Day 182 – Wednesday 28th July 2010

It is back around to another village outreach clinic, so Armorel left early to the village of Kilungu.

It was a busy day with over 70 patients, 30 antenatal consultations and 100 child vaccinations. Armorel took on the role of nurse and doctor.

There was one particular little girl that hit her heart. She had a nasty ear infection, but was also suffering from very dry skin and in general just a very sad girl. To go along with these feelings, you have to witness a very hard attitude toward emotions in this culture, especially in children. All you want to do is give the child a hug, but they are told to toughen up and left alone.

School for me was fairly productive, with some positive steps being taken, sadly only with the students and not the management. We are going for a ‘Back2Basics’ approach, so today was looking at the word “A”.

After work I took the brave step of heading for African haircut number two!

We had success, again!

We had a lovely evening stroll followed by dinner and a game of something called ‘Bananagrams’. Imagine a mix of crosswords and scrabble. I have no idea why they link it with a banana though.

Some of the wards new artwork!