Deuce in west Africa.

[lonegunman]

So I tuned in to PBS to watch a show on diseases in Niger. The country has a program where they are trying to cure or reduce some of the diseases common with people who live in a hut with goats and chickens and crap in the streets.

So they get a huge shipment of meds and need to load it to go cross country and guess what they have sitting there ready to go? A blue painted A2 with winch, sitting in singles and with racks twenty feet high in the back.

They stack it to the sky with boxes and fuel it up, then off they go. They chug down the roads, which are not that great and thru the country side and all over the place. The rest of the show was interesting as well but the truck was in a few close ups and looked like it was holding up well.

It is interesting to see all the places they end up.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Do you have the PBS Station callsign and maybe a more specific name for the show?? - I'd like to see if I can catch it if aired locally - and maybe grab some vid-pics to post here.

Thanks for posting this up.
John

 

[lonegunman]

The show was called "Survival: Life in the Balance" and was on the local PBS station at 8pm Tuesday the 13th. Besides being an interesting show about treating tropical diseases and trying to get folks to improve their living conditions, it had a deuce.