1978 Seoro, Tambacounda, Niokolo Koba Safari Park and Game Reserve
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1978 Seoro, Tambacounda, Niokolo Koba Safari Park and Game Reserve
1978 SEORO, TERRES NEUVES, NIOKOLO KOBA National Park & Game Reserve, SENEGAL ORIENTAL, MALI BORDER with Hollywood's 'Safari Hotel' and "Ursula Andress Bridge" - "France-African Cooperation Technique & Culturelle" Faculté de Medecine, Medecines du Monde, Peace Corps, Unicef, Unesco Volunteers for Progress and Doctors Sans Frontiers, World Doctors - Unesco audio-visual guy said: "You can't just get off a plane in Africa with a Camera under your arm and go out into the Brousse, come back with a film! I've been trying to do that for years and never got out the door!"- "You wanna bet? Just watch me!" Did it, too! Mandate from Dakar's medical school, I chose a thesis from « Volontaires du Progrès » where a doctor reached out via regular visits to scattered and medically abandoned rural villages of Eastern Senegal -- forming and updating medical agents in each village - a Male first-aid agent and female "Matron-Accoucheuse, Sage-Femme" in 14 "Terres Neuves" villages of the Sahel "near desert" ("brousse"), where lack of transport, electricity, pharmacies make basic medical care a rarity. I had all the time I wanted, so after briefings and interviews with Guy d'Aurajo and Michèle Costa at the Tambacounda clinic, hospital Military Doctor Diouf & his wife, the Chief Sage Femme, a brief meeting with the Chef Regional des Grandes Endemies, Dr. Xavier Bigareau - I accompanied French Nurse Chantal Visine to Séoro, for about a month of "scouting", photographing and filming silent "local ...
YouTube | August 14, 2011
