That one, my friends is the answer to EVERYTHING here in Africa.
Where is the school? Under the tree.
Where can we meet the teachers for a training? Under the tree.
Where do people cook? Under the tree.
Where is the clinic? Under the tree.
yes, the clinic, that beautiful place where you can get cured and receive treatment and get tested and get shots.. well yes, it happens under the tree.
I went for an outreach activity last week and yes I have to admit it, I am still surprised to be surprised by that. A clinic under the tree? that cannot be possible! oh wait it is. So i just smiled and pretended I was in a normal situation, which by the way it is, especially there.
what if it rains? well, if it rains then nothing happens under the tree... OBVIOUSLY!
SO YES, enjoy the services while you can.
The funny thing about the outreach activity is that it's never in the same place. it goes around and offers services to the village, kinda like a circus... moving and going "to town".
so people get mobilized, they walk from the village to the tree and they receive treatment.
You see the midwife checking the baby and weighing him (under the tree).
You see the mothers getting trained on HIV and feeding their kids (under the tree)
You see the kids screaming and getting drugs and vaccinations (under the tree)
It's quite astonishing, really and for a moment you think it's the reality (also because it looks so natural in that context, in that place) and then u realize that the clinic is.. well yes UNDER THE TREE.
Where is the school? Under the tree.
Where can we meet the teachers for a training? Under the tree.
Where do people cook? Under the tree.
Where is the clinic? Under the tree.
yes, the clinic, that beautiful place where you can get cured and receive treatment and get tested and get shots.. well yes, it happens under the tree.
I went for an outreach activity last week and yes I have to admit it, I am still surprised to be surprised by that. A clinic under the tree? that cannot be possible! oh wait it is. So i just smiled and pretended I was in a normal situation, which by the way it is, especially there.
what if it rains? well, if it rains then nothing happens under the tree... OBVIOUSLY!
SO YES, enjoy the services while you can.
The funny thing about the outreach activity is that it's never in the same place. it goes around and offers services to the village, kinda like a circus... moving and going "to town".
so people get mobilized, they walk from the village to the tree and they receive treatment.
You see the midwife checking the baby and weighing him (under the tree).
You see the mothers getting trained on HIV and feeding their kids (under the tree)
You see the kids screaming and getting drugs and vaccinations (under the tree)
It's quite astonishing, really and for a moment you think it's the reality (also because it looks so natural in that context, in that place) and then u realize that the clinic is.. well yes UNDER THE TREE.
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