GraceC04
Health, births and sanitation
- Age at landing
- 28
- From
- Kenyan, Kikuyu, from Nyeri
- Before
- Nurse and midwife in a rural clinic
- Main skill
- Nursing, midwifery, herbal medicine
- Other skills
- Soap and hygiene, counselling, singing
- Personality
- Gentle and observant, and immovable on any matter of safety.
- Strength
- Everyone confides in her. She knows the truth of the camp before the council does.
- Flaw
- Carries other people's pain. Over-protective. Clashes with the risk-takers.
- Wants
- Never to bury anyone on this island.
- Story arc
- Delivers the first child, writes the safety rules, and takes the island from willow-bark tea to an operating room and the first antibiotic, training others so that she is never the only healer.
- Dies
- Year 50, aged 78. Of age, the oldest of the 24 still living, the year after the hospital opens. She is buried by healers she trained.
- First partner
- Ehsan, from month 1
- Leads phases
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- Helps in phases
- 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
03 Food security and the first camp
04 Clay, kilns, charcoal and lime
05 Copper and bronze
06 Iron and steel
07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
08 Farming, cloth, leather and household industry
11 Glass, chemistry, petroleum, rubber and cement
12 Precision and machine tools
13 Steam power
14 Electricity, generators, motors and batteries
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid
Grace and Ehsan
The two eldest. Ehsan builds a dry shelter for the sick before he builds his own; Grace dresses his burns. Settled from the start, and the pair all the others measure themselves against.
His long days at the forge beside Nadia. Her fear of every risk he takes.
Procedures Grace leads
Procedures Grace helps with
Sketches with Grace
