Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Report from Sudan

Report from Sudan: Dad spent about 10 days in the E. part of Sudan in the vicinity of Kurmuk, on the Ethiopian border. His job was to survey dirt airfields for possible emergency use by the medical team he accompanied to Sudan. The team, from Medical Teams Worldwide, was in Sudan to provide medical and dental care to the people in the villages. Sudan is a very desolate place, but the local people are friendly and hospitable.

When the alternator went out on our truck, the driver removed and repaired it on the side of the road.


His tool kit, in an old oil container.


A free lunch provided by the villagers in Deya Mansur. No tellin' what it was, but I ate it and thanked them...and I felt fine later!


One of the soldier hitchikers who climbed into our truck. "SPLA" is the Sudanese People's Liberation Army.


A lady obtaining wash water from a dry riverbed. Life is "hard" here to say the least.

3 comments:

The P Family said...

Dad also got to walk around London, England during a nine-hour layover between flights. He passed Buckingham Palace, and saw London Bridge. He also bought Mom some English tea as a gift!

Billy said...

Welcome back, Dave ~

Thanks be to GOD for His hand of protection and providence over you and your family during your travels!

The LORD JESUS CHRIST be magnified!

With love,
Billy Hoffmann
(ex-Navy frogman)

"Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." Psalm 41:1-3 [KJV]

Billy said...

Welcome back, Dave ~

Thanks be to GOD for His hand of protection and providence over you and your family during your travels!

The LORD JESUS CHRIST be magnified!

With love,
Billy Hoffmann
(ex-Navy frogman)

"Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness." Psalm 41:1-3 [KJV]