The number in the hall today is around 248, and our new interns Amanda and Elice have dived straight into work in our office near the Desmond Tutu hall.
We have:
* Liased with the lady from the Department of Housing who has begun trying to get information about the people in the hall. Amanda and Elice have drastically improved from the pen-and-paper system, and created a database. Tomorrow we're going to start collecting the rest of the information, and finding out about each person's immediate needs, and also their ideas and desires about life after living in the Desmond Tutu hall.
* Made contact with the Mustadafin foundation, which has been despatched by the City to provide food to the people in the Hall. This way, we can better coordinate our efforts, and avoid duplication.
* Written a proposal for 200 mattresses: people are getting sick from having spent more than a week sleeping on the cold concrete floor of the hall.
* Met with the foreigner's committee leader, Willard. He gave us a list of their needs, which we sent through to Mustadafin today. Tomorrow, we'll purchase whatever the foundation has been unable to provide from this list.
Our plan going forward is to work together with the City to find a sustainable solution to this problem.
The good news is that the woman who we took to hospital on Monday is still there, and doing a lot better.
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