We have had disappointingly-few opportunities to take pictures of people here in this location. In the previous mountain location we lived in, everyone asked us to take their picture. This place is not at all like that; this place is conservative and suspicious. A foreigner in a bigger organization in our town was seen taking pictures of neighbors over the weekend, and before he knew it guns came out and he was in a serious situation. It was resolved and no one was hurt thankfully. So, with that being the flavor of this place, I'm not going to be able to share a lot of firsthand photos. Lucky for you, I have several thousand photos from the last 6 years of work of our project. These pictures were taken by teammates over the past years. I hope you enjoy them, but I will ask you not to copy or use them elsewhere, deal?
This post is titled "The people" for obvious reason. I want to show you a bit of the uniqueness of the culture of people here.
Parents often put eyeliner on small babies and childrens' eyes. Some say it is to make them less attractive in order to ward off the evil eye.
Women taking dishes to the nearest water source to wash.
A group of farmers ready to get to work on a project.
Nice hats huh?
A group of women gathered to learn about safe birth practice.
This is the guy my wife calls KAkA in her blog. He means a lot to us.
Men gathered to receive some relief wheat seed after a drought year.
Men gathered in an agriculture experiment garden.
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