What a day!

Temps passe vite! and a lot has happened since we last updated the blog.

The first week of august was the international breastfeeding week. Since our degree project has a lot to do with breastfeeding we were invited by the dietitian at the Ministry of health to participate at a ceremony promoting breastfeeding.

It was very interesting. Representatives from Unicef, the government and different NGOs gave speaches and there were plays and dances. Then we stayed and had some bouille and talked to various NGOs, working with the theme of breastfeeding. It was all very good, but the week has been celebrated since 1958, and even though ministers from the government were there, the celebrations in Yaounde had not seamed to reach much beyond the ceremony since hospital staff from other smaller hospitals in the country had never heard about it.

When we told the staff of one of the hospitals about the upcomming breastfeeding week they decided to arrange what they told us was going to be a small celebration, but when we got there we were met by what semed like one hundred breastfeeding mothers singing a breastfeeding song, specially composed for the occation, written by one of the nurses. Doctors, nurses and professors gave us all lectures about advantages of breastfeding. We ate sweet bread and of course bouille.

Other things we have been doing has been to present our project to the university here and we have also tried to do a fourth focus group discussion, but the last group is a bit harder to get hold of and the interview will not happen until next week. We have also been trying to meet with Nestle, but the meeting coincidated with a monsoun rain and it seemed like the whole capital decided to stay home insted, since we had three cancelled meeting the same day.

Last monday we visited the artmarket and after a lot of bargaining we got a lot of nice things to take home to friends and family.

The computer I am using is giving me electric shocks so I am going to quit now and I am not going to put my camera out for the same ordeal that I just suffered, so the picture to this text has nothing to do with it really it is just a nice picture of wooden statues in Banja at one of the Chefferies. I will update with a coupple of suiting pictures plus tard.

//Frida