Good news of the day: one of the pharmaceutical companies we have been in contact with has confirmed it will sponsor our team. The donations for our day-care project are growing too, thanks to all of you for your contribution.

The last two weeks were ruled by paperwork: Visa forms, passport photos, car insurance, personal insurance, CB radio and sat phone permits, car tax, donation agreements, and probably a few more which I forgot already.I hope everything is complete now. We are supposed to receive our visas, permits, and the starting number in a few weeks.
On the equipment side, there are the follwing new items piling up in the trunk of Baby Beast:

• second spare tire (still without a rim, Baby Beast’s strange rim size is hard to find on ebay)
• two aluminum sandplates
• a 12V to 230V converter
• a tent (we left our tent in Mali last time, I found a cheap new one for 30 Euros, I hope it will be OK for two weeks)
• a shovel my father donated

We booked our flights from Bissau back to Europe for the  13th of February. If we succeed to get there in time (the planned finish is on Feb 9), we will have 3 days to finish our charity activities and to do some sightseeing.