MY HAIR IS GOING GREY!

This is a lonely, crappy job sometimes (sorry mum for saying crappy - oops I've said it again).

Know this about Chikankata. We have 200 bed hospital, 4 day clinics in the hospital, 2 mobile clinics each day, a Health Centre, a dentist, an x-ray dept, a Nurses Training School, 6 rural health centres to name just a few things.

Know this about Chikankata - this month we have received K2m (less than 400 pounds / 700 dollars) from the government to run the hospital. One hundred pounds a week to run one of the biggest hospital in rural Zambia. (I know it's not really the governments fault, they got little money too)

How do you do it? You tell me cos I'm stuggling to figure it out. It's tough man!

The THQ Zambia gives us a small grant and does the best they can but it is small - (it covers the officers salaries here). It's an impossible task. Every month I have such a struggle to find money for drugs, salaries etc etc and I have weekly communications with ZESCO (electricity company) to avoid getting cut off.

So if you've got a spare 20,000 pounds floating get in touch at
www. we've got hee haw money.chikankata.com (not a real website just incase you have got 20,000 pounds)

WOE IS ME!