KMJ travels

Today would be our longest day of the trip.  At 7:00am we left for Lekpongunor with both delegations, arriving at the CHPS clinic to learn about their work from Evelyn, Victoria & Elizabeth.  The delegations were very engaged and asked lots of questions.  Jaime even pondered a new job as a community outreach clinician since they get to ride on motorbikes.

Next we drove into the village where the delegtions met with agroup of community women, while Neil, Shelby, Ron & I “met” with men of the community.  We split the genders up because we felt the women would not be as honest or free if the men were in their same group.  However, so as not to offend the men, we set-up a dummy meeting so they felt as if there voice was being heard.  We even got the Chief and and the elders at our meeting which actually turned out to be quite interesting.  The Chief did dominate the conversation, so it was good to split the groups.  The most interesting thing the chief said was that they needed education on breast cancer - Evelyn had actually joined us as well and afterwards she said she would make sure they get breast cancer education materials into the village since they perceive this as a need.  As we were loading up the vans I was mobbed as I handed out the rest of my gummy vitamins, but I also saw my friend from the other day, the woman in red.