Background Tasks
Day 3
Not much happening today. For one of our refugees, an eye doctor appointment was scheduled yesterday for a visit today. Upon seeing him today our medical team concluded his situation was improved enough that the visit would not be necessary.
In fact, all family members look and feel fine at this point. We’ll check up on them again in a couple days.
Meanwhile, we are preparing to move the family into their own housing. At the moment they are sharing some space with some relatives and the relatives neighbor.
We’ve got a potential house rental that may become available within the next week or two. While we’re waiting for that situation to firm up, our furnishings team has been busy getting the word out as to what we need to fill their house or apartment.
We work off a list of requirements plus several other things we’ve found to be useful over the years. A signup sheet is at church. Other friends and family of our resettlement team as well as friends of friends are notified of our needs.
In most cases we try to have people hold onto big stuff (like beds and couches) until our “move in day.” In some cases we need to get the furnishings in advance. By “move in day” we will have every required item and some of the bonus items.
We didn’t know the family size for sure until Sunday and by then it was too late to get a signup sheet in church for that day. So, we are a bit behind at this point. We’re just lucky that temporary housing was available to buy us some time.
