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dmacmillan wrote:
I really like the diagonal composition of this compelling image. I hope you acted scared when they jumped up!
My wife took her graduate nursing students to Tanzania on a medical mission trip. They took a bare minimum of personal items and used the rest of their luggage space for medical supplies. They also took four extra suitcases of medical supplies with them.
It was a revelation for her students. They worked in a maternity ward that had practically no equipment. The patients were required to supply their own supplies, including sheets for their beds. They walked to the clinic to have their babies. After delivering, they washed their sheets and hung them up to dry. Once dry, they gathered their belongings and their baby and walked back home.
I wanted to go and regret not going, but I had a work conflict and ended up in Alaska for two weeks. I wish more Americans would get to visit third world countries and cruise ships don't count. They would meet wonderful people and learn more about the challenges others face....Show more →
Yes, if people traveled to these under developed countries they'd have a much different perspective on life and really how good we have it in our neck of the woods. They'd understand how a not so sharp corner in a lens is such a trivial problem to have.
I actually visited a maternity ward in a hospital and we gave out little knitted toques and socks for the babies and a stuffed toy. Yes, these woman are basically on their own. Sadly, a woman having a child out of marriage is considered taboo ( no man would have this woman ) and many of these kids are secretly birthed and orphaned so that the woman remains "pure". A few of the orphans I worked with were left on the street as babies most likely by unwed moms.
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