on the web trying to sort out writing the content for it. Also finalised a couple of letters (with various dramas involved therein). They are appealing to the land board because a Chief had granted them permission to use a piece of land to build and orphanage on (they don’t have the funding yet but getting the land is the first step), and the local land board refused it because ‘it’s earmarked for village expansion’. Surely an orphanage counts as this? Anyway, that refusal letter was dated in April, was received by AAP in May, specifies in the letter that any appeals must be made within four months, and has only now been actually written (possibly hasn’t been sent off yet but I’m not sure). Martha also had quite a blow because she had reapplied to First National Bank for funding (they previously donated a lot but then withdrew this at the start of the year), and had really been hoping that they would reconsider, but they still refused. This means that AAP cannot afford to send out volunteers to bring food to the villages (leaving dried food to last some people during the week) on a weekly basis as they used to. Now they can only bring food to the villages once a month (they still feed people in Gaborone every day though). We also designed and wrote up a talk for older teenagers about AIDS, talking more about condoms, how circumcision does not fully protect, etc. Tomorrow we are going to another village, further away than the last one we went to, and will give a talk to some 14-16 year olds there. Luckily they have a clinic at this village so we will be able to say go there to get free condoms, HIV tests and learn how to put a condom on properly (which saves us trying to show how to with a banana which might I think end up with me, Kate and the teenagers falling over from laughing too much).