Doctor ! Doctor !

I have just spent the last two weeks down at the orphanage in Malavela, and also briefly in South Africa, leaving our team of eager church builders to start work building our second "church plant" this year. I got some essential repairs done on the Land Rover and renewed my visa.
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I then spent several days at the orphanage with Martha and her team of carers with the children. A few weeks ago I made contact with a Brazilian lady called Yara who heads up the medical center, at the Iris Ministries orphanage in the town of Maputo.
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She invited us to bring our children to get checked out by the visiting doctor. Fourteen of us bundled into our Land Rover as we set out on what for the children, was a huge adventure!

We were all well received. Merlinda, the lady doctor has a great heart for the kids and gave each one of them special attention, as well as a good dose of worming and vitamin tablets, myself included! (I got the feeling we were all probably leaving with fewer friends than we came with !!)
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We are fairly regularly popping into the orphanage in Maputo gleaning what tips we can from the team of nurses and carers who run that part of the work there, and we are most grateful for their keenness to pass on information and help.
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