Friday
We are still wading through all the paper work, plus Elder Halversen asked us to look up 3 projects that have never been closed and see if we can close them out. We couldn’t find them on the CHAS program on the computer and there is nothing in the file about them either. There is serious need for better record keeping here. We are trying to document everything we do so others will not have this same problem when we have gone home.
A lady named Tita came in to meet with us today. She was trained in 2011 to access people for wheelchairs. She knew all about the wheelchair project and she was able to answer a lot of our questions about how it was put together and how the implementation is going. She is a member of the church and this is a volunteer calling for her. She is wonderful, so compassionate and caring. She will be a great help to us in the future. She thinks that we have been too trusting of the people in Tonga. We will need to have a paper trail for each wheelchair from now on. We have given out 92 chairs since we got here. Now we will go to the hospital and make them give us an accounting of who received them. They have told us over and over that they keep track of each chair but we have never actually seen the documents.
