Living Health – serie

Focusing on traditional medicine and healing, this text begins with a short story. The second part of the book is a fact file on traditional and Western medicine.

Joseph wants to be a train driver one day. He always goes over the hills to see the trains arrive at the nearest station. One day a strange white train comes. This is a very special train and Joseph must run home to tell his family and the rest of the village what it has come for. The accompanying fact file explains different types of health care that are available to people in the local community and at large hospitals.

No one understands Nombu's dream. How can a girl be a traffic cop? The boys learn a lesson from Nombu and soon everyone realizes how dangerous it is to run into the road. Part of Level One of the "Living Health" series, this text includes a fact file that explains how to cross the road safely.

In this story, Vera dreams of riches and an easy life. Is Godfrey the "sugar daddy" for her? Her friends don't think so. The accompanying Fact File explains about AIDS and the HIV virus which causes it. The File also shows how people can avoid contracting AIDS.