We posted off the cheques to the Nosals this morning and who should turn up on the doorstep this afternoon but, Jean Marie Nosal. As always full of plans to raise money and lots of news of interesting things happening over the next few months. He tires me out just listening to all his plans and we are talking of a man now in his seventy seventh year. He is very concerned about Mali for various reasons, the war has stopped any tourists going and so people in tourism are without work. The rebels although in the North are hiding in those hills, the hostages are still being held and worse thing of all is the number of children going each day to the school for food, which thankfully the Association is managing to feed. He would normally go to oversee operations around now but discretion (and Winnie saying No) has stopped him arranging this visit. He has confidence in the staff he has in the hospital, laboratory and school. On a brighter note he thinks the laboratory is doing such important work that he believes it has saved the lives of 250 children in the last year and we TAG readers have played a big part in that. When he was there before Christmas he negotiated the laboratory fees for the price of blood transfusions which means more transfusions can be undertaken.
He would normally be planning on moving forward with plans but this year he just wants to focus on maintaining the hospital, school and lab at their present level. He wanted readers to know how much he and Winnie appreciate TAG readers helping and I assured him I would let you know and pass on his grateful thanks.
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