Today is a national holiday to celebrate the joining of two political parties, called ‘Saba Saba’, namely ‘7,7’.
However, both of us are working.
Armorel headed off early for the village outreach to Mwakashindye in a full car of medics and mosquito nets. She had a busy day seeing over 250 children and injecting 95% of them. This, however, is what she loves, and though tired had a great day.
We also gave out lots of hats and jumpers kindly knitted by friends and family. Thank you!
I also headed out into the wilds, but I headed out with a delegation of locals. The clinic wants to buy some more farmland around the Shamba, and the buying process is a long complicated one.
Today was the official ‘walking’ part.
All sellers of the land, the buyer, an individual witness, a surveyor (supposedly that was me today) and the village chairman have to walk the boundaries of the plots in question.
So we walked the boundaries, checked which trees where which side of the boundary line and disagreed between plot sizes. I do wonder if Tanzanian acres are slightly larger than English ones.
The next phase is tomorrow when we agree on a price for the land, even though the purchase has already been agreed.
After a long day we are both shattered and we are looking forward to our bed.
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