The healthcare team has split into their 4 groups and has been working in their separate villages. Their life styles are all different from how they get water, how they get to the villages, how they sleep, bath, use the CRs (comfort rooms (Restrooms)), etc.
So I decide to attempt to describe the living arrangements of each team. As of now I have only visited the Lawan 2x, pronounced Lawan Lawan, team and the Casiklan team. I will post a blog for the other teams in the future.
Lawan-Lawan team: Casiklan team:
Team leader- Liz Team leader- Etienne
Sam Hannah
Megan Katie
Translators: Jilian
Jael Translator:
Vonn Balong
Both teams' villages are in the mountains, to get to Casiklan they have to take this thing called jeepney up the mountain. Some of the path up is very rough.
The Casiklan team has a nice health clinic to work in, it has it's own running water, and they have a filter on the porch to get clean water for drinking. The clinic has its on CR that is flushed by a bucket of water and can also be used for their bucket baths. They cook on the fire in the back of the clinic and have a rice cooker for their rice.
They sleep up in an upstairs area of the building next door or in the clinic. The upstairs area is really nice for hammocks but can get cold some times.
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| Where they sleep |
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| view from clinic |
The kids of the village are constantly at the clinic while the team is there. They will watch in the windows while the team is cooking, eating, talking, relaxing or helping patients. They will hang out on the porch and try and talk to the teams at almost all hours of the day. Which is fun until the team is trying to get something done and they have kids in the windows calling their names over and over. The ladies on the team said that some of the kids even call them princesses.
The Lawan 2x team has it pretty hard. They are farther up the mountain than Casiklan. So they get off there with the other team, but then they grab these bikes called a "Hubble Hubble" which take them the rest of the way up to their village. The Hubble 2x can be filled with 6 or 7 people.
For their water they have to walk down the road and down the mountainside into the valley where there is water coming from the spring. They fill their jugs and buckets there and have to carry them back up the mountain and down the road to the clinic. In the valley is also where they bath in the open and wash their clothes in buckets. To filter their water they have a small pump that filters they have to pump to filter the water from what thing into their drinking container. For cooking they have a small wooden house across they road that they can cook on open fires.
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| Water-hole is circled |
For CR use they have an area behind the house that is simply a whole in the ground with some tarp around the area for coverage. For sleeping the team sleeps in the Clinic or in a hammock on the porch.
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| house across the street (and if you look close the CR is just to the bottom-left corner of the house) |
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| the clinic |
It’s very quiet there sometimes because it is a smaller village than the others.
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| Side note: this what happens when the neighbors chicken gets curious and wanders on your porch. It gets fly trapped. |
Both teams seem to be adjusting well to their lifestyles. It just amazes me how different people can live from just that far away. As for the other team I hope to get a post for their living arrangement by next week. Keep us in your Prayers. Romans 5:3