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ARCHIDONA

Archidona is a colonial town, founded in 1560, north of Tena, Ecuador in the Napo Province. Archidona still serves as one of the region's main missionary outposts. It's also a business and social center for the small Kichwa communities in the vicinity.

Street view Archidona

Hospital Stadler Richter in Achidona that requested some maternity equipment.  There isn't a obstetrician in the city so the expectant mothers have to go to the nearby city to deliver their babies.  Many still have them at home.

 A meeting with the hospital director.  The two men on the right are Dr. Zambrano who is a member of our ward and works for Charity Anywhere and the man on the right is the exmayor of the city.

The baby beds in the maternity ward.

Their basic obstetric equipment.

The delivery room.

The laundry area of the hospital.

This area of the laundry is covered and the clothes can be protected from the rain.

Watching some butterflies on the flowers.  They were all over!

We also went to visit a birthing center.  This little baby had been born there 6 months ago.  Many of the native people wrap their babies in a blanket or piece of material to carry them.  Many of the women carry them on their backs.

Here is a painting of how the native women give birth holding on to a rope!!

Here is their medicine cabinet full of herbs and roots to use during the delivery!

Here is the rope where they give birth.  There is a big mattress on the floor under the rope!

Some pictures of the jungle.

A house in the jungle.

The corner store.

A house in the jungle taken from the car in the rain.

Another typical home along the roadside.

More greenery on our way home.

It rained most of the time we were there.  You can see the fog on the hillside and the cows.  This picture was taken closer to Quito so it wasn't so overgrown with vegetation.  Farmers farm steep hillsides in the Andes.