Tragedy

I got home to my guesthouse last night to learn that the young son of one of the owner’s cousins passed away a few hours before. He was just three years old and died from cerebral malaria. Though saddened, the owner said ‘these things happen’. When you read of malaria fatalities and under-5 death rates it shocks you, but somehow this has brought it much closer to home and shows how much a part of life death is here.