Hi everyone,
As you (or I hope you do!) know we are heading off to the 'Democratic Republic of the Congo' (phew!) early 2011. Pete has already left and I am going in February. All very exciting, we will be working for two years for a humitarian relief agency in the areas of security, finance and logistics (Pete) and logistics, communications and media (Lizzie). The programme aims to set up and maintain rural health clinics in a remote area of the DR Congo. This has been a long time coming and thank you to everyone who has supported us in one way or another whilst we have been preparing to go/recovering from minor ailments. We couldn't have done it without you.

The idea of this blog is to keep people updated of how we are getting on - if you have the odd moment to take a look - and also for us to have a record of our time overseas. I have always been quite reluctant to write something like a blog, sort of feels a but indulgent of people's time (and surely it wouldn't be interesting enough for people to read!). As people who feel awkward updating their facebook status we will have to see how this goes. 

I will leave it there and there should be some news from Pete in the next couple of weeks.  

Lots of love, Lizzie.