By Martin Cradick | Project Leader
The fundraising has been going well, and although we have not yet reached our target for building a well, we have been able to help fund emergency operations that have been needed in the Baka community.
Mbabelli needed to go to the hospital in Salapoumbé, and we were able to finance this as well as give some small funds to his aging father who stayed in the village so that he could buy food while his son was in hospital. Happily he is now fully recovered and back in the village. We have also enabled Djimbo to have a much needed hernia operation.
We have achieved sufficient funds to train a Baka midwife. Our contact in Cameroon who will be coordinating this has been on sabatical leave, but will be back by the end of this year. We are arranging a meeting with her in early January so that the training can be completed as soon as possible.
Communication with this area of Cameroon is hard from UK. Salapoumbe where the hospital is based has no phone network so we have to communicate through the nurse based in Moloundou who visits Salapoumbe about once every other week. Most new initiatives commence when our field team are on the ground which happens once or twice a year. We haven't made a visit since starting the campaign with GlobalGiving, but the next will be in January 2014 when the projects on the ground will begin in earnest.
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