Dear all I thought you might just like to read an email I wrote to my boss (who is currently in the UK). My english has been edited for the UK team to use as story! It gives you a little idea of the progress we have made at DMCC. "Today at DMCC a lady aged in her mid 20's was admitted very early in the morning.She was not able to stand up, had a very ,very high breathing rate (twice normal), was gasping for breath, and was clearly very pale.The night nu...

Hi everyone!! Although Mike is aiming to write whole novels in each blog update, it was time I wrote something here too! The work at Dreamland Medical Care Centre is very busy but we have seen some encouraging progress and are doing lots of work in the community too as bi-weekly medical outreaches have just started again. With some valuable help from our friend (and fellow IcFEM volunteer) Steve Small, a short film has just been produced about Dreamland. Here i...

Looking to the future (by Mike) A key scene from the film The Matrix sees Morpheus offering Neo two choices, in the form of a red or a blue pill. Whichever pill he chooses affects his immediate and eventual destiny. Obviously this is pretty symbolic for many individual choices we have to make, from the biggest to the smallest issues. Together Becky and I took what seemed like a big decision last year to leave the UK for warmer climes, and our lives have been rad...

It's funny how things can change. Our principal memories from January 2010 involve debating issues like whether a 13 tog duvet and a sweater was sufficient or whether we should put the heating on again, building projects delayed awaiting a temperature rise to allow the concrete to set properly, a treacherous morning commute in Becky's Mazda MX5 over snow to find a line of medical professional colleagues with broken limbs in the A&E queue and a bus sliding d...

With the UK being covered by a blanket of the white and cold stuff, it's frankly bizarre to find the weather getting warmer. Yes, yes, I know it's not what you want to hear, but having headed out here over 7 months ago expecting to find blazing sunshine, we've experienced one of the wettest and longest rainy seasons they've had here in the last 20 years! Rumours are that the extreme weather will continue by flipping into a very, very hot period, so we'll be tryin...