Sixth Graders Learn About Endangered People

Graham Pierce, director of the Foundation for African Medicine and Education, recently spoke to sixth grade students about his medical work in Tanzania, especially with the Masai and Hadzabe people. The Hadzabe are considered Africa's last hunter-gatherers and an endangered people.
 
Pierce brought a variety of artifacts, including shaped sticks that Tanzanian schoolchildren carry to ward off dangerous animals on their way to school, beautiful beadwork, and bows and arrows—thankfully, without the traditional poison.He recounted tales from his never-to-be-forgotten experience of hunting baboons with the Hadzabe in remote Tanzania and then sharing a meal with his hunting companions.
 
He specifically spoke about the urgent need for medical care, ranging from establishing mobile clinics to training of medical practitioners to creating clinics with specialty surgery suites. He invited the sixth graders to think about ways that they, too, may serve others.
 
Pierce is the stepfather of sixth grader Grace Lack,10th grader Ellie Lack, and senior Clara Lack. Their mother, Karen Knight, also joined the sixth graders.
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