HAMPSHIRE charity worker Roger Green - nearly killed by a flood in Kenya last week - is pushing ahead with his planned desert irrigation project despite terrorist threats and the suspension of UK flights to the East African country.

Roger's wife Sally, at home in Lyndhurst, has heard by e-mail that her retired fireman husband and his colleagues are back on track for Kenya's northern mountains after their brush with disaster while crossing a swollen river near Kenyan capital Nairobi.

But the news of government emergency measures to protect British nationals from "imminent" al-Qaida attack has come at a bad time for the mission workers, who lost their Land Rover and equipment in the flash flood.

Just 24 hours before flights were suspended, Sally had issued an appeal for anyone with space on a freight plane so she could donate the couple's own Land Rover to keep the charity scheme - the Ngororoi Water Project - running.

But Roger and his team had already come up with a temporary solution - borrowing a jeep from another mission to carry them up to Mount Kulal where they plan to pipe spring-water down to Kenya's eastern deserts.

Sally, a former teacher at Noadswood School in Dibden Purlieu, said: "We have had experience of terrorism in the past. We were both in Kenya when the hotel in Mombasa was attacked last November, and in August 1998 when the American embassy was targeted. These people tend to go for tourist areas, and Roger will be 200 miles away from the city now, on a bumpy dirt road."

Sally says both she and Roger - members of Testwood Baptist Church in Totton - are completely dedicated to their mission work in Africa.

"The Ngororoi Project will bring water back to desert areas and allow people to go home who were forced off their land by years of drought," she said.

Sally Green and the Testwood Baptist Church in Totton would still like to hear from anyone who can help them get their vehicle to Kenya. Ring John Cunningham on 07957 24 56 22.