Very sad news today; Pendo died yesterday afternoon.  She was actually a little better so I hope this means that she was comfortable when she died.  She has been hanging on for a long time and with every little improvement we had great hopes for her making it but it was not to be.

Davy and I actually spent yesterday afternoon filming two other little kids who have done really well.  They have even been to hospital and tested negative but apart from that they are strong and healthy and no longer have any of the problems that plagued them a year ago; chronic discharging ear infections, terrible weakness, tiredness, ringworm.  They are still small for their ages which is typical of HIV kids but they have grown well in the last year.  So we were in good spirits as we drove back to the road through the glistening, white thorned scrub and then back to Moshi over the rim of the world where the baobob trees grow to the sad news of Pendo.