Summary
Under a cloudless African sky, Charise Mueller is weighing babies. This is her task, day after day, hour after hour.
She stands in a schoolyard in Chawila, a village in Zambia, a country in southern Africa slightly larger than Texas. She stands 60 miles from a paved road and 9,150 miles from the sprawling home in Black Forest she shares with her husband and five children.See the full content of this document
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Zambia: Remains
She has not traveled so far by herself. A dozen of her fellow workers have traveled with her from Colorado Springs as part of a group of 120 American volunteers.
She's part of the Zambia Medical Mission, which offers free medical care each summer to more than 16,000 Zambians, who rank among the world's most impoverished residents. The life expectancy in Zambia is 38 years, second lowest in the world.Her work is stressful. Over the six days of clinics, she will weigh thousands o...See the full content of this document
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