Week two of trainings

That's week two of 38! Sounds a bit daunting at the moment but I'm confident it will fly past. The picture is me in the process of making the fake boobs that many of you have been expressing an interest in. They have been useful in that the trainers are able to use them to describe breastfeeding and breast conditions without any loss of professionalism, but of course, the women we are training have no qualms about showing us all properly. We had a live demonstration of breastfeeding today! Nothing like the real thing. The community health workers that we are training are being really receptive to what we are teaching. Some already have quite a high level of knowledge, which makes it even more fun, to try and challenge and encourage them in their work, and still involve the older ones who perhaps are not so up to date. Our oldest one so far is 82. Not sure we will be beating that record in a hurry.

I'm also putting in a picture of the canteen at one of the clinics we support. A big plastic bucket with fermented maize porridge in it. Delicious!! Better than the fried food at St Mary's??

Over the weekend we attended the family health day at the Cabrini Mission - one of our partners. It was a day for all the partners to come and give health information to the community and to tell them about what we are doing in their area. We were there with our drama team again - Pelepele. They did their drama about HIV and malnutrition for about 1000 people. It's a really nice piece - starting and ending with a song to draw people's attention to the message. I love it! We gave out lots of literature on eating healthily, and some apples and a few squishy bananas for healthy snacks.