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