Internet at Mambisanda Hospital

Slowly but surely the modern conveniences of the western world are making their presence known in PNG.  While most people here don't own their own computer, or have ever even sat down to use one (I watched a friend of mine using a computer for the first time and, after I opened a word processor, it took him ten minutes to type the first line of his mailing address).  A two minute walk from where this picture was taken gets you back to the more traditional grass roofed houses, lack of indoor plumbing, and no electricity.  But the prevalence of such things like cellphones is quite astonishing.  Not quite as bad as the third graders having cell phones in the US, but just about.  I would say that about 70% of the adults have cellphones, even if they don't have electricity they will walk to somewhere that they can plug into the 240V power system, even if it's by 'hot wiring' the phone into the overhead lines.  Such is the dichotomy of Enga.