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9/20/2004

Left Cleveland to nurture hope in Mozambiqure

Before goinf to Africa to work for Health Alliance International, Wendy Johnson was Medical Director of the Cleveland Department of Public Health. Here's an excerpt from her lastest entry:

Most of the images and stories we receive of Africa in the US can be divided into two categories: the exotic and the dismal. Between the depictions of tribal ceremonies and distended bellies, it�s nearly impossible to get a good idea of what African life is really like from the US media. I could write hundreds of pages on what I�ve already seen and learned, but I�ll try to give you a taste that fills the void between the hopelessness and the sensationalism that characterize the media coverage... This weekend, back in Cleveland, many of you will be at the AIDS walk in Edgewater Park. Keep the Mozambicans in mind. I�ll be having my first weekend off since I arrived, probably sitting on a beach watching fishermen paddle their dugout sailboats (called dhows) out to sea in the morning and sail back in the late afternoon. Maybe I�ll even convince one of them to give me a dhow sailing lesson.

After the good work she's been doing, I hope Wendy enjoyed the beach. I wonder if she had her dhow lesson?

posted by George Nemeth # 9/20/2004 07:08:00 PM

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