Well I must tell you...I sent several boxes of supplies and food from home so that they would arrive in my first couple weeks in Sudan. Last week Canada house received over 50 Large Gold bags of boxes (about 4 24 cases in size each) all at once.
The most shocking thing to see was the shape of a great deal of the boxes. I would swear that they were air dropped from a plane into Khartoum!! They it looks like they were dragged down the street and kicked around. I packed my boxes very well and made sure nothing moved around and I still had items broken inside them.
I also taped up the entire box and most of it held. Other boxes from other people here were not so lucky.
I guess when they say on the MFRC web site that when you pack something you must pack as though it would be dropped from a plane, sit on the hot runway in 50 degree heat for a week and then have a camel stomp on it. This is the only way to pack items!
Mike
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Hey Mike
ReplyDeleteYou can actually see a plane beside the runway in the Google Maps satellite image.
Don't see much of a village, and to think you wanted to do patient regulating in KAF.
Take care man
Ken