Transcription of a letter which I received when we arrived back in Scotland from Africa on 17 April, 2006.
P.O. Box, 86
Mfuwe
Mambwe District
Zambia
20th March, 2006
Dear Grant O'Brien and Johnny DR,
The first thing I will say how was trip from Zambia to Scotland. me here I am okay and the other thing I can say to you and Johnny is may God bless you for the Job you have done here in Mfuwe Kakumbi Zambia and you should continue the same spirit.
The first thing, is, you should send me a bible a book for all people, dictionary, radio, solar pannel, carpentry tools, pit Saw, Cross cut Health books from Johnny.
Hence, your help in any form will go a long way in assisting me and the community.
In case you send some money use the above address.
We appreciate with thanks for now and always.
Yours sincerely,
William Phiri (Community Health Worker)
(TB Treatment Partner)
(Yours in Christ Thanks)
P.S. Greetings from Mr Rodger's Phiri and his wife
William and his house built for him by the villagers
Note: William is a saint among men. We first got to know him on a visit to Roger's (our Flatdogs housekeeper who retired when we were at Flatdogs Camp). When we arrived in the village I had noticed a couple of youngsters with handkerchiefs wrapped around their legs. After photographing some children I noticed one the girls with the handkerchief removed from her leg and an open ulcer exposed. I drew Johnny's attention to the girl and Johnny said that she needed to come into the clinic, get an injection and have dressings over the ulcer changed twice daily. William appeared from somewhere out of the woodwork and said that he had some dressings, but would get some more from the clinic. The next day he brought the young girl into the clinic (19km of dirt road with several big hills, and 4 km of flat tarmacked road) on the back of his bicycle and then took her home again. He has subsequently repeated this performance (once with Roger's wife). Johnny and I have given him various items - we presented him with an atlas of the world after I came back from Canada - some vegetable seeds (tomato, aubergine, etc) and gave him the money to buy two new tyres for his bicycle.
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