First Visit Part Three

After leaving the clinic, we headed over to see some homes built for villages by Habitat for Humanity and its volunteers (mom being one). These homes were typically four rooms. One for cooking, one for a "bathroom" and the other two were used as living/sleeping space.

These homes are typically made of concrete bricks made at or near the building site. And, metal roofs.

Included below are pictures of some of the homes villagers live in who do not have the resources to purchase a habitat house. There is also a wandering population of the village who works at farms by day and stays in either partially built, vacant homes at night or where ever else they can find shelter.








This is the floor of a typical bathroom (basically a hole in the floor, a few water buckets and a little straw brush to push in refuse). The imprint of a lizard in the concrete amused me so I took the picture.

At this point, we had a chance to visit with my mother's friend Lydia who she met during her prior trip and who we saw the night we arrived as she walked, in pain, to a nearby clinic. She primarily had abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting for a few days. She showed me the prescription given to her at the clinic and there were twelve medications on it. Basically, they had four different antibiotics (covering, I suspect, H pylori and almost any other infectious diarrheal illness) as well as medication to relieve heart burn and diarrhea. A shotgun approach. Lydia had not filled said prescription nor had any intention to do so. She did not have the money to cover this multitude of medications. Her symptoms slowly seemed to resolve on their own.