Street art in Marromeau

We went to the small town of Marromeau this weekend to do some church work.  It is a town built next to a huge sugar factory at the end of the road, which is its reason for being.  There was a lot of community service type art work painted on cement walls.  So here is your health and history lesson for today.

Cholera still exists in Africa and is rampant during certain times of the year when
there is flooding.  This sign tells people not to "poop out in the open air" and
to use the bathroom.  The open air is a popular toilet, let me tell you!

This sign was at the local elementary school and I have seen similar ones in every
city.  It says that "using the latrine correctly keeps our school healthy."  It would be
hard to describe the smell here when I took the photo.

One of many signs concerning HIV or SIDA, as it is called in Mozambique.
This sign talks about getting information about preventing HIV from being
transferred from a mother to her baby.  Aids is rampant in this country.  The statistics,
which are high are still low because so much of it is un- reported.

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This is a sign for a beauty salon.  We laugh every time we see one because
the models in the pictures are so ugly.  I don't know where they get the
body proportions.  Often they will have a picture of a very
ugly woman in her underwear inviting you in to get beautiful.

If only this were true.  There is more drinking here than I have seen anywhere in the world.
Pints of whiskey, gin, wine, and other hard liquors are available on every
corner.  You see children under 10 lugging cases of booze to their little shops.  It is
a huge problem here.

This is part of a scene showing the history of the area.  You can see
the slaves being whipped, working and part of village life.  In
the center was a big painting of a preacher with gold necklaces on that
looked like a rap star.  I wish I knew the "rest of the story."

These two pictures are part of a display about mothers and children. The first
one tells people to bury or burn their trash.  The second one tells people
to wash their hands with water or ash.  I think this is part of the cholera prevention campaign, as well.