Day ?

So, I don't know what day it is, Wednesday maybe? Whatever it is I know it hasn't been a week, which is weird because it feels like a month. I've seen/heard a lot of really tough stuff. Still processing...it's so extreme it's hard to internalize. Before now AIDS in Africa has been reports, stories, stats, etc. I knew it was real, but now...it's real. I went on HBC (Home Bound Care) visits today; these are people who are in outlying villages who are too sick to come in to the clinic. We visited two women; there is no way for me to put into words the way they looked, and I don't think I want to. One of the women, couldn't get out of her bed and was losing her hearing so we had a hard time talking with her. She had three children, 13, 6 and 1 years old. The thirteen year old was caring for the other two. The mother believes the daughter infected her with HIV and still holds it against her. If Faith Alive hadn't intervened when they did, they probably would have killed her. I guess this is one of many 'tribal' type beliefs about how HIV is contracted. Later in the afternoon we traveled about an hour and a half away to a site where Faith Alive will be building a hospital sponsored by Tear Fund (UK organization). P.S I'm supposedly assisting with this project, details not clear. It was a totally different atmosphere from Jos, we're talking grass huts and banana trees. Ayo told us that currently there are no social programs anywhere in the area-no hospital/clinic, no school for the kids, nothin. The kids are amazing, in that village, in Jos, everywhere we go. Whenever we walk by they wave and yell, "Ouyba! Ouyba!" (white person). It's funny...they're so excited to see you.