Megan Yarberry is Project Coordinator in Africa for RMF’s Team Whole Health, and has been facilitating acupuncture trainings in East Africa since 2005. She shares her experiences here.
Our final week in East Africa held some challenges as well as some rewards.
I was able to attend the meeting that Beth had with the UNHCR and representatives of the refugee community my last day in Kiryandongo. It was interesting in that the information being provided by the various sources we have met with is often contradictory, and there are obviously some glitches and gaps in the communication lines.
It’s frustrating to be told that life-saving supplies like malaria medication can be delivered to the camp within 24 hours, and yet people we know (and many we don’t) have died from malaria in the past 6 months there due to lack of these medications at the pharmacy.
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