does africa know a song of me?

Now that I have been here for almost a month, work is slowly picking up.  I am becoming more involved with the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities project.  I am mainly working in the area of nutrition.  Right now, we are developing a curriculum that nutrition clubs throughout the area can follow.  It includes things like breastfeeding, complementary feeding, child care and coping with illness.  A big obstacle in ensuring that children are fed well here is the unequal division of labour.  Because women are responsible for so much, they don't have enough time to make sure that their kids are eating properly.  How can we overcome this so that men become more involved in child care?  What a huge question.  I am for sure learning lots!

I also hope to get involved with the Ekwendeni Hospital AIDS Programme.  There are various components to this project, including home-based care, and support for HIV/AIDS orphans.  I am pretty interested in this, and PWS&D also helps to support this project.

It is truly amazing to see God working in such tangible ways on a daily basis.