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This report is from Kyaw Soe - owner of Arcadia Travels in Rangoon

13 July 2008

We purchased 100 sacs of bio-fertilizer (our donation, partly paid) and 25 sacs of Urea (the other person donation) on 09 July 08. We trucked those to Kyaung-zu village on 10 July 08. In another light truck we brought 300 neem trees which can grow very fast and very shady. We visited Taw-kyaung school headmaster and asked for the permission to plant some vegetable seeds the next day. I headed back home with some friends in the group. I need to be back to prepare on 11 July 08 for an overnight trip to Pyapon with medical group. Unfortunately when I went to clean my car at service place I found out the floors of my car under the plastic carpet are rusted and in pretty bad shape almost cut off at joints on the right side. The service man suggested fixing it at a car framing shop.

So I had to go and ask a friend of mine to take care of my car at a car frame garage near his house. That night on 11 July I tried to send you some photos but the internet connection wasn't good. Yesterday I woke up early at 4 a.m. and went on the medical trip. This time the whole trip with van and medicine is sponsored by one local donor who grew up in Seattle and came back with some funds for cyclone donation. We went to a village called Let Pan on Pyapon-Kyonkadoe road which is one of the toughest road I have ever been. The van was changed at a contact house with reconditioned Willy's Jeep and we had a rodeo ride on that tough road for 90 minute for a distance of 10 mile. There were some light showers on the way. The sponsor man who sat in the front seat got drenched because there is no wind shield. We reached a village called Kan Seik different from the village we went on 08 June. From there we took a boat for 30 minute to Let Pan. We provided medical treatments to 150 patients with 3 medical doctors and 2 pharmacists (I'm one of the two) from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The plastic football I purchased today were remembered to give out when I heard crying of a kid after he got an injection from one of the doctors. The kid stopped crying when she received the plastic football. All sick kids with their mothers were finally happy coming to the clinic. On the way back the jeep has no head lights so a boy sat on the bonnet with a flash light to show the driver the way. When we got back to Pyapon town it was almost 9:30 p.m. The headlight boy's eyes were reddened from the wind and the insects drawn near his flash light. He became the last patient of the day and we rushed out to the nearby Chinese restaurant before it was closed at 10 p.m. We could order our dinner just in time. The night was fast and everyone fell asleep quickly after quick shower.

This morning the sponsor remarked when he woke up. "This town doesn't seem to sleep all night" for he kept hearing noises the whole night and the cassette tape playing of a monk prayer in the early morning at 4:30 at a distance from a nearby tea shop. We left Pyapon after our fried rice breakfast at 7:15 and arrived at Sin Doe village at 8:10. Sin Doe village is a village located in the Kun-gyan-gon area. This is the place where I met a pregnant woman on 18 May in my third report. Actually I could have asked the village about her and the village chief knew her. I'm glad I heard she is feeling well. A while later she came to the doctors for some medicine. I was so glad to see her again. So I gave her good and enough vitamins at one of the doctors' advice. I totally forgot to ask her the due date for the delivery because I was so busy picking out pills at doctors' prescription for people. We treated about 100 patients at this village and were provided with a sumptuous meal at the village chief house before our departure to Yangon.

I heard from my friend on the phone about the farmers from the villages in the area who came and asked for educating them about our way of farming. My friends and the expert farmer could go to a village called Kan-wet at a distance on Toe River for providing cultivation method on 11 and 12 July. Today they went to a nearby village of Man-ga-leik where one of test farms of 50 acres is located. They discussed about the new cultivation with the farmers there today. I will have to lay low from the activities for three days until my car is finished by going out there everyday to watch what they are doing with my car in the garage.

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