We meet the Chief and the DC in the hope that their influence will promote the rights of women. But both seem rather removed or indifferent about it. Some staff at the hospital however are even bigger hypocrites. They participate in the women's rights campaigns and yet circumcise their girls at home.
One of the men in the workshop, trained in health care and a key personnel in our work will (a few months later) get a fifteen year old pregnant and run away both from the girl and from work...
I guess that's the benefit of writing in hindsight. Things can be put in greater perspective.
The women are sad to see us go. They shower us with hugs and beaded jewellery. And I am emotional myself; emotional about their situation, emotional that we allowed them to talk, if even just to each other. About what women mean in their societies...
Mannfred had left two days earlier so Dr. Maria drives us to Narok and from Narok we take a mat back.
[one of the women whose necklaces I now wear and Sylvester, one of our health care workers/translators]
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