Come to Comanbo - Tapir Served Here

This week (left to right) Compassion missionary Jonas and medical residents Alexandra and Andreas, and Jay flew to Comanbo, a unique village because Shwar and Kichua people share it. 

Clinic at the village school:

Great entertainment - watching the medicos.

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This lady is taking an eye exam. Notice her hand. She has been working with roots that dye her skin black.

Later, Jay and the medical residents gave steroid injections to an older lady (below) with bad knees and a deformed foot. She had a wheel chair to get around in her hut and small platform outside.

Villagers work together as a team to survive. All food is shared. Cooking is a shared task, too. This lady had the responsibility of mashing manioc root in a huge wooden bowl to make chicha.

Someone had recently shot a female monkey for supper and then found out it had a baby. So this lady was raising it. Jay said she treated it like human baby. 

She also takes care of an orphaned boy.

Jungle supper was baked frogs and tapir. The frog picture made me squeamish but here's the tapir on the chopping block. Notice how the villagers put down fresh leaves as a cutting board.

Tapirs have 5 toes. Weird looking foot if you come from cattle country. 

 Villagers gathered after the lady below was bitten by a Congo ant. If the medical team had not been in the village to giver her medicine, her leg would have swollen and hurt for days.

Jay really appreciated this quote on the school wall: 

Deme con quien andas, te dire quein eres. 
Show me who you walk with and I will tell you who you are.

We all walk with someone. 
We worry about who our children walk with. 
We talk about who others walk with. 

Question: 

Who are we walking with? 

What road are we taking?

We are doing our best to walk where the Lord leads, taking tentative steps as we hold His hand in the jungles of Ecuador.  
We hope you are walking with Him, too.