Posts Tagged ‘past trips’

Life Disrupted and The Return to Normal

Engocha Marefia

Author, Veronica Gray’s  Note: In November 2010 I traveled to Ethiopia with SalaamGarage.  We had been invited to visit the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa.  There, I met Alemtsehay Mamo and Engocha Marefia.  I had the privilege of these two very remarkable women permitting me to look into the windows of their lives.  They [...]


The soil is very red here

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(from Amanda Koster’s blog, while leading the SalaamGarage trip to Vietnam 1/2010) dong ha, vietnam. where i am sitting there ‘was’ a war going on. the soil is very red here. it has a hi iron content. there are bombs in this soil. explosives which are still killing people, maiming people, blinding people, etc. people [...]