Our camera broke!
Alright so our camera is broken, does that mean we can’t write? Well it kind of takes the fun out of it for you all. I’ll try to give you an idea of what we have been doing the past couple of months, which have actually been busy, without boring you to death with giant walls of text.
I believe that you all know that we began giving hygiene talks at the end of January in a new community. We work in the school with the kids and their parents. They are very participatory and the director of the school is very supportive of our work (she quizzes the kids and the moms and dads afterward!). Working there has been something that we really look forward to doing.
February was a whirlwind for us. In addition to the new community and other commitments that we had with the health center, we collaborated with the NGO (non-governmental organization) Water for People. For the last two to three years, they have been doing health education trainings with the teachers in selected schools and, in some of those schools, building hygienic installations like latrines, hand-washing stations, and water deposits. They plan to expand their work beyond the schools to work with entire communities, but first, they had to get an idea of the communities with the greatest need. Obviously every one of the nearly 70 communities could benefit from the work that they do, BUT you have to begin somewhere.
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