Andy here.

We were delayed by a day getting to Saraya due to rainfall causing chutes of water to traverse some of the roads that were, apparently, strong enough to knock over trucks. Also, our truck with the nets themselves had some problems in Tambacounda, a city about 3 hours before our hub city, Kedougou.

When it rains like this, and there are delays, you can't do too much. We had lunch with friends yesterday. We also read our books, which are all in their own way, horribly depressing. I'm reading about the history of malaria and how many people it affected in the world of poverty. Chrystal finished reading a book called "First they killed my father" about Cambodian strife. Chrystal then switched to a story about a native american growing up in a horrible situation. Jesse is reading about Tuberculosis and poverty. I can't remember the book Alli is reading, but it seems like someone is always reading a page with someone dying.

After all this, we decided we were all crazy for reading only these types of books and we were becoming horribly depressed.

So we switched it up by watching an episode of Northern Exposure on Jesse's computer as we piled under one of our mosquito nets. Then we played a card game called Phase 10 (I won).

We are most excited lately because of our progress. We've reflected on papers we've read and have started to realize that if we cover the Region of Kedougou, we will successfully covered one of the greatest populations ever in the world to be universally covered by insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets.

This year our goal, as you know, is about 16,600 nets. Next year, in order to cover the rest of the region, we will need to buy about 60,000 nets. This means we are brainstorming about fundraising. None of us really enjoy asking people for donations, but we all know we have to scale up in multiple ways in order to purchase a sustainable supply for this area. We are always looking for help. If any readers out there can help write grants, find donors or donate themselves, please help us in any way you can.

Thanks for reading everyone. We're doing great.