Salaama!Hope you all had a great Easter.I am now safely installed in my host family in Dakar, Senegal, where I'll be spending the next 2 months.But more about that later...I had an awesome time in Mozambique and was very sad to leave.As well as meeting some brilliant people (as always) I had great fun interacting with all the kids and helping out where I could.The 3 main activities I got involved in were... the horses, the village feeding and the clinic.By far my favourite was the clinic (no surprises there).As well as observing the nurses and doctor at the clinic in the centre (which is open to local villagers as well as children in the centre) we had a weekly medical outreach trip to one of the nearby villages called Mieze.We opend our "clinic" in the shade outside and were always mobbed with people - a mixture of patients and curious observers.One of the other visitors, Lee, and I were put to work with the simpler cases such as cleaning and dressing the dozens of "faridas" (wounds), giving scabies treatment and washing out infected eyes.As their diet is so poor and many of them are immunosupressed, something as minor as a small cut can be fatal if it gets infected.The doctor and nurse were then able to deal with the more complicated cases as best they could - I was suprised at how many drugs they had access to, although of course we couldn't help everybody.Every day at lunch, Arco-Iris provided lunch for around 150 village children.As well as making sure that they are getting at least one good meal a day, there was often a teacher there as well teaching the children how to read (many of them can't afford to go to school).Our main role was to try and keep the peace - many of the older children would try to steal food from the younger ones or try and trick us into thinking they hadn't been given food yet to get a second plate. One day we had some beans left over and there was almost a riot as the kids fought to get at the extra food.This really wasn't what I was expecting. After all, if you have nothing, you're grateful for everything you get right?But of course it makes perfect sense if you don't know where your next meal is coming from.I also got involved with taking care of the horses and giving the children pony rides.The main vision behind this project is to help some of the kids who have been abused learn to form positive relationships again, and to help them develop a sense of responsability.On top of all that there was plenty of opportunity to get to know some of the children, from cuddling 3mth old Akira in the baby-house to taking some of the older girls down to the beach. Most of the older ones spoke some english, but the younger ones would quite happily sit on your lap and chatter away in portugese, whether you understood them or not!Tomorrow I start my 3 orientation days before being let loose in a local school.They still haven't told me exactly what I'll be getting up to - and I've just discovered that many of the younger ones wont speak much French, so this could be more complicated than I had imagined...still, I'll just have to wait and see!I can't belive I've now hit my last country before coming home - time has absolutely flown by!Lots of love to everyone as always,Xxx