Monday

Today was up and down. I started with an attempt to reconcile my cash float. Would have been fine if I was working in one currency, and not three.

I met with a local Corps Officer first thing to talk about whether we can assist people connected with the Corps and had to explain that if we help, we help everyone, not just Corps folk. But the positive side was he is willing to offer recreational activities in the camp and his home league may be able to work with the city to offer a micro-finance project with some women of the camp in a laundering business.

When I got to the camp itself the road was blocked at one end by a protest - it's a national holiday tomorrow so everyone is taking the chance to have a say. The other end of the road was blocked by a heap of rubbish. Someone decided to get rid of it - so they set it on fire.

There was a poor old lady we found in the camp. The camp committee asked if we could help get her into care. She suffers incredibly from mental illness. We tried a local asylum-style facility but they are overrun and referred us elsewhere. One of my team are trying to follow this up now.

One good piece of today is that one of the first drains was marked out, and we met with the committee about how many people we are going to have to move to make the drainage system work for everyone. This process is going to take some significant negotiation.

The four new members of our security team had their hands full today. On their first day on the job, too. Sadly a fight broke out at one of our water delivery stations. We are going to work with teh delivrey team to see if we can improve the security, and perhaps dedicate one delivery point to women only for safety sake.

Otherwise it is unbearably hot and humid this evening. Late today it was still 36 degrees and about 90% humidity.