I believe the most moving and touching experience of the trip was hearing of the day to day decisions that many of the women living in NBG have to make. Decisions that we would not even consider or could even imagine a mother would have to be placed in. When one has to go to sleep at night or should I say try to go to sleep because of the lack of food and water, it puts a whole knew meaning to sleep apnea. In the US we have difficulty sleeping because we have indigestion from eating too much too late in the evening. We can’t sleep because our minds are trying to solve the problems of the overstimulated lives we live. How would you like to go to sleep at night and not be able to sleep because your mind is trying to figure out where you might find food or water tomorrow?
Or even worse, do you take your newly born child 2 days into the nearest town to get medical attention or leave your 2 year-old sick child, not know if they will be alive or not when you return.
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