1. Wealth in People Through people, one obtains: Knowledge (social, medical, religious, technical, etc) Wealth, through their labor A social safety net; people who can help in times of need Status (one becomes a grown woman or man through having children) But relationships also incur: Obligations and favors Potential risk of other people hurting you (witchcraft, etc); the closer they are, the more they can hurt you

2. Nursing mother, Cameroon grasslands, 20 th century

3. Cameroon Statistics, from the World Factbook, CIA 42% of population is 0-14 years (US: 19%); median age 18 (US: 37.6) Fertility rate: 4.82 children born/woman (US: 2.01) Maternal mortality rate: 690 deaths/ 100,000 people (10 th in the world) (US: 21, 136 th out of 184 countries) Infant mortality rate: 55.1 deaths/1,000 live births (US: 6.71) Life expectancy: 57.36 years (US: 79.56) Physician density: 0.08 physicians/1,000 people or 1 doctor/125,000 people (US: 2.42 doctors/1,000 people)