Thursday, April 12, 2007



After Kakoma we went on to Kyabirukwa Health Center III, which is near the mother house of Sr. Margaret's order, the Sisters of Good Counsel. Several families waited under the trees outside the clinic, and with Fr. Bonaventure's help in translation, I interviewed them to learn more about their lives. Most, like the woman on the left in orange, were there for care for their children with malaria. With Bonaventure's gentle encouragement, they gradually opened up to tell us that they walk many miles to reach the clinic, that the smallest families in their villages have 6 children, the largest 14, and that their most urgent health care need is clean water. That's Fr. Bonaventure in the middle.

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