A bit of cleaning work...	...the container arrives...
...the first pallet is loaded on...	...filling up...	...nearly there!

n Tuesday 24/02/04 a second container of much-needed medical supplies & equipment left Tavistock, bound for Uganda. With the help of a local farmer and his tractor, members and friends of Tavistock Community Church took just over three hours to load more than 500 boxes of medical supplies along with important medical equipment such as an X-ray machine and a special baby incubator. All of this work was to help set up a field hospital and a small hospital/diagnostic centre in Fort Portal, Uganda (see map below).

Tavistock Community Church has been working with a charity called Outreach to Africa, who are supplying the buildings and staff for both projects. TCC pastor Colin Bond will be travelling out to Uganda in a few weeks time, to help prepare the buildings before the container arrives.

Colin Bond said, "Once again the people of Tavistock have rallied to our help in donating money towards the cost of the container. They have also supplied much-needed building materials and computers. The Royal Air Force have also come to our aid in promising to fly our Land Rover ambulance out to Africa in the near future. I want to say a huge thank you to them all!"

Please pray - help still needed
It's wonderful to have been able to send out such valuable supplies to people who so dearly need them. However, we'd love to be able to send another container out in 6-8 weeks to help set up a clinic in Nairobi. Could you ask God to open the channels for the resources to get another container out?

We also desperately need a large dry secure warehouse or barn. Lack of space means that vital supplies, such as operating theatre equipment and lights, are being scrapped. We have temporary storage until the middle of April 2004. If you can help please telephone us on 01822 616625.

Where it's headed - Fort Portal, at the southern end of Lake Albert