Word: nakalama
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Nearby, sunlight streams from an opening in a thatch of trees onto Faziira Nakalama, a cook, as she proudly lists the ailments (her own and her neighbors') cured by the leaves and roots of the Pronus africana. "Decreased immunity, stomach pains, malaria... the forest is very important," Nakalama says...
...advising residents to limit their use of the rapidly disappearing medicinal trees. "In a few years, these plants will be very scarce in Ugandan forests," Kamatenesi says. And residents depending on the forest for jobs, food and shelter - and who live miles away from a pharmacy - are worried. Asks Nakalama: "If they chop down all the trees, where will we get our medicine...
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