Curtains. Yes, Curtains. — A Special Delivery

Sometimes aid looks like a generator. Sometimes it looks like a food parcel. And sometimes — gloriously — it looks like curtains.

Thanks to a wonderfully generous donor, we were able to deliver curtains and room dividers to our mobile clinic teams. This might sound modest until you learn that some of these clinics were previously using bedsheets for privacy — and literally hammering blocks of wood into walls to hang them on – only to have to dismantle them after the clinic from the temporary building. These are spaces where people are being examined, treated, and cared for with dignity. And dignity deserves better than a flapping bedsheet held up by a chunk of timber that takes the team hours to put up and down. 

The new dividers won’t make the news. But they will make a real difference to every patient who walks through those clinic ‘doors’. A huge thank you to the donor who made this happen — you know who you are, and so do the patients.

Update: 24 April 2026 – Dr M from this team went to pick up the parcel with these curtains from the post office. The next day the post office burnt down along with many other buildings in his village as their area comes under increasing attack.