For my project Viviendas Saludables ("Healthy Homes") I basically work with mothers, pregnant woman and children to try to get them to adopt better health practices to prevent diseases. Right now the nurse, health promoters and I are going house to house in my small village, Oidor, and putting up "tipy-taps". An easy, AFFORDABLE station for washing your hands. We'll keep doing these visits with different health education themes for most of my service. Basically we waltz into the house, make some jokes, sit and talk with the families, then get to work on an educational session of some health topic. My favorite visit so far was to Juanito's house. He's 3 years old and saw the nurse with me in his house and started screaming bloody murder. None of the kids like our poor nurse, Grace, because she's the one that gives them their shots. Juanito was NOT HAPPY to see her to say the least, but then once he realized we were just washing our hands, his smile came back.
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| Synder |
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| Aline |
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| Snyder learning how to use the tipy tap |
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| singing a song about washing our hands with Aline and Snyder's mom, Asterik |
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| teaching Luis how to make the tipy tap |
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| Luis' mom |
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| GISLENI!! my little cutie pie!! |
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| Gisleni trying to help me out |
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| Evelyn, 15 years old |
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| my neighbors, Karen and Helson |
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| Juanito's face is in between all the hands |
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| Juanito helping me make the tipy tap |
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