Mar
15
global community
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
One of the 15 5-year-old kids we enrolled in our Busolwe summer Kindergarten trial classes recently died. He was too weak to fight off some kind of virus because he already had severe anemia and was quite malnourished. We found out through a phone call to the village confirming the progress of the community projects, […]
Nov
4
dreams
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I had a dream that I went back to Busolwe Hospital to visit, and I almost cried in my dream. I forgot how skinny the children were, how much need there is for doctors, teachers, money, and resources. I didn’t allow myself to see it that way when I was on the placement, to be […]
Oct
2
Education, a poem.
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
I found a copy of a poem written by one of our Library scholars back in Busolwe. It was written as part of his application to be a library scholar (whereby his school fees would be subsidized by the library), and the topic was “Education”. Education. Where did you come from? Oh! God, you created […]