Tuesday 8 November

Nairobi...

No luck with the internet. So our new day has begun with sickness for Sarah, Abraham’s wife. She has dysentery. We have medicine which is good. She and Abraham had looked forward to their last day together  but plans are changing. She will return to her place in Zimmerman a township outside Nairobi. Their daughter Esther is gorgeous. She is 11 months old. Who knows when they will all be together again. We hope to make contact with the Australian Embassy to support her application for a visa. Abraham is already an Australian citizen.

We are dismayed by the dislocation in families. Some are still in North Sudan. Others remain in Uganda and Kenya. Others are scattered in Oz, Canada, USA, Holland and all sorts of other places. We met Elizabeth in Juba whose husband went to USA. He came back for the first time last week. She was a happy woman.

We stayed in a university house with Nyiel Kwol. She is teaching organisational psychology and human resource management. She had been working at the University of Limerick, Ireland for years. She has left her 4 children – youngest is 13 - with her South Sudanese husband who is also a uni lecturer. She is committed to building the new Sudan. She is an inspirational woman – an entrepreneur who is trying to create employment and education opportunities to address the massive unemployment

of young people.