09/30/2008 19:09:08
We feel pretty people care for the environment and consumers (or at least we like to think so) and still wanting in Italy you can do: can be an environmentalist-nonconsumista-mangiatoredibiologico-
attentoaimarchiequiesolidali ....
here we were a bit 'crippled. Obviously, our origins and our ability to feed ourselves lead us more or less at home and thus to supply us in large malls and supermarkets in the capital where you will find almost everything that a western can serve. The problem that we face however is the choice responsible for the product, unfortunately, as regards the choice of brand variety is quite small in fact as we all imagine the supermarket shelves are crammed with African Nestle products but not all ... in fact the alternative to these marks are the products that South Africans have virtually the monopoly of everything that is not European or American.
European brand products (including Italian) often are inventories of stocked shelves of supermarkets where you daily and you can see from the very tight deadlines and the color of packages: often faded and worn. The rest is "proudly South African" as is highlighted on the packaging. This applies to food, appliances, clothing etc.. the situation is different with regard to purchases at the market where in addition to local products (fruits and vegetables) everything else is Chinese (toys, clothing, radio, new or used appliances, shoes ...).
A brand anywhere in the world we are facing is Bata (shoes), is in every major city and even in Sri Lanka we remember that the shoes were commonly called Bata ("I need a pair of bata", "beautiful your new bata ") ... had a local name, or better, but they were not used! The same applies here for Pampers disposable diapers, Only in rare cases, the diaper is called webs, more often they say "change the pampers the child", "your child wears Pampers?" (as a generic diaper, in fact here sometimes use the diapers or do not use them at all ).
As for good environmental practices in our daily life had entered the collection here ... unfortunately we are forgetting the fact the elimination of waste in most cases is this: are collected in sacks, you throw the bag in a hole deep enough in the garden, occasionally sets fire and it burns everything (including plastic!) So apart from the countless environmental damage I do not say that you breathe in the smell when someone burns around their waste.
Unfortunately there is still also an education environment which bring people to pay attention to where to throw litter and waste large and small every day. Straws, plastic and glass bottles, bags, caps, food packaging ... everything 'is that a hand is thrown to the ground. For us now it is a gesture unthinkable and we shudder every time when we are around and then I carry the waste of the day almost always in your pocket for 12-24 hours until they find a garbage, not always easy to find! But it must be said that a school send out the message of attention to maintaining clean sin then there are no rubbish bins.
Well in short, the good will of our pseudo environmentalists - pseudo acquistoprodottisolo responsible etc. is making room for a minimum essential attention ... hopefully not to lower our guard too!
ps
came the expected guests:
Gal, Lina, and Chicken ... The three hens and a chicken as you can see from the names ... so far have given us two eggs! physical
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Is It Safe To Shower With Silver
DAILY REFLECTIONS ON ISSUES NEW' TO MR.GREG
News: Today takes nine months! They're popping up the first four teeth!
Making friends: Friendships widen and Mr. Greg is always new knowledge
... A few days ago we started teaching Italian a child who attends the school next to us that the Italian father (but not one has ever seen, therefore, know little of their language and culture), and mule, but all is called "Mzungu" (white) as we are called us.
the evening, after classes ended, comes close to our house and while Gregory passes from hand to hand all the students that if they fight me and Kathy try to exchange a few words in Italian. The
like, say, know a little of its origins and feel a bit 'with the whites ... This must be difficult for her to fit in, it's not big and great for us adults have become accustomed ... to imagine a child of ten years living in a college ...
Also new will come ... soon the regulars (or semi-fixed) in our house! We are preparing for their new ... a new room in the garden .. eh we are already gearing up for the chickens! We have built a wooden house that is being completed, the food has already been bought ... just missing them! We look forward to seeing Mr. Greg how it will behave with her new "friends" ...
New experiences: This week we had a "day out" with the hospital staff to go for vaccination in the villages. Two days a week, two nurses and midwives are in remote villages where there are hospital and health centers to carry out vaccinations in children and pregnant women, there is a policy attentive to this point of view. All vaccinations are done free of charge and are quite complete until the year of the life of every child ... is also widely publicized the importance of this intervention. We
partisan hospital and we walked along dirt roads (a little 'we were missing from Tanzania ...) surrounded by a bright green, lush vegetation contrasting with the red of the earth ... when we find ourselves in situations like this all the questions that Sometimes we say like "What are we doing here?" vanish and all the enthusiasm for this experience comes out and you reload of positive energy.
