Girl in the village Flor Amarilla
” In Nicaragua is currently time of vaccination for children from 2 months to 4 years to refresh the vaccination against mumps, measles and rubella, and polio. Of course, we are also involved in the health posts and have to be vaccinated this month a total of 180 children in the neighborhood. [...] Furthermore, we have to go into schools to give children between 5 and 12 years also the tablets against the parasite. [...]
The children do not all live in El Regadio itself, [...] it must also be vaccinated children from the nearby village of nine, which are part of our service area. Since these can not all come from the health post, we went recently been in four different villages / run / ride to vaccinate all the missing children.
The highlight for me was the visit to this far “Flor Amarilla”, a village that is really very far away from everything. Where do you get neither car nor a motorcycle, but only on foot or on horseback. We chose the second option, since a walk probably takes at least 4 hours and one with the horse just only 2-3 hours on the road. We were accompanied by a policeman and another man from the health sector.
The problem is not necessarily even the length of the route, but rather the “way”. First you have to complete a fairly high hill and then down again. And the best thing you can find on the route are small trails. [...] And nature was just a dream. This is again one of those things that imagine in Germany is very difficult, as there might be almost no place to which you can not come with the car and everything is natural. In addition, there is a “place” of another kind, because there really is no way to buy some commercial things, never mind food, and thus pretty much everything that is consumed is produced domestically. The “Place” I wrote in quotes because it is not a place where all the houses are nice to each other, but were most of the 15 houses belonging to the village, built very close together.
Local people were very friendly and have supplied us well. Of course, there was first a cup of coffee (or coffee with sugar, as is so common here) and a few tortilla with beans, while lunch was already prepared. And although they had killed a chicken in the morning specially for us, to make it a fresh chicken soup. So we were almost finished with the vaccination of 6 children, as this was given to us. Really delicious. ”
This wrote the German volunteer 2011/2012 Anne on 15/03/12 on her blog (http://weltwaerts2011.welthaus.de/anne/)
Photo: Anne, German volunteer 2011/2012
