picture documentation

above: laura marie scrubbing into surgery during a hysterectomy in Chikinkata...amazing oppurtunity that she would never get in the USA.

Here are some children coming form school around Chikinkata. All the students in Zambia have to wear uniforms to school. With the cost of these and other school fees, it is very difficult for families to keep their children in school.

This is a traditional Zambian meal, sheema and chicken. Another main staple we ate alot is called rape, which is cooked greens. Sheema is a dried corn based meal that has been ground fine until it becomes a moldable paste, then you dip it in whatever gravy you have. Most of us loved it, but after awhile it gets alittle old ;)

Here are our nursing students at the chikinkata school of nursing that we toured. We got to know a lot of the students and had a great time working with them and learning from them.

-Bethany Strickland-

(ps i havent been signing my name but they posts are from me :)