Quote: "Greg found out that the nearest doctor was a weeks walk away."
Question: How does having modern commodities such as a car, modern medicine, or proper sanitation effect our day to day lives?
Comment: The quote is referring to the week long walk that it takes for the villagers of Korphe to get to a doctor. They don't have cars, or antibacterial medicines. The sanitation is such, that small sicknesses such as a cold are multiplied ten fold in rural villages. It's very foreign to Americans, who their entire lives have had things like cough syrup, and band-aids. Hearing something like this shocks me, but at the same time i can expect it. Its a very strange thing, all it takes is a trip around the world to see that some places are still in the proverbial " Stone Age". It also excites me, because at the same time they don't have to worry about the same things that we do, simply because theyre not connected to the rest of the world. In the end, though when a town doesn't have these things like doctors or schools, it makes you want to do something about it. You want to help these people. But where do you start?
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