Visiting Sewell

Sherri discussing possible treatment with the Kafwa while visiting Sewell with Graceland students

My appreciation and admiration for the Kafwa health workers went up yet another notch (how is that possible??) in June when we went home visiting with them.  Visits like these take people with grit and passion to persevere.  We visited Sewell, a 71-year-old widower the Kafwa have been visiting for months.  It's obvious looking around his little two-room home that there was once a caring woman in his life who made the house a home.   Sewell has a large, ugly, painful leg ulcer that he's battled for over 12 years.  Even though it still has not totally healed, he is extremely grateful to the Kafwa because he can walk again since they began treating him.  The treatment?  Home-made antiseptic made from guava leaves, triple antibiotic ointment, and bandages.  We're going to up the treatment by providing funds for protein in his meager diet to see if we can't get the leg ulcer completely healed.