I am working for red cross still, sometimes at the showground and sometimes at the branch doing paperwork- the IDPs get a bit tiring, sometimes it is nice to stay at the branch! But the plan is that this weekend the IDPs should be moving into personal temts- there are 1000 tents and 10,000 IDPs at the showground so we are hoping to arrange family groups of 10 per tent. I have seen the tents- they stretch for along way! Each family group is to also be given a kitchen set and food for a month so that they will be able to look after themselves more, there will be less hastle all around and we will be able to better know that each person is getting their share of the foodstuffs. If 10,000 people have to line up for food once a day at 4pm you can be sure that many are not getting it! The only problem that i see is that the tents are so close together due to the lack of space- but if one goes up in flames and they all will... the other problem is their belongings, most people came with all the belongings that they could carry- sofas, chairs, tables, bicycles, wall fittings... where all these things are going to go i do not know!
yesterday i was helping to pitch said personal tents, they are actually really spacious and nice but it takes along time to do, we did 40 yesterday, around 300 left to do!
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