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ONE Campaign Doing Good in Ghana

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

The reason I came to Ghana was to help publicize the introduction of two vaccines to the Ghanaian heath care system: a rotaviral vaccine and a pneumococcal vaccine for newborns.

These vaccines will help stave off infant diarrhea and pneumonia which kill more children under the age of five than malaria and tuberculosis combined.

A quick geography lesson: Ghana is located on the western coast of Africa, sort of. According to the CIA World Factbook it has a population of a little over 25 million of whom nearly 70 percent are Christian. The country is slightly smaller than Oregon.

This is sub-Saharan Africa, located just eight degrees north of the equator, so it is hot just about all the time. The temps have been in the high 80’s every day with a “feels like” temperature of about 104 because of the humidity. This is the beginning of the rainy season but we had only one rain storm, which was a dandy, and it passed in about an hour. Continue reading

Letter from Zanzibar, Tanzania

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com

Dear Mr. Mullings:

We believe we have had this discussion before. When you go traipsing off to interesting corners of the world, we expect to be along for the traipse. What happened to Friday’s MULLINGS?

Signed,
The Old Town, Virginia Explorer’s Club

Yes, well, we were in Zanzibar, which is a series of islands off the coast of Tanzania and the Internet went out Thursday night. I believe I might have uttered those famous words: “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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