Tuesday, June 11, 2013
sitting with Maasai AIDS Widows on World AIDS Day
December 1st is World AIDS Day and one of the missions of Homeopathy for Health in Africa, the organization I was volunteering with at the time is; “To relieve the suffering of HIV/AIDS patients using classical homeopathy” so there was no way I was going to say no when we were invited to be a part of the Maasai World AIDS Day celebration.
The plan was to wake early on the morning of December 1st, drive the 2 hours to Arusha where the celebration was to be held, treat only HIV positive patients (keeping with the theme of the day) and then drive home that night. Our team consisted of me, Roger our Swahili translator and Popo a local homeopath. As soon as we got to the field where the festivities were to be held we set up our clinic under a tree and got to work treating the line of patients that were already waiting. I swear I still don’t know how there is always so many people to treat!
Clinic under the tree. Old Bibi.
My most memorable patient that day was a 93 year old bibi (grandma) who came to see us. She had been previously treated by another homeopath and I was doing follow up care for her. Bibi told me she had been blind for 5 years before receiving homeopathic care! Her 1 complaint, when she looked at far away objects with her right eye they tended to be a bit shimmery. Bibi, you can see! Never mind that things are a bit shimmery!! We had a laugh and soon she was on her way with another bottle of homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy still amazes me with results like these that are so unexpected.
In September 2013 while volunteering with the Maun Homeopathy Project I hope to see results that are this amazing.
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AIDS,
alternative medicine,
change,
HIV,
homeopathy,
Tanzania,
volunteering,
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So proud of all the work you are doing and that you are doing what you love! It shines out from your soul through your eyes. THank you for sharing this! :)
ReplyDeletethank you Dawn, it really means the world to me to be able to share my work with my friends
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