Hi Val
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No 1 A badly sited tap creates a big problem when, as the mud rises, the taps which are used for hair & face washing, washing up, filling containers with water, clothes washing etc are only about 15cm above the filth, today carpenter Ben who joined the team yesterday started building a platform to lift the whole lot out of the murk & create a cleaner area, next we need a pump...
No 2 Part of the carpentry team, Sahid in the middle is from Iran, he is a lovely chap, speaks very little English, tonight he showed us pictures of his wife & grown up daughter. I have to say that it hit us all hard seeing photo's of such a happy, prosperous family one of whom is now sadly living in a refugee camp, so many innocent people, so much tragedy...
No 3 The warehouse, Every day we do several runs in the van & fill up with shoes, clothes, blankets, cooking pots etc which we take to the camp. People are trying their best but stuff is far too slow to get from here to the camp, by sheer force of character we have got around the distribution system & are amongst the very few people who have free access to distribute as we feel right.
No 4 For a growing operation we needed a new bigger carpenters camp & here it is. Ates whom we mentioned had lost all his id so cannot go home to London has been made foreman & has a growing team of solidarity behind him from a multi lingual workforce - he is a clever man, as well as being a carpenter he speaks fluent Turkish & Arabic as well as English & French, an asset to any community.
