Papua is a malarial infested place. Dengue is also another disease that fear us living here. Older missionaries taught us to be cautious and be prepared. Nowadays, we have cream and mosquito spray help prevent diseases cause by mosquitoes.
Some Bible translators in the village find ways to also help the villagers not getting the diseases by educating them. The Pill Box is a tool used by M. de Vries for the people that lives in the village where they do translation.
PILL BOX
The village people have no education. They are illiterate. So health workers would use color-coding to identify which meds each person need to have. As you can see in the pictures above. If they need Amox for antibiotics, or simple as Paracetamol.
Some expat health workers would use drawings... to illustrate if a person is sick with diaarhea, fever, malaria, scabies , etc.
A family, with the use of plastic containers and materials to illustrate if one is having a malaria or dengue by filling them with water and inject a red food coloring if one is infected. I thought, it was a brilliant illustration.
