Ngupa1 and Ngupa 2

I missed a post yesterday.  Had a great morning.  Trained the Care for Life staff on infectious diseases.  They were very eagar to learn and expressed a great appreation for the insight they recieved.  In the afternoon evening and all night till 4 am today Joao, Jonothan and I translated the booklet into Portugueese.  I mostly watched.  Today we went to Ngupa 1 and Ngupa 2.  On the way to the village we were waved over by the police.  They wanted to check our papers.  The military was there with their AK-47s and they querried Jonathan, because he spoke fluent Portugueese and wanted to know where he was from.  When he told them he had served a mission in Rio de Janero they were asking him questions as if he were a drug smugler.  They threatened to arrest us because some of us did not have our passports and visas on us. I just sat quietly and said nothing so they ignored me.  This is the first time I have ever been asked for my passport.  We were allowed to leave but were told that if we had 6 people in the truck again they would jail us and confiscate the vehicle. You can put 100 people in the bed of a pickup with them hanging all over the edges but we couldnt have 2 people sitting on a bucket seat in the front.  The Shoppas which are small minivans that are commercial transportation cram 16 people, charcoal bundles, straw bundles, chickens etc and that is common to see.  Both villages today were very receptive and the people have already seen dramatic improvements in their lives as the begin to follow the Family Preservation Program.  Only 1 out of the Ngupa 2 leaders used a latrine before Care for Life and now they all  built and used one.  In each group only one person could read so it is back to revising our health care booklet to more pictures and less words.  The people were like sponges anxious for the information we had for them.  We were greeted and sent off with an enthusiastic traditional singing and dancing expose.  What a reward for what little we do.  Tonight is Joao's famous home made Brazilian pizza, so tchau!