Feb 01

Tuesday 13th February 2001, 17:00 hours

Fax received today 12:37 hours from Fares - all is well. Regina has started the 'sewing school' in Magu.

Tabaji sees the doctor in Mwanza about his foot this week.

Thanks for the Microscope and sheets brought by Mark and Sam.

Brian's egg's have hatched 12 chicks and Grace is looking after them!

Message from Mark and Sam:

'To all back in England, especially Rachel and Marley. We finally arrived safely at Bethany on Monday at

5.30pm. Everyone at Bethany was happy to see us. We are slowly adapting to the African climate and

already have a daily work plan mapped out for the 2 weeks. Brian has 12 baby chicks! Congratulations. Best

wishes, Loads of love to Rachel and Marley, Mark and Sam'

Other News:

Last week we tried to buy 4 new 'Talbot Talflo' taps for our standpipe but the suppliers 'T M Products Ltd' of

Winchester would not hear of it and supplied them free of charge. What can we say only a very warm 'thank you'.

We have just heard from Maria De Freitas who as you will recall intended going to Bethany in January but was

taken ill when she was on holiday in South Africa. Maria underwent a successful operation in January and

returned to the UK last week. She now wants to visit Bethany in May/June for two weeks with a view to longer

term work.

Bill Harris, Pat Charnley and Gill Luck are now provisionally booked with Sabena for their trip to Bethany in April
2001

Sunday 11th February 2001, 13.30 hours

Mark and Samantha McVey finally make it to the airport for their two week visit to Bethany.

Photographs as below: (click on the photos for full page version)

Mark and Sam 4am Sunday morning - packed and ready to go.

Mark and Sam at Manchester airport 5am Sunday morning - ready to check-in for their 6.45am flight. Before

reaching Nairobi they will stop at Brussels and Entebbe. They land at Nairobi at 23.05 Sunday night - check-out

and make their way to the Methodist Guest House in Nairobi for about 1am Monday morning. Up at 6am - taxi

to Wilson airport fly out with Mission Aviation Fellowship ( in a small single engine plane) at about 8am and

arrive Mwanza approx 11am. Fares should meet them at Mwanza airport sometime before noon. Then they

head for Mwanza city (45mins journey) - buy everything they need for Bethany and set off for site at about 3pm.

They should meet the children at about 6pm on Monday. They will need a rest!!

Thursday 7th February 2001, 23:00 hours

Here you see a picture of our new (second-hand) microscope which Hilary Murphy finally managed to procure
from a kind

donor. We are arranging for the old one which has recently been very unreliable to be returned for an overhaul.

We received a fax from Fares on the 6th Feb. He confirms safe receipt of faxes we have sent and promises to
pick up Mark

and Samantha McVey from the airport on Monday 12th Feb at 10am.

Tabaji has still not had the operation on his foot and his wound is getting worse. Fares has confined him to a
room where he is

not allowed to run around and make it worse. The other children visit him in his room to play.

The family enjoyed the short time they had with Brian and Rachel and are looking forward to Rachel's return.

I quote from the fax: about Rachel: '...according to the childcare workers and the children especially Regina ....
she seems to fit

at family as she works hard, is good to the children and all the workers'.

Fares says they are excited about Mark and Sam's visit and looking forward to Christopher's return and hope he
can make

some mesh doors to keep out the mosquitos.

Sunday 4th February 2001: 14:00 hours

At out information day we were happy to see Pat Charnley and Gill Luck. Both intend visiting Bethany in April
this year accompanied by Bill Harris