Something must be done. One person she knew has passed her auto driver's exams but she has not received her license because she refuses to pay the expected bribe. But sometimes they forget they are church members and part of our job is to remind them. Transportation is a major problem for pastors. She said it would take her the rest of the day to get home.
Family planning is one of the church's emphases.
At the Manankavaly hospital a woman recently had her 11th child. But it was said that in the final analysis it is the man who decides and if he wants more children to care for him in his old age he simply gets another woman. Some 40,000 persons are said to have been trained in exorcism and the laying on of hands. There is also a hospice for people possessed by spirits. About half the population follow the traditional religions.