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houses are very simple, without electricity and water system. They are
built in very large compounds. A house has a salon, bed rooms, and kids'
room. Bathroom is outside the house, a deep hole enclosed with palm leaves
inconspicuously. There is also a bathing place. |
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The most typical house
is built of wood from the forest. They roof with leaves. |
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On the wall they
use thin woods and mud. Since they cook with firewood, kitchen is built
outside the house separately so that smoke goes out. |
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| Houses of mud bricks
and tin roof are not many, but increasing. |
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This is a residential
area of park officers near the national park headquarters office. I was
provided with a house here. |
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This is
an elementary school. In Mbomo there are an elementary and a junior high
school (in Congo they follow French education system). They lack teachers
and cannot provide adequate education. At junior high school some subjects
are not taught. |
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This is
a hospital. The building seems proper, but there are only very simple
equipment and facilities, and a doctor is also only one. A patient in
a grave condition must be transferred to a bigger hospital, 3 hour drive
away by car. When Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out, a separate building
was used as an isolation ward. |
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There
is neither post office nor mail delivery service, needless to add, no
telephone. Only communication method is radio. It takes time to catch
a person whom they speak to, and anybody can hear what they talk. |
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An
old man who retired the military runs a small museum. It exhibits ancient
money, accessories, agricultural utensils and other traditional goods.
I thought it very important to preserve these things like this, otherwise
others want to sell everything to foreign tourists, and nothing to tell
their history will remain. |
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Daily
diet Work
1 Work 2 Houses
& public facilities Ceremonial
functions
Entertainment Fashion
& Children Social
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