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Earlier this year at our center in Loitokitok, Kenya, a training program was held for 46 herbalists at their request. The attendees had a variety of educational backgrounds, including university education. The program focused on recognition and referral of patients with malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, and how the traditional and allopathic systems can work together for the good of patients. The herbalists have maintained contact, and have asked for additional training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Wangon, Indonesia, Sister Kusmilah Hadirekso is supervising the Primary Health Care Project, which has been successful in building latrines in one village. Now people from another area are requesting a similar project in their village. Sister Kusmilah is assisted by a team of lay people in the sub-parish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . On October 2nd, Sisters Nichola Lovett, Rita Syron and Daphne Norden joined the final mile of the 1,000-mile Cut the Carbon March in London. A team of marchers from every continent except Antarctica had marched 1000 miles from Northern Ireland, through Scotland, Wales and England, to call for the UK government to cut carbon emissions. The march was organized by Christian Aid and ended with a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Individuals and churches around the UK, and those at the service in St. Paul’s, committed themselves to call for a strong and effective climate change bill, and to press the government to take a strong stance at the UN climate change meeting in December in Bali. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Ghana, Sister Rosemary Adhiambo completed a formator’s course with a celebration in Cape Coast attended by Sister Ursula Preusser, our District Coordinator in West Africa. Sister Rosemary has returned to Techiman, where she is having cultural orientation before beginning a new mission. She will be making her Final Vows soon.
November 1, 2007
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