The internet, fairly typically for here, is being somewhat temperamental. So this will probably be a pictureless post. I am currently sitting in an air conditioned internet room at the Pemba Beach Hotel. The Pemba beach hotel is a slightly surreal place to be. An oasis of luxury that is quite incongruous compared to the area around.

Yesterday Andy and I spent 4 hours with some of the Korean team, putting about two and a half metric tonnes of food into bags for the disribution of food to widows, which they do here every 2 weeks. Catering at Iris is on a truly industrial scale. They feed 70,000 people every day at their 19 bases in Africa. On Saturday, we went to a villlage called Meize, where they now have an orphanage and a church. About 450 children from the village had come for a church service and for lunch. We gave worming tablets to all the children who had come and then lunch both for them and the children from the orphanage. The 60 children in the orphanage are children from the village who quite literally have no relatives left to look after them.

Last week we got to spend a night in the bush, taking part in an outreach to a village. We got there on the back of a truck. Which seems to be how most people in Africa travel. At the outreach, they showed a copy of the Jesus film, dubbed into Makhua, the local language. then they offer people the opportunity to become Christians and get prayer for healing. As the visitting people, we were tasked with the job of providing said prayer. The whole thing was somewhat bewildering. Lots of people seemed to get healed though. Including a man andy and I prayed for, who went to the front to say that he had regained the sight in his left eye. It had certainly looked better, but as he'd shown absolutely no reaction at all, we were really slightly stunned to hear him claiming to be better.

today we are chilling out mainly. And sweating. it rained this morning so humidity is really high.