How Things Change
My first short term mission trip to the Yulansoni valley was in 2001. A lot of things are still the same in the Singida and Yulansoni area, but a lot are different. I thought I would spend a blog exploring some of those items and some of the things that surprised me that are the same. The first item to discuss are the three items most treated at our hospital. In 2001 and 2006 the items were dysentery, malaria, worms. Today after the event of new roads and a lot more exposure to the rest of the world the items are dysentery , malaria and sexually transmitted diseases. I also understand pregnancies out of marriage and teenage pregnancies have increased in the Singida and rural areas in the last 4 years. Women's clothing has vastly changed. It was rare even as late as 2010 to see women wearing pants in town or a tight skirt or a skirt above their knees. In fact normally they would wrap one of the printed clothes to cover themselves if...