Nutrition Village Set up

We are back in Maban county, and I have the challenge of starting a programme to treat severely malnourished children from scratch. The results from our earlier survey showed there was a real need for this and so we are working with SIM to set up an inpatient ward and out patient clinic to treat children with severe malnutrition.
As usual with Medair the set up happens fast, we got the tents up on the day they arrived in the plane and admitted the first patients 2 days later. The centre is called Ban Keeyan, Village of Hope in the Maban language. The vision is that by caring for these children we can bring hope to the families that they can have a healthy future






.

Jubatastic

I've had a few weeks to get to know Juba. Being stuck in the office preparing for our nutrition intervention is not my idea of great fun but I did get to be there for moving in to our new house and putting together the furniture with Rebecca, Sophia and Tal.

We had a great Sunday morning walk up the nearby mountain followed by a great breakfast of pancakes (with bananas and nutella of course.