Some Before and Afters

This week was productive and this weekend was much more eventful than last. Danielle (new Danielle, who is the new project manager for Gbarnga) came this week. Another great girl to have around! Other Danielle and I have be orienting her to the program ot the best of our ability and she is fitting in just fine. She is already the Boss-lady with the staff at the office. On Friday we were able to take 3 children back to their communities after being in the hospital for about a month for severe acute malnutrition. Here are some before and afters. I do not have a before picture for the 3rd little boy, but if you notice from the picture he has a little red car in his hand. Nolan put that car in a package that my mom sent me. It was so sweet, he loved that car but he sent it for me to give to a needy child. Thanks Nolan! The little boy loved it!


Before 1: Kwashiorkor



After 1Before 2: Kwashiorkor


After 2:


After 3


The other before/after was a child with anemia and I posted those pictures on the last blog. There are more before pictures that I took and they are available on my public web albums, I recently put new pictures in albums Liberia, and Liberia 3 and 4:

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This weekend was Liberia’s independence day, so we headed up to Ganta to celebrate with some friends and to celebrate a new volunteer’s birthday. We went up Saturday night and made dinner, had birthday cake that we managed to make in Gbarnga, and then went out dancing. So fun. The dance clubs are hilarious. There are mirrors all around and people love to check themselves out while dancing. They will stand directly in front of the mirror and look at themselves- pretty much dancing with themselves. The African ladies said I was a good dancer and were teaching me how to shake it. I’ll take that as an extreme complement. They said I had the African rhythm. I may be very white, but at least I can move like an African!

Sunday we just relaxed and enjoyed the day. Today is the celebration of their independence day so everything is shut down. We are heading back to Gbarnga tomorrow and I will stay there until Sunday then head back here to work at the clinic until Friday. Next Friday I head to Monrovia and then I fly out Monday the 10th! 2 weeks left in Liberia and I can’t wait for vacation! See you all in a little less than 1 month!