The adventure has started

Finally getting on the internet, since a week before I arrived there has been no connection to the internet in Masanga, now we are on shopping and internet tour to Makeni.. Now you will get a long report about what has happen the last week and about my project here. Friday the 5th of March Now my adventure has finally started, but right now I’m stocked in Heathrow airport – delayed two-three hours. Something was wrong with the first aeroplane, so they had to find another one, that one has also problems, so now we are waiting for them to fix it. My African-life has started.. Yesterday I came to Copenhagen, where I had a goodbye-lunch with my friend Cathrine and her/my little sister. Then I had a meeting with Peter Bo Jørgensen alias Dr. Peter. We had a quick and very nice meeting about my time in Masanga.. I stayed overnight at my cosine, and her wonderful husband drove me to the airport this morning.. This will probably be quite a long ‘story’ because I want to give you some information about the project: Masangas Friends was formed in 2005 by the Danish doctor Peter Bo Jørgensen. The purpose of the association is helping to rehabilitate Masanga hospital in Sierra Leone. Masanga Hospital was before the civil-war in 1991-2002 a reputable hospital, but it was unfortunately destroyed during the civil-war. The Hospital's vision is to create growth and development, which provides access to health care to the population. The aim is to get local employed to run and manage the hospital itself in the future. The operations at the Hospital are done in cooperation with national and regional health authorities in Sierra Leone. The purpose of my project; ‘Masanga Laundry’ is to help building a high hygiene standard in the hospital, in an environmentally sustainable way. My mission is figure out an acceptable way to wash the laundry from the hospital. I have to organize, make a plan for now and the future and try to run the laundry. Maybe I have to recruit and train suitable staff to continue the operation of the laundry. Also I will have to assist Anne Mette, a pharmacy student, in the further development of Masanga Pharmacy. Yesterday Peter told me about the educationally part of the project, and told me that we (the two medicine student, Anne Mette and me) might have to start up the education of a class of nurse aids. There is a program ready to be used it is just a matter of time. That’s quite interesting and I hope that it’s going to happen. Then Peter also told me about his plan about using me as a nurse down here, even though they in the beginning didn’t wanted me to work here as a nurse (because of my non-existent experiences as a nurse). That part of our talk I really liked. Now I’m off to Sierra Leone, only three hours delayed.