In November we had a program to help prevent parasites in the children in the communities the clinic serves. We went out to each community, either to the schools or to a group meeting and provided the children with a medication to help prevent parasites for the next six months. We are about to start going back to the communities this coming month.
Weighing and measuring each child
Waiting in line for their medications
We also held a class to train new health promoters to work within the communities we serve. The class ran for nine weeks and we taught lessons on a range of topics including diabetes management, tropical diseases, first aid, and exercise. We had about 10 new graduates who have now begun working in their communities. More or less these individuals hold office hours once a week in their communities and see many of the clinic patients who have diabetes and/or high blood pressure. They check their sugar and blood pressure and give short talks on ways to modify their lifestyle and appropriately take their medications. This is a program that has been running for several years; this semester we are attempting to improve the continuity of education and the education that the promoters are providing to their communities.
Maria teaching first aid skills
Some of our students during a lesson
Grace teaching about nutrition
Kara teaching how to correctly use a cane
David teaching about diarrhea...with slightly out of control hair and a mustache
The graduating promoters with Maria, the nurse who works at the clinic and is in charge of the program
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