Something for your senses!

Visualize these:

Vigorous football game (soccer)blazing sun at 4 degrees latitude, players sharing shirts and sneakers, some even barefoot because there aren’t enough for the entire team.

Two days of track and field events taking place in the scorching sun. Players running bare foot or in socks on a grass field whose lanes have been hand cut, all 400 meters of it times 6 lanes.

Enthusiastic peers running across the field after each event, swarming their victors!

Lady gracefully walking on uneven clay dirt path with a sewing machine on her head.

The goat snack bar –goats nibbling on both sides of a low hedge as if seated at a diner counter. I witness this daily in the late afternoon.

A pristine, clean, white bus arriving on campus! Students pouring out of classrooms cheering and twirling their handkerchiefs in the air excited about the addition to their campus.


Imagine these sounds:

The scratching sound of palm frond brooms sweeping the walkways and paths at 4:30AM. (These brooms are the length of the fronds not attached to a broomstick so whoever is sweeping is bent at the hips doing so.)

Rhythmic singing of African Morning Doves, punctuated by rooster crows, while a high pitched crowd of smaller birds joins in.

Dull pounding of wood upon wood as homes prepare their evening fufu.

Rain arriving at long last slowly, lightly, then realizing this place is oh so thirsty and the heavens open up. Rain pelts on the tin roof so you no longer are able to hear the people sitting next to you.

A catchy television ad explaining the recent change over in malaria treatment from chloroquin to a combination of artensuate an amodiaquine…”spread the news..”

Another ad showing how to prepare the treatment for mosquito nets “The Malaria Destroyer!”