May 11th – 14th Soon enough it was time to get Gavin back for his plane trip to the UK and to carry on to Djibo to work beside Dr Ken Elliot. However on our way to Ouaga we stopped for the night in Fada to break the long hot dusty journey and as we walked into the SIM guesthouse compound there was a man sleeping under a tree in the driveway. Later that afternoon, upon enquiry, we found out he was not the gardener, I had supposed, but a waif who had drifted in a week or two before begging for money for food and cigarettes. He had a crude material cover around his lower right leg, and was fairly uncommunicative. After some time with the house helper for Mark and Karina, we found out he was from Niger and some 6 months previously had fallen at his village and injured his Right leg. When we uncovered his leg ,part of the distal third of his Tibia bone was poking through the skin with the attendant infection, and it appeared he was able to walk with difficulty and the assistance of a strong supporting pole.