Congo day 6

Today we went to a clinic outside the city of Kinshasa in a more rural area. People began to look more and more poverty stricken as we started 4 wheeling off the main road. We pulled up to an old white clinic that Banding Together will be helping in the future with medical supplies and Aids education. They serve the community children two meals per week and attend about 44 patients daily. I went into the maternity ward first and met three women. I asked to hold the first madame’s baby and she placed the 2 day old child in my shaky arms. I then proceeded to ask her the wee little ones name. She first asked my name and then said the baby’s name is now “Esther”…. wow, i must say, i’ve never had a child named after me. Also, there were two other women in the clinic with two boys who named their babies after Drew and Josh, but they couldn’t say Josh’s name right, the child is now named George. I really enjoyed this place, because it is the first that i’ve been to that the people weren’t afraid of the camera. I snapped away as I met the local people, played with the kids and tried to say a few things in french.  Tomorrow Josh is heading back to Kenya, where he will fly back to the States. Drew and I are headed back to the Clinic tomorrow to help prepare a meal feed the community children. I can’t wait for this !! Africa has really grown on my heart. It is a place that I will long to come back to. The below photographs are in Mpasa and the bottom photo is Esther and Esther. ;-)  

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