Chabbaboma

Last Thursday I drove a group to Chabbaboma, which is a little village about 4 hours away from Zimba through the mountains and over a very narrow, bumpy road. There is a little health clinic and once a month we go there to help. The village is pretty close to Lake Kairba. It is tradition to shop for fish every time we go this health clinic so some people from Zimba put their order in. Being I drove I had to go shop for fish. Another man went with me and we arrived at a little village by the lake. After doing some talking and asking we found fish. There was a young lady at the place we bought fish and she recognized the man I was with. They talked for a while and he told me later that she had been a patient at the clinic. She has HIV/AIDS, and had been really sick. She was doing better but she had a baby with her and while they were talking she was breast feeding her baby. If the baby did not have HIV from being born; the baby would surely have it through being fed. Which is worse? Letting the baby starve to death because she cannot afford formula or be fed from the mother and live his life with HIV/AIDS. This hit me as I saw it all unfold before me.


Lake Kairba and a fishing boat. They use it to fish for Capenta, little small minnows that they dry and eat whole. They are not too bad. A real strong fishy taste though



Buying fish, breem, at the little village next to Lake Kariba. They sell them by weight--kgs