This morning we did some more prep work for the HIV talk in Kanungu
town square before we piled into the vans and headed off. We arrived at the
square where stalls had been set up for us and there were already a lot of
locals milling around. My group put our posters out and started trying to hand
out leaflets straight away.
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| HIV presentation in Kanungu |
The main issue we found was that the majority of locals
didn’t have a good enough understanding of English for them to comprehend what
we were trying to inform them. However they understood when we stated that
there were free HIV tests for those that were interested. Overall we handed out
a lot of leaflets and did a lot of demonstrations; we also managed to get just
over 150 people into a tent for HIV tests. We later found out that 5 of those
150 were HIV positive, which is supposed to be an extremely small amount
compared to previous years in Kanungu centre.
At 2:00 once the HIV activities were done, we headed to some
bars; I and half a dozen others went to a pub called ‘The Cave’ where we
watched the Liverpool vs. Stoke game and the first half hour of the Arsenal vs.
Aston Villa game. At the bar we ordered a load of drinks and dishes of chips,
chips only cost 50p in English money. We also met Ian again, our favourite lad
in town who we always see walking around selling peanuts. We invited him to sit
with all of us and bought him some sodas and bought peanuts off him.
We got back to the lodge around 5pm and then I went straight
for a run with Samir before doing a workout with him and Tom. By the time we
had finished and had a shower it was time for dinner; goat, rice and potatoes
today. Afterwards we just chilled out before going to bed.
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| Ian |
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