There are no clinic near Kasenga district in the Zambia Cornerstone Orphanage so that people have difficulty. The Zambia Orphanage had nurses from Lusaka come to the district, and we handed out the drugs as vitamin A (prevention of cataract) and phosphorochloridate (sterilize with water) to women who have children of five or under. Also we held a seminar about family planning and HIV to them.
In Zambia, the children of five or under are recommended to go to doctor almost once a month for vaccination and measurement of body weight. However, because the clinics are far, many women have to walk between the residents and the clinics on foot over a day. For this reason, they are too late for having a baby in the hospital. So they have to give birth to a child in a bus or in a bush on a road. Many lives put themselves in danger.
Therefore we’ve made up our mind to hold the seminar. Also we have much expectations to reach the people through our ministries of orphanage. The responses of the women were good, and they appreciated us.
