WEEK OF THE 7TH OF OCTOBER 2013 HOSPITAL RELIEF SOCIETY MISC

Sisters working on Relief Society project.

The RS project, temple picture on cardboard framed with lace.

Working away. The sisters at the meeting will attach the lace.

Olivier called us to visit Russell Mbaya's father in the hospital by the river.

Parked at the entrance to the hospital, which is a leprosy hospital.

Operating rooms.

Chicken and chicks foraging in the refuse pile.

View of the river from just outside the patients rooms.

Entering the patient's room.

Inside the room.

His affliction started two years ago below the knee resulting in open sores which are still present beneath the bandages. Skin grafts taken from his upper thigh cover the area above the bandages

Photo of the onset.

Rapids viewed from the rivers edge outside the room with telephoto zoom.

Congo River from the river's edge.

Getting ready to leave.

We stopped at a micro-finance bank.

Sue playing cooking queen demonstrating her snack cake.

On the way to the oven.

Answering questions.

Brother Haboko teaching an employment class in the Seminary and Institute building. I wandered about while the Relief Society meeting was going on.

Women at work assembling the temple picture.

Women at work.

The result of the "drop cake" trick.

The damage was cosmetic. It still tasted good. Not to worry, like Julia Child she had made another at home to serve to the sisters.

The photo with lace frame takes shape.

More and more women came on African time, but there was just enough to go around.

This little coquette kept me busy trying to get a good shot.

Zoom from the roof of a barge leaving the quay on the river.

Zoom of our friend Didier's shoe shine stand under the umbrella at the left.

Breakfast for students at St. Anne's school at 7h00 in the morning.

Two friends perched on the roof.

The forest primeval ready for shipping.

Brazzaville across the river.

US ten spot refused by the accountant at the Temporal Affairs office. See if you tell why.

Five hundred CF note (about 50 cents) acceptable. Compare to the ten spot.