Back to keep fighting

My role here is to get to know more about the situation in Sudan with a focus on the people suffering. And I will start working to share my knowledge and skills to anyone who is strong enough in english to understand me. The goal is to be a central part in a work to create a democratic movement within the Red Crescent in Port Sudan City and Red Sea State. This movement will crave their elected in the board positions up and through the system in time. The focus will be this because I can not see how we can build the organization by and work for the suffering in this society if we do not give our own volunteers, on the ground, a voice.

Finaly I am back in the desert by the Red Sea. It is a looong painstacking journey here. Luckely the roads where built only 3 years ago, but then again the traffic is really dangerious. The road here is one of the oil roads out of sudan through Port Sudan City port into the Red Sea and the world. The traffic is huge overloaded trucks and blown tires lies scattered by the road in the thousands.

The heat is down know from 50 degrees celcius to approx 28. Life should be alot more comfortable. And it is somehow, except know the insect, espesially the flies, are booming and creating local epidemics here and there with diarrhea, eye infections and water pollution.

I feel tired today. It is hard to explain how one can feel so tired after four weeks of vacations back home in Norway. If feel frustrated at the sight of my enormous challenge here. To create as much humanitarian support as possible for the people here, through well trained and motivated local youth volunteers, without funds from Norwegian Red Cross. Except the youth delegate activity budget which is to low to get any activity started in a sustainable focus. 

And the secret is I see this enormous potential in Sudan, but feels the heel of the ruling elite crushing down on its people. The people here are powerless. To speak out means jail. One of our coordinators from the Red Crescent spoke out about the horrible situation of the street children in Port Sudan City in the newspaper. He was jailed in a "secret prison" or "ghost house" for three days and was let out after his family paid him out. So the time has not yet come for a free and productive people in Sudan. This is the time of patience and frustations. The wait for a military regime to collapse.