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Here you will be able to read the reports of Andrew Plant as he travels with Dr. Sue Wilson and two of her colleagues from the Tumaini Fund.

Monday 30th January

Talking to Adrian Gidney on Morning Report at 8.40am from Nairobi Airport

We’re at the airport in Kenya, we’ve just made it. We’re on a flight to Rwanda in about half an hour. We should have been here about two hours ago, but taxis here are not what they are in Guernsey.

We had to come to Kenya as when we get to Tanzania we are going to be in the very North West Province called Kagera. Had we flown into the major town, Dar es Salam we would have been in the far East Coast and it is very hard to from the East to the West so this is the quickest way of going even though it seems fairly convoluted.

We have to go from here to Rwanda and then tomorrow morning we will be on the road, from Rwanda to the boarder and then from there we will cross into the part of Tanzania where the Tumaini fund is actually going to be working.

We arrived quite late yesterday; we just had a shower and some food and caught some much needed sleep. My first impressions this morning, we’ve had quite a lot of problems; the satellite phone not working, the taxi didn’t arrive and when we did get on the road the traffic jams are like nothing I’ve ever seen before, they’re literally bumper to bumper and any impatient drivers often take the scenic route along the side of the traffic along the dusty banks which kicks up a huge dust cloud and no-one can see where they are going. So it’s very different to Guernsey.

But first impressions are fantastic. Things happen at a different pace and a different way and it is very interesting.

I am not the only one on this trip who is going for the first time. Although Dr Wilson has been four times before, the charity is very new, they have only been spending money in the area for about a year and a half so one of the people coming with us is an auditor from Guernsey who is going to look at the books retrospectively and look at where the money has gone so far and try to make things a lot more concrete and a lot more easily to understand.

Andrew then had to go as they were checking in for their flight!

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Listen in

The journey will be covered on BBC Radio Guernsey on Morning Report each day between 30th January and 9th February at 8.40am and you'll be able to read a diary account here.