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Gallery providing some history to Bahia's past - discovering roots from Benin.

in Pelourinho - part of Salvador, Bahia (Brazil)

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Ficus cyathistipula subsp. cyathistipula - Calandstr, Leiden, NL 23 Feb 2009 06 Leo

This fig tree grows in the forests of tropical, central Africa, usually at lower altitudes next to streams or rivers, sometimes in rocky places, up to an altitude of 1800m. Westernmost it grows on the coasts of the Atlantic in Liberia, easternmost it reaches the Indian Ocean where Kenya and Tanzania meet.
From west to east, and north to south, it occurs in: Liberia, possibly parts of southeastern Guinea, southern Ivory Coast, S Ghana, S Togo, S Benin, S Nigeria, most of Cameroon except the northern panhandle, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, possibly southernmost Chad, all of the CAR except the utmost NE, the entire DRC, the northern ¼ of Angola, possibly southernmost Sudan (Al Istiwa'iyah), Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, SW Kenya, all except a bit of SE Tanzania, N Zambia (northern North Western, Copperbelt, Luapula, Northern) and northernmost Malawi. In 2007 there was a new report of an isolated population of this subspecies from the Mount Namuli inselberg in the Zambezia Province in central Mozambique.
Origin: Cutting from a plant in the hallway of the Larenstein Agricultural College in Deventer.

Check out this great website for more on African figs (and their pollinators): www.figweb.org/Figs_and_fig_wasps/index.htm

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It's leaves grow in whorls. The plant in the photo had not grown a single leaf in 1.5 years. It spent this summer outside, where the apical (7 leaves) and lateral buds (3 to 5 leaves) finally opened. It hasn't done anything since.

I have seen trees bear fruit now and then, even in office settings.

Health care, racism, and sustainable development

This is a health clinic. It is actually the place to come where women can receive some professional assistance for complicated newborn deliveries.

Women come from villages in "the bush". There is a small rural hospital only a few more kilometers father away, but these women are not welcome or treated there because they are from a different tribe and cast, than those that run the hospital.

What's it like? There are some limited medicines, a nurse supported by a local NGO, and water.

The roof has holes in it. There are only a few beds and the protective covers are worn off, exposing the fabric underneath, there are no lights or electricity, poor latrines for sanitation and the women must provide their own food in addition to paying the nurse for help and medicine.

We are working with Central Afrika Obota through the WATER program to help provide health training, education and improved conditions for the clinic. I believe international development is most effective and sustainable when working in small groups with small groups - collectively this can affect real and significant change. We welcome any encouragement, suggestions and support.

For more information visit: web.mac.com/water_dr

Patrick Ruffino à Wambrechies