June 23rd, 2008
Day 5 in Darfur
I should call this Part 1 since I’m here at WHO again, and I don’t know what the rest of the day holds yet. We got the server in a few minutes ago, but I can’t do anything at the office because their ancient generator is down… again.
I should tell you a little about power here in Geneina. Basically, there is city power… in theory. They turn it on around 3pm and turn it off around 11pm, if you’re lucky. If you want power outside of those hours, you have to provide your own. So all of the NGOs in town have their own generators. Some are big, some are little, some are new some are old.
WR has a new one on order, but in the mean time, this is what we’re using at the office. Those are open barrells of deisel with hoses running into them, by the way.