The main project, by the way, is huge. They are digging, laying and covering several miles of drinking water pipe for two villages. Much of it is 2 inch pipe, all the work is hard and dirty. Fortunately much of the digging was started by the villagers, but it is still a daily challenge to accomplish all that they have to.
Our fourth clinic was at yet another village. A Karen village. We are staying in a larger village, about 600 people, that is composed of both Akha and Lahoo people. Our clinic yesterday was in a Lahoo village. Each village speaks a unique language and has unique characteristics and customs. For instance in the Lahoo villages, the men work the fields and the women stay home, cook and raise the children. In the Akha villages, quite the opposite the true!
This makes translation sometimes difficult. Typically, one of our translators goes from the village language to Thai, then another takes the comment from Thai to English. It can be slow.
We checked all the village kids, not too many cavities. This picture taken in the school room where we worked shows why!
This is our Day IV team including some of our Thai interpreters
Greg and his buddies at the local fishing hole
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