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AFRICA SLIDESHOW

7/17/08

THURSDAY, July 17:






Our second day on the job was as full and exciting as the first! VBS had about 175 kids today, most of who were waiting for our group when they arrived in the morning, and stayed for VBS and then until our group left to go back to camp in the evening. Other than VBS, our group interacted with the kids all day long, playing games, singing, etc. During VBS, we reinforced some public health issues like the importance of hand washing and in conjunction with this message, tomorrow some of the 400 soap bars we raised with the "Got Soap?" campaign will be given to the children. We learned before coming over, that soap was a real luxury and would be a nice gift to pass out.

















The medical team returned to the village of Machu Bitane where we were yesterday, and treated another 65 patients today. Today's crowd was different from yesterday, with about 3 different dialects being spoken and different types of illnesses than what we saw yesterday. There were AIDS cases, and a lot of dehydration. Today there were more adults than children, but we still had plenty of them to receive the candy, and the rest we threw out the windows of the bus while we were whisking by groups of kids. The people are always very warm and welcoming, waving to us when they see us in our bus! Tomorrow we will be going to a new village.



WELL DRILLING: For starters, we had a crowd around the well as it shot water out - first dirty brown, then all watched as it turned crystal clear. We are testing the water forr potability now. Tomorrow, the pump will be put in and soon it will be operational. VBS was going on at the time the well produced water, so the kids were thrilled to see the first of two wells that will be on the school's property, and the well drilled today was for the community, the new water source for the very children there today!

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