April 5, 2007
Bangladesh
In the golden haze of dawn, Mohammed Salim Sheikh walked slowly through the paddies, so frail and thin that the lungi wrapped around his waist looked like a clown’s oversize trousers. Monowara Begum showing medicines to families in Majira, another village in the program. The village caregivers sell simple medicines and hygiene products, as well as identify the sick and monitor treatment. Carrying a treatment chart in one hand and a stainless steel water glass in the other, he crossed the threshold of a house. The housewife inside, Zahida Khatun Jharna, rose from her cooking fire, fetched his medication and filled his water glass. Then she ticked off his chart for the day and sent him home.
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