Bye Bye Daddy!

Sam is off to Kenya today for a week. He is attending a MAF regional Quality and Safety meeting along with another colleague from our programme here and joining with colleagues from all the different MAF programmes in Africa. It will be a time of learning and sharing as we continue to ensure that in all our operations we are putting safety and quality at the forefront. 

Alongside this meeting Sam will also be trying to get a visa for Thailand for the International Managers Meeting for MAF that is taking place in Bangkok this year in late April. For Sam, travelling on a Ugandan passport can at times prove quite difficult in relation to how, when and where to get visas for various meetings he has to attend. This is just one of the disparities in life that we have learnt to just get on with but it does add a layer of difficulty at times! Sam will try and get the visa this week while in Kenya but if that will not work he will have to add a week to his travels in April to go via the UK to get the visa before heading to Thailand. Please pray the visa can be issued this week in Kenya and can be postdated forward to the time of his travel. 

It has been a very busy week work wise for Sam as he has been pursuing certain permissions and authorisations that we need to be able to continue to fly here before he leaves for the week. This has meant he has worked most of the weekend to ensure the programme here is good to go while he is away. We are hoping for some time together when he returns - date to be confirmed depending on the visa!

Life here seems to have quietened down a bit with regards to the issues I raised in the last blog post but it is evident they have not gone away. Please do continue to pray for the people of Chad and for our safety this week as we move around the city on school runs, especially while Sam is away. It does make me a little more anxious!!

The girls have been busy drawing and writing this morning to send Sam on his way!!