Update from Team Himiti!

We moved into the village on the June 28th ready to educate the villagers of Himiti about HIV/AIDS. On the very first day we met our host families and spent the day getting used to our environment. On the second day in the village we were able to introduce ourselves to a church of more than 150 members and we had our first teaching at another church. Throughout the week, while doing the community surveys, we got to explore the landscape of Himiti as we hiked mountains to get to all the sub-villages. The view from high up included the whole village and the hippo lake (Lake Babati). Unfortunately, Grant and Enoch got sick on the third day for two days and became all too acquainted with the well-known Traveler’s Disease. The next day Emily followed suit. This was not a good start for the group but we pulled through as we slowly became adapted to the new lifestyle. We got to introduce ourselves in a village meeting and after the meeting a man followed us and asked us to visit his mother-in-law who was living with HIV to talk to her about living a healthy life. On July 4th, we went to Babati for our July 4th meeting where the staff slaughtered a goat for us. We also had fries, ugali and guacamole. Teaching-wise, the first week was a struggle due to the fact that most of the village meetings that were scheduled to take part on our first week were postponed. The wazungu, or Americans, are slowly picking up on the most essential Swahili phrases. Our second church teachings were gre...
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