Chronological order

I would like to remind you all that my posts are not in chronological order, since I don't have so much free time as to post something new directly after it happened. So issues I'd like to talk about in my blog tend to pile up a bit. We did NOT go on vacation while our kids from the Oasis had Dengue. Everybody who read the post about the Rinjani to the END should know that, too.

Since we had so many cases of Dengue we,

- closed the Oasis out of SAFETY reasons, not beacuse we felt like this was the right moment for taking a vacation!

- we spend the entire last week searching for sponsors to build sewer systems in the village.

- We had a meeting with the villagers and the health department of West Lombok to educate the villagers in how to handle the sick people and prevent the disease from spreading.

- we arranged a grand clean up which every villager had to attend...it ended up only being the Oasis and about 6 women that helped during this clean up.

-we also arranged for garbage collection by the government.

- the village was fogged two times with insecticites.

- We visited the sick people and advised the families in how to handle the illness.

- we spend hours at the hospital, which is 60 km from our home to help the people with all arrangements there, and speak to the doctors. Since most of the villagers have no idea how to handle this situation.

- We arranged for the poorest of the families to get a kartu miskin, a document that states that they have no property whatsoever, so that the families could get a free medical treatment in emergency cases.

I can assure you that we are not bathing our bellys in the sun while the village has to go through such a major crisis. I would advise everybody who got the wrong idea to read my posts again. Just looking at the pictures might get you the wrong idea.

Lara (Not the Oasis)