pictures at an exhibition

Last weekend we went to a local cultural centre to check on the exhibit of pictures from Madagascar our daughter and her friends had set to a month, following their humanitarian trip there last summer that was supported in part by the town council. While we had already seem these pictures, it was nice to see them in perspective. Hopefully inducing more volunteers to spend time in this particularly poor country, facing a silent humanitarian crisis. Including numerous cases of pneumonic plague… Donations can be made to MadaClinics, the NGO supporting medical rural centres. (USAid also has a program specifically aimed at Madagascar.)

World Contraception Day [donations]

As today, September 26, is World Contraception Day, as contraception is under threat, even in some supposedly developed countries, and as my daughter, back from a medical internship this summer at a dispensary at Maventibao in rural northern Madagascar, reported treating a high number of sexually transmitted diseases, here is a call for donations to MadaClinics, the NGO supporting such medical rural centres.