4,500 people reached in Pointe Noire
INCEF educators Ella Bamona and Eric Kalla have finished a three-week AIDS education mission to Pointe Noire, the Republic of Congo's second largest city and center of its oil industry.
It was INCEF's first time working in Pointe Noire, and the team faced some new challenges. Chief among them was getting people to participate in the education sessions. INCEF typically works in remote villages where the arrival of our educators and our films are big events. On this trip, however, Ella and Eric had to compete against all the distractions of big-city life in trying to capture people's attention.
Ella and Eric also faced more personal challenge of their own. Ella is 5 months pregnant, and this mission may be one of her last before the baby arrives. And towards the end of the trip, Eric received word that his mother is gravely ill.
However, the team successfully overcame all challenges, professional and personal, to reach more that 4,500 people in four localities in and around Pointe Noire.
