First day on base

So I arrived after about 24 hours of travel to see Beth and Carrie (team leaders) calling out my name at the airport.
Crossroads turns out to be near the airport. It is a shanty-town, but the Beautiful Gate base is absolutely amazing. It's a new compound - only 2 years old, so running water, electricity, nice bunk beds e.t.c. I'm not really slumming it at all.
Had a lunch of mash potato, peas, carrots and meat, so I haven't exactly had to acclimatise to the local food yet. Weather is like Sydney - hot and a little humid.
Just walked around the base. There are 43 children here. They have a pre-school, a medical centre where there are tubs of each child's medication - the kids eat up to 20 pills a day and that's normal for them. The children stay in cottages that have bunks and a couch area. They're at school at the moment, but the set up looks like they are really well taken care of. The last child who died here was in 2002, in 2004 some sort of HIV medication became available and since then they've been getting better and better.
I'm a bit out of it at the moment, walking around just mumbling and trying not to sleep. hopefully tomorrow my brain returns.