Checking in!

Hello all!

Just booking along at site, things have been moving about the same as usual. But there have been some new things that have happened... The last time I talked about the little boy that I've been worrying about, well on Thursday someone in my office and I finally got to go out to visit him at his home.

The bad news is, he's really not better. He's still got a pretty active case of TB, and having AIDS, he's just not healing very fast. I'll spare you all the details of the physical problems that this kid is having, because to be honest, they're pretty horrific. On top of all that, he's living with his grandmother in this tiny mud-walled house with dirt floors, and the one interior wall in the house that separates the living quarters from the sleeping is made up of cardboard boxes. As soon as I'm back in the office on Monday and organizations are open again, I'll be calling and visiting around to see what anyone may be able to do for this kid.

But in happier things, some other work-related things have actually been progressing as well as could be expected... I've started working much more with one of the women's groups, the one with the dairy goat project. This next week we're going to be taking a tour of the grounds of a local goat breeder's association to learn more abuout goats, and to see how many more female goats we can buy to start the goat breeding program at the office! SO that's very exciting! Even more exciting is that when I talked to another PCV who has a group doing a similar project, she said that when she went to her local breeder's association, she was actually able to neuter a goat! I'm holding out high hopes for next week, I'll let you know if it all goes according to plan!