Abraham's family and planning for discharge

Hi all
For the past 2 weeks zamtel has had very poor service, either being no service or a weak connection. Pictures just will not send - neither will large documents of any kind.

This past week we had a couple of days in Lusaka doing business. Lusaka is such a busy city, these days. Much traffic!

Our orphan count is still at 9. Having 9 orphans means working with 9 families - but in this case its 8 families because of our set of twins, Molly and Timmy.

We do home visits regularly to keep assessing the needs of the family and the readiness of them being able to take their wee one home. This afternoon, Sunday, we visited Abraham's family and fortunately, Geoffrey's 3 sisters from Livingstone were visiting so we could have a short family meeting. Geoffrey and Josephine are Abraham's parents and they have 5 children, Abraham being the youngest. We've had Abraham for a few weeks and now the family need to talk about who will care for Abraham. It seems the the relatives on Josephine's are not interested in helping the family, for reasons that are not coming to the surface. Both of Abraham's parents have HIV and that may be the reason. Geoffrey's 3 sisters return today to L'stone but they will discuss between them who can/will care for Abraham and I'm suggesting that he return to a family member in a few weeks. The 3 sisters are all financially able and capable of caring for Abraham. I fear that Josephine's life is coming to an end - so this discussion needs to take place now and I would think that it may be a comfort to Josephine to know that her precious last born is placed with family.

Will keep you posted on how this rolls out.