Saying Tchau

It's fairly difficult say goodbye to a place when one feels like there is so much yet to be done. The work is not yet complete, and yet the last grain of sand has fallen in the hourglass. Much of the final week was typical with work and various visits to the hospital or various other places in Beira.

Capellana store

Last minute shopping involved one more run by the capellana store to get some gifts.

One last visit to the Praia Nova Market

One last dinner with friends at Club Nautico.

Here are Deon and a newly made friend this week from Ethiopia working with Food for the Hungry called Halkeno.  His conversion story is impressive as his father was a significant party member in the communist government in Ethiopia.

Here are Lisa (Building Homes for Christ), Ruth Millner holding a little orphan they take home on the weekends, and Denize Versteeg (Brazilian who took us to Senga).

How can you be in Mozambique and not sample clams?  Here's a "measure."

Denize and Deon - great friends!

Chris Millner, son Caleb, and Lisa again.

Final morning at the Millard house with the "meeting of the minds."  I'm not still quite sure who exactly all these people work for - but they're doing brilliant things.  Peter (my boss) PhD, MD, MPH = lots of awesome research on circumcision, ultrasound, HPV, HIV, you name it.  Karine, I'm not sure what all she does but she's French Canadian doing some kind of work getting grants for an HIV vaccine that's in the animal testing stage.  Halkenos, Food for the Hungry, in charge of the HIV program for Mozambique.  And finally our clinical pharmacologist, who is working also on the HIV vaccine that will hopefully be hitting Africa by 2014.  Check out the January issue of Nature for more.

Do you sometimes just feel like you're not doing enough with your life when you're around people like this?  Uh, I sure do.  Good way to leave Africa, I think.  (Your work is nowhere near done!)