Nets and More
More from our trip to Mozambique. (Previous posts here.)
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In the afternoon, we visited with head of PSI in Mozambique and then visited a Maputo suburb.
In the suburb, which felt like a neighborhood, Yara of PSI explained how to use insectcide-treated bednets to a group of children and their caretakers. At the presentation, about 3/4 of the women said they were raising children who were not their own.
After, Yara took us to visit two families. The first was a family of eight (2 parents and 6 children) who live in a small 7 x 9 ft. house. The other was a mother, Regina, who has four children and whose husband died last week. Regina’s mother has bad legs but still commutes an hour and a half to work each day so that she can help feed her grandchildren.
She told us she was tired. And that her legs hurt.
-Virginia Simmons
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May 12, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ginny, you and all the others who are with you from ONE on this trip are very fortunate to be able to travel amongst the People of Mozambique.
I have long had a deep respect for the People of this land who struggled so heroically against colonialism to gain their country’s freedom in the 1970′s when I came to know of FRELIMO and of their leader, Samora Machel.
The picture of the children with their bednets literally brought me to tears.~
Thank you for sharing your pictures and your experiences. I look forward to more.
Take very good care, everyONE. Blessings always.
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
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