After an hour of shaking the whole way (during which Mr.Greg fell asleep ... as was used in belly) we arrived in a raduretta near a crumbling brick building ... soon we realized that it was a school from which children running out to bring the benches on which the nurses would support the equipment. Then they returned to their lessons in a room of an unfinished house with bricks, dirt floor, several holes in the walls, two or three benches and a blackboard. We have placed under a tree a short distance and gradually began to get mothers with small children, most coming from the fields where they had to cultivate land. In general, families are advised by a person who is in contact with the hospital (mobilizer) and agree on dates (usually once a month for the village), this gentleman is in the area and goes on to warn all concerned that the this day come the nurses to do the vaccinations, and so mothers can make an appointment to find.
First, while I was expecting the arrival of all, the midwife has chatted with the mothers present their concerns and special requests. Once you get a good number of people have begun to weigh the children hung on the scale attached to the tree branch. After that every mother with her medical folder, which distributes the hospital for every child, it was the nurse to write the weight, draw the child's growth chart and mark the date of the next visit, then you put all in a row the other nurse for vaccination. There were newborn babies, three months, nine and one year (these are the stages of vaccinations). While Matte resumed with the camera, photos, and was helped to weigh the children and I know Greg did with the other mothers and children communicate mostly with gestures and looking at each other ... it was nice to be a mother among mothers, sometimes with a baby is accepted in his arms better, you feel closer, not that far from reality, despite their skin color but obviously is always a surprise to see a child is white (and Greg it is a lot).
After about three hours had been vaccinated and visited 43 children, in a few minutes the area near the tree had been deserted, we collected the equipment inside a small cardboard box, put the benches in the school and got into the car ... everything is back as before we arrived, the tree, the silence in Italy ... think of how much stuff we need to vaccinate a child or pay him a visit ....
News: Today takes nine months! They're popping up the first four teeth!
Making friends: Friendships widen and Mr. Greg is always new knowledge
... A few days ago we started teaching Italian a child who attends the school next to us that the Italian father (but not one has ever seen, therefore, know little of their language and culture), and mule, but all is called "Mzungu" (white) as we are called us.
the evening, after classes ended, comes close to our house and while Gregory passes from hand to hand all the students that if they fight me and Kathy try to exchange a few words in Italian. The
like, say, know a little of its origins and feel a bit 'with the whites ... This must be difficult for her to fit in, it's not big and great for us adults have become accustomed ... to imagine a child of ten years living in a college ...
Also new will come ... soon the regulars (or semi-fixed) in our house! We are preparing for their new ... a new room in the garden .. eh we are already gearing up for the chickens! We have built a wooden house that is being completed, the food has already been bought ... just missing them! We look forward to seeing Mr. Greg how it will behave with her new "friends" ...
New experiences: This week we had a "day out" with the hospital staff to go for vaccination in the villages. Two days a week, two nurses and midwives are in remote villages where there are hospital and health centers to carry out vaccinations in children and pregnant women, there is a policy attentive to this point of view. All vaccinations are done free of charge and are quite complete until the year of the life of every child ... is also widely publicized the importance of this intervention. We
partisan hospital and we walked along dirt roads (a little 'we were missing from Tanzania ...) surrounded by a bright green, lush vegetation contrasting with the red of the earth ... when we find ourselves in situations like this all the questions that Sometimes we say like "What are we doing here?" vanish and all the enthusiasm for this experience comes out and you reload of positive energy.
After an hour of shaking the whole way (during which Mr.Greg fell asleep ... as was used in belly) we arrived in a raduretta near a crumbling brick building ... soon we realized that it was a school from which children running out to bring the benches on which the nurses would support the equipment. Then they returned to their lessons in a room of an unfinished house with bricks, dirt floor, several holes in the walls, two or three benches and a blackboard. We have placed under a tree a short distance and gradually began to get mothers with small children, most coming from the fields where they had to cultivate land. In general, families are advised by a person who is in contact with the hospital (mobilizer) and agree on dates (usually once a month for the village), this gentleman is in the area and goes on to warn all concerned that the this day come the nurses to do the vaccinations, and so mothers can make an appointment to find.
