Day 13 - Aug 3 - Kawaza Village
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One of the options, available from RPS , was to visit a school and/or a village,
The village was very close to the school and was ready for our visit. You Each village has an elderly male 'head' and each group of villages has an The village healer is the first step in handling a local health issue. The Send questions and comments to [email protected] and I will answer when time permits
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previous - Tena Tena Camp
previous - Kawaza School
rather than do a game drive.
can see by the pics that they were meticulous in their presentation ... may
not have been a typical village.
elderly male 'chief'. The chiefs represent the people of Zambia to the government.
healers then decide (after talking with the village head) if a specific
person needs to go to the region health office.
On the way to the village, we visited another village to witness the local beer-making process ... more like grain alcohol ... but drinkable.
Happy and waving children, as we entered the village
Children waved and yelled, in each village we passed, all the way to the village
Ever-curious children, while we were visiting the well-respected village healer
Village healer
FACT: The village healer is an integral step in the overall medical process within Zambia, as they see the ill person first and then receive approval from the village head to allow the person to go to the area medical staff (paramedics who handle about 6,000 villagers). The area medical staff (2) only handle small items (diarrhea, cholera, etc) and must ask the ill person to find their way to the area hospital (47 KMs away) on foot, if they have more severe problems (bone breaks, AIDS, Malaria, etc).
The local healer's natural medicines
Beginning of another hut, just as we arrived
The same hut, as we finished our visit (about 2 hours later)
Getting set for the presentation of village dancers
The dancers in action
The villagers (always many happy/smiling children) crowded in to watch the whole time
The village is absolutely clean, as was all of Zambia, and swept
The bathroom hut (along with a towel and water to wash afterwards)
Inside the bathroom hut
The kitchen where our lunch was prepared
Helen, Vaughan and Chris checking out the cotton processing
Free mosquito netting given to ever child in Zambia under five
Lining up to get their maize ground
next - Nsefu Camp
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