From Katawi and Beyond

Sorry for the last couple of weeks without writing there has been too much work in a place with no power. So I am currently sick and tested negative for malaria, I am on my third day of illness and felt good enough to come into town and write another blog. We have finished the IRS part of the program and have covered more than 150,000 people. The MDA program will still be running through next week. Since the last blog I have started a Turkey farm. The girl is Stella Rose Mary and the boy Buster. I also arrived at a village the day after the kalimajung stole 6 cows from them and a solder when looking for them got lost for 5 days then shot himself. I got to see the search partly to. It's amazing that people could get lost in Africa it feels like such a small place with homes and villages spanning the flat landscapes and the tall grass, short trees and low clouds almost make you feel Closter phobic. I have tried a new type of banana to they are big and green but then turn yellow but you still have to boil it before you eat it. I also killed, cleaned, and carved my 4th Chicken. And found out that one of my neighbors little girls is actually a servant. and that many families us servants. They wash clothes, do dishes, prepare food and take care of the kids. But they are often kids themselves like the neighbors servant is 9. They get them from the IDP camps for free and just have to take care of them, some this they have to pay but only if the parents are reluctant. Instead of having a dish washer or laundry machines the have servant girls and it seems as though they have to if they want to earn money or live a productive life out side the home. And often they put the servants through school but only when they aren't needed at home.