Sunday Service
on Freetown Blog (Sierra Leone), 27/Oct/2009 20:37, 34 days ago
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On Sunday it was the annual medical and health services Sunday service, which was held at the Methodist Church in Central Freetown. My colleague VSO who works in the Chief Nurses Office had been involved in the organisation, so three of us went along to what turned out to be very lively and enjoyable event - with the congregation cheering the preacher when he spoke about the scandal of low pay for health workers, and with great singing and dancing up the aisle for the offertory (not by me, you understand). After the service everybody formed up to march through Freetown to a reception. In the picture below, you can see the famous Freetown Cotton Tree in the background.I had a special reason to feel thankful at the service, as it is where I met up with the delegation from ABMU Health Board in Wales who have come to do some training in the Childrens' Hospital over the next week. They were carrying with them my laptop from UK (thank you Julie and Lisa!). So this week I'm a bit better placed to support my boss and get on with some of the things he wants me to do. And also, of course, it now means that I have a way to upload some pics to my blog.
