he didn't have to be back to burundi. and patients who can't pay their bills are detained imprisoned essentially in the hospitals where they landed. and in prison without food or care. but mainly because of those ills dao returned continually and amid the post-war wreckage with the help of his legions of american and friends he created an organization called village health which is a clinic for people who can't health. village health works is affiliated with partners in health a much larger organization founded by village health works has to raise its own money. building and staffing a clinic in a desperately poor country isn't easy. the clinic was a pile of rocks when i visited the site with dao in the summer of 2006. by the fall of 2008, it was providing food to the hungriest people in the area, clean water to all of them and it was also a medical center, which in its first year and a half of operation treated 28,000 different patients. most of them for free. there was -- there still is nothing like this operation elsew

we have supported the acquisition of nonlethal equipment to the governments of burundi and ugonda. we have provided them with military equipment and this ranges from everything from communications gear to uniforms. we have supported the training of the tfg forces outside of somalia, mostly in the ugonda but also in djibouti. we have paid for the transportation of the troops back from their training places abroad into the country. we have also paid for specialized training given by egon vince to the djiboutians to deal with such things as improvised explosive devices, training for the protection of ports and airports. but this has been done by the ugonda in some -- ugondans, not by any u.s. government military officials. so those are some of the things. and everything that we have done we have reported as required, to the u.n. sanctions committee. >> dave from voice of america. you keep reading that a the transitional government controls a matter of blocks that it's very weekend threatened. what is your take on its survivability? >> i think the tfg has demonstrated an enormous capac

we have supported the acquisition of non-lethal equipment to the governments of burundi and to uganda, in particular. we have provided them with military equipment, and this ranges every -- from everything from communications gear to uniforms. we have supported the training of tfg forces outside of somalia, mostly in uganda but also in djibouti. we have paid for the transportation of the troops back from their training places abroad into the country. we have also paid for specialized training given by ugandans to the djiboutians to deal with such things as improvised explosive devices, training for the protection of ports and airports. but this has been done by the ugandans, not by any u.s. government military officials. so those are some of the things. and everything that we have done, we have reported, as required, to the un sanctions committee. >> thank you. david, final question. >> dave gollust from voice of america. you keep reading that the transitional government, like, controls a matter of blocks in mogadishu, that it's very weak, it's very threatened. what is your take on it