Campaign is going pretty well though some places have already run out of nets. The clinics were asked to send in population estimates before getting trained on how to do population estimates, and in many areas where we've visited there are a lot of migrant workers, who are not counted in the census. The first two or three places we visited did have nets but the 'advanced' and 'mobile' sites, served by health agents on motos and in 4x4s, were out as of yesterday. Both teams were taking down names and in a followup campaign after Tabaski (starting Saturday), the redistribution is supposed to take effect and people will gets nets sent over from other districts that had overestimated the need. Fortunately women and kids are still showing up for the vaccines, deworming and Vitamin A, and in places where nets are out things are much more calm. Crowd control was a not a major part of the health agent training and so of course there's a lot of crowding. In some places police were called in to help out. There's not always shade for everyone in line and so tempers can flare easily.
Today Ruth Riley from the WNBA and Diego Gutierrez and Dwayne DeRosario gave bball and soccer clinics, and then demonstrated how to use a mosquito net before handing out (not quite enough) nets to all the kids. Somewhat hokey but they will have nice images for fundraising, bully for them.
Off to take the Admiral shopping now...my commission at Ahmed's is getting huge!
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