Life lessons
Ryan Calder, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is traveling in rebel-held eastern Libya this month, interviewing the revolution’s participants and witnesses. You can read earlier installments in this series here. BENGHAZI, Libya – "What do you do in the event of a third-degree burn?" asks Dr. Randa Abidia. "The hospital! ...
Ryan Calder, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is traveling in rebel-held eastern Libya this month, interviewing the revolution's participants and witnesses. You can read earlier installments in this series here.
Ryan Calder, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is traveling in rebel-held eastern Libya this month, interviewing the revolution’s participants and witnesses. You can read earlier installments in this series here.
BENGHAZI, Libya – "What do you do in the event of a third-degree burn?" asks Dr. Randa Abidia.
"The hospital! Straight to the hospital!" the kids respond.
I’m sitting in the third row of a classroom at the Libyan International Medical University (LIMU) in Benghazi. In the room are 10 girls and five boys, in front of whom stand Randa and her two student assistants, Maryam and Enas. They’re teaching a one-week course on first aid for children ages 9 to 14, and today’s two-hour session is on burns.
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