Avec Hannah, c’était en décembre je crois, nous avons fait des photos en guettant la lumière, en vain… (suite II).
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🎒I always take with me…🎒
Let's have a little chat 📢 about the components of your EDC kit (Every day carry – every day carry).
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No things 👜 don't leave home?
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What's in your purse 👝 (as it is known purse 👛 always there is almost everything, just like 🧐 it all fit in there – remains a mystery to me 😂), in the glove compartment 🚘 or backpack 🎒?
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Does the set change in summer and winter?
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As for me, of course, a lot depends on the situation. I almost always have my keys, wallet, phone, and camera with me
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Owlfly (Libelloides macaronius, vlinderhaft) by Rob Blanken https://flic.kr/p/rNJmvL
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Summer par Petia Balabanova
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Valle Verzasca, Switzerland
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Marathon de dessin à Tournai ; le dos d'Anaïs.
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A visit at the lepra colony outside Mbé
The citizens in this lepra colony are treated and no longer sick. But the social stigma means that the former lepra sick cannot travel home after they get well. The entry from the road is way back on top of the hill, and then a ten minute drive to the center of the village of Mbé.
Nice and friendly visit
Visiting the colony was a joy. Very awesome people, curious and happy children and a good place to visit. We were warmly welcomed and showed around.
The stigma people treated and free from leprasy are still alive. Considered unclean and 2nd class fellow humans, the isolated small village are home to former patients and their families. It was somehow unclear how the ratio between former lepra patients and family members who had never been diagnosed was.
As and example of how social stigma and lack of knowledge isolates lots of former lepra-patients, we had this lady. By request and sign language, she asked for a photo taken with a fellow european human was sort of a dream. My fellow traveller, a retired pharmacist, had no second thoughts grabbing the opportunity to make a memory for life.
Challenges of old to new
It was the Norwegian doctor and scientist Gerhard A. Hansen that identified the origin of leprasy and developed the first modern treatment. Modern medicine can effectively eradicate this 4000 year old curse to humanity, but there are still some regions of the world were it exists.
Lepra is not considered to be a large threat to public health in Cameroon. But places like this still offering treatment and humans with experience from the illness are important. Both as a refuge for former patients suffering social stigma and isolation, and for humans immigrating from other countries i the region lacking treatment services.
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