First, while I was expecting the arrival of all, the midwife has chatted with the mothers present their concerns and special requests. Once you get a good number of people have begun to weigh the children hung on the scale attached to the tree branch. After that every mother with her medical folder, which distributes the hospital for every child, it was the nurse to write the weight, draw the child's growth chart and mark the date of the next visit, then you put all in a row the other nurse for vaccination. There were newborn babies, three months, nine and one year (these are the stages of vaccinations). While Matte resumed with the camera, photos, and was helped to weigh the children and I know Greg did with the other mothers and children communicate mostly with gestures and looking at each other ... it was nice to be a mother among mothers, sometimes with a baby is accepted in his arms better, you feel closer, not that far from reality, despite their skin color but obviously is always a surprise to see a child is white (and Greg it is a lot).
After about three hours had been vaccinated and visited 43 children, in a few minutes the area near the tree had been deserted, we collected the equipment inside a small cardboard box, put the benches in the school and got into the car ... everything is back as before we arrived, the tree, the silence in Italy ... think of how much stuff we need to vaccinate a child or pay him a visit ....
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Otslist Liczba Monsters
15:09:08 HOSPITAL NAGGALAMA
Dear friends, we are here again!
today's chapter will introduce you to the hospital in the world Naggalama.
The Ugandan health system and ' divided between "Health center" of the I II III and IV level and then there are hospitals. The different levels differ in the type of services that are offered, for example in the centers of the level there is no 'the ward and that instead' available in other levels. There are public hospitals, private and private - non profit, and that 'we are in the hospital.
Hospital Naggalama and 'complete: there are shelves prenatal, postnatal, general ward (male and female), eye clinic, x-ray and ultrasound, emergency department, dental clinic and operating room for HIV and children large-scale works. The hospital and
'has 100 beds and e 'refer to a population of about 190,000 people with about 120 staff including doctors, nurses, midwives, support staff (cleaners and security). Being the only hospital in the county, is the center of reference for the sub-district health care. My role here and
'"Technical Advisor" said the most' common T / A that you can 'translate more' or less as a consultant.
Basically our project (CUAMM) provides for the sustainability of the management of the hospital.
The goal is to make sustainable and self-management from the perspective of both the hospital because the DHO (Diocesan Health Department) and a training of local staff, mainly managers and clinical staff (doctors, nurses and department managers) to ensure the hospital and financial support to enable the reorganization of the economic situation and thus achieve a balance struck by improved efficiency and better qualified staff.
ask any curiosity as well ... and we're still discovering all gradually
... Good work!
Dear friends, we are here again!
today's chapter will introduce you to the hospital in the world Naggalama.
The Ugandan health system and ' divided between "Health center" of the I II III and IV level and then there are hospitals. The different levels differ in the type of services that are offered, for example in the centers of the level there is no 'the ward and that instead' available in other levels. There are public hospitals, private and private - non profit, and that 'we are in the hospital.
Hospital Naggalama and 'complete: there are shelves prenatal, postnatal, general ward (male and female), eye clinic, x-ray and ultrasound, emergency department, dental clinic and operating room for HIV and children large-scale works. The hospital and
'has 100 beds and e 'refer to a population of about 190,000 people with about 120 staff including doctors, nurses, midwives, support staff (cleaners and security). Being the only hospital in the county, is the center of reference for the sub-district health care. My role here and
'"Technical Advisor" said the most' common T / A that you can 'translate more' or less as a consultant.
Basically our project (CUAMM) provides for the sustainability of the management of the hospital.
The goal is to make sustainable and self-management from the perspective of both the hospital because the DHO (Diocesan Health Department) and a training of local staff, mainly managers and clinical staff (doctors, nurses and department managers) to ensure the hospital and financial support to enable the reorganization of the economic situation and thus achieve a balance struck by improved efficiency and better qualified staff.
ask any curiosity as well ... and we're still discovering all gradually
... Good work!
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