<\/span><\/a> This village about 100 km from Madang, but with the curves=\n in the road and all it was a 325 km journey. The trip took us about ei=
\nght hours one Sunday. A friend from DWU, Brother Brendan, was our tour =
\nguide and along the way we collected up a friend of his, Damlik. Damlik=
\n is a recent DWU grad who is presently interning in medicine at a rural =
\nhealth center and soon will be a practicing doctor. We picked up Damlik=
\n on the outbound journey and enjoyed the day with him. (You can see Dam=
\nlik in the photo of the dug out canoe.)<\/p>\n
The trip took us along = We were told = <=\nbr\/><\/p>\n =<\/p>\n The children were= The more we live here, the more often we say ever= In February we had the pleasure of ma= king an excursion to the village of Medibur. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe North Coast Highway from Madang. The road was in excellent conditio=
\nn in places and very rough and pot-holed in others. On good stretches w=
\ne could manage as much as 80-100 km\/hr but in many places we only averag=
\ned around 20 km\/hr. It turns out Br. Brendan knows a few folks in Medib=
\nur. A few years back one man from the village was a student at DWU.
If you're curious, you can locate Medibur here: http:\/\/wikimapia.o=
\nrg\/26968836\/Medibur<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/s=\npan><\/a> The folks in this village live in simple grass houses, as you c=
\nan see, as their ancestors have done for generations. The village has a=
\n generator which they can choose to run if they care to use the fuel. S=
\nuch villages sometimes run their generator for a few hours each week. C=
\nooking is done over open fires and you can see laundry in the pictures.<=\nbr\/><\/p>\n
\nthere is an open pit toilet across the highway from the village (20-30 m=
\neters away). There is also a school for the children somewhere nearby a=
\nnd a rural health clinic within a few kilometers. Such improvements in =
\nvillage life were mostly unknown throughout the country except for the l=
\nast few decades.
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\n fun. Children are certainly the international ambassadors of good will=
\n, everywhere. They laughed, sang, ran, and played all around us. When =
\nthey saw our camera, they just had to have their pictures taken. Beside=
\ns me and Cindy, you can see Br. Brendan with the children. We asked abo=
\nut the adults but it seems most adults simply go inside their houses whe=
\nn outsiders are in the village. Br. Brendan did visit with the two men =
\nhe knows in the village. We also paid respects at the gravesite of the =
\nformer student, who died of tuberculosis a little while ago.
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\ny day "expect the unexpected!"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"