By Martin Cradick | Project Leader
At the end of 2003 we heard that the well built in the village of Banana, which we had used as an example to build at Gbiné, had run dry. So as not to waste scarce financial resources we decided to research alternative methods of making clean drinking water available to the Baka community at Gbiné. To this end Alan Stinchcombe kindly came at his own expense to look into possibilities.
You can download his report at HERE
We have not been on site since the last report, but we continue to keep in touch by telephone and have financed several medical emergencies. We have concluded that since to start training a Baka woman from scratch to become a trained midwife, we need to get them through basic education first. Since this is not what donations were made for we are looking into finding a trained midwife to volunteer to teach the Baka women that already have knowledge of midwifery through traditional practical experience to know when it is necessary to get outside “modern” medical help. We feel that at this stage this would be better use of scarce resources.
Our next visit to Gbiné will not be until January 2015 when we will also be organizing another Forest Voices Tour. Read how the last one went at http://www.forestvoices.com
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