Bags, coffee and bikers were the order of the day today. Met up with Amy at the church 10 am this morning to help put together some bags of essentials to send via one of Amy’s contacts into the community. Each bag costs about 43 LE and contains a bag each of rice, sugar, flour and pasta, a bottle of oil, a litre of milk and some tea bags. There was enough stuff to pack 177 bags today. The people packing were Wendy (blue top), Pretty, me Brian, Margret and Amy. Simon helped too (top left) and Thomas wheeled his barrow to get the stuff out to Amy’s car, which can hold about 100 bags. Quite an exhausting morning!
Then it was off to the CSA for coffee with Liz and Brian, Geoff and Maddy. Maddy was not well yesterday which culminated in her being in the bath at 3am (her choice, not ours) and being sick, Geoff dealt with the plaintive cry. It did mean she didn’t feel like staying long at the CSA over coffee so we came back quite quickly. I was back there for 3pm for a House group coffee, and then on to church. Mark still isn’t well so I had offered to play tonight, I am trying to put the music together that matches the book to make it easier to find the songs.
As I did all this walking through Maadi it was amazing to see groups of Egyptians cleaning up the streets, apparently they had arranged it through Facebook. Lets hope they can keep it up.
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