Thursday, 28 February 2019

In the Community of Msholozi and a tour of Mercy Air - Thursday 28th February


Day 12

Cathy (on right with red shoulder tabs)
and the rest of the Clinic team at Msholozi
In the community of Msholozi is a health and wellness clinic. The Clinic is run by a team of nurses from Africa School of Missions and from Mercy Air.  It is about 20 minutes from the Mercy Air base. We first met up with Cathy  (one of the nurses from Mercy Air)  who, along with another nurse, told us about the beginning of the clinic and how it has grown over time. Is was great seeing the children play with the balloons we brought, but they all popped in the end! The children were there while there parents went into the clinic, so we played with them in the meantime.

Playing outside the clinic at Msholozi
Then when we got back to mercy air and had tour around the whole site and got to sit and control some of the planes and a helicopter. Then we had our final debrief where we talked about the past two weeks and wrote letters to ourselves that will be posted in a few weeks when we're at home and have settled back into our lives, before having a braai which is a South African barbecue with some of the people that live here. This brought us to a great end of a brilliant trip before our last night, final bits of packing and our flight home tomorrow.

We hope you have enjoyed reading our blogs. We have had a wonderful time in South Africa, meeting amazing and inspirational people that we will never forget.

By Florie and Connor


A last few pics for you...  see you back in the UK!


Where is the handbrake on this?

A team photo before our Braii ( BBQ) 


Making friends in Msholozi

Up close and personal with the Mercy Air helicopter

A view from the Msholozi clinic