"God Day"... or "Corpus Christi". A day of parades and people singing (think march of witness with Christian reggae music and lots of dancers). One of the processions went straight past our accommodation, and of course, I didn't have a camera with me.
We then went with the camp committee to the beach to celebrate the day in relaxing style. A game or two of soccer (TSA staff 6 df Camp Committee 2) in the sun, a swim in the sea (not the cleanest beach admittedly) followed by a traditional meal... what else but chicken, rice and beans.
Sadly it was straight back to work when we got home. We discovered that while we were out having fun, some vandals had upset the camp. The guys that were suspended while we investigated the sexual harrassment claims at one of the water delivery points had come back today, broken into the water cage and slashed the water bladder. Their actions have cost us 40,000L of water for the camp today. That's 2L less per person (in context, this is a quarter of our total water delivery).
Sadly, we were thinking of reinstating them in jobs away from people (e.g. cleaning toilets or removing camp rubbish) but this means that they won't get their work back.
We've had to go into pretty quick repair mode. Tomorrow some technicians will replace the bladder with tight security around them. (There have been further threats of physical violence by these guys). We have a policeman now stationed at the delivery point (not sure how much good this will do - they are glorified traffic cops). And the police are now interviewing the vandals. We have also arranged a meeting between the camp committee, security team, police and water staff tomorrow to try and find a long term solution. My offsider Heather will look after this as I already have appointments at another place.
Of course, the electricians have caught wind of this, and walked off the job again...
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