Photos!

I am hoping this will work, but here are some assorted photos from my first few weeks here. Its taken quite a while to upload these.

These are the new Healthy Kitchens (or Clean Air Kitchens as they are changing to being called). We are working on installing these in a number of communities. They cost about $280 in total but cost the people in the communities about $40 to get one and invest in their health and future. The people I know who have them, love them!

We have done a lot of de-parasiting in four of the communities where we work. All of the kids love to see the picture of the worms on the front of the package! They are just two chewable tablets that take care of a wide range of parasites, we try to do this at least twice a year to all the kids at the schools.

This is a photo from one of our pregnancy Charlas (community health lessons) in a village called El Chonco. We do them in the feeding center near the school.

This picture is inside the church at Miguel Cristiano which is a community where we work that is very far North near the Honduran Border. We were there two weeks ago to do a community day which started with a Charla on their soon to be finished water system and water health in the morning for the young people. This was followed by lunch together as a community (talk about feeding hundreds! I was so worried we wouldn't have enough food for the 100+ people we were expecting, silly me, God had it all planned out) and a Charla in the afternoon for the adults over the same topics. They were well attended and seemed to really be of value to the people in the community.

This is one of the beautiful sunsets as seen from the terrace on the roof at the property here in Chinandega.

This is one of the Charlas for the pregnant women in Ste. Matilde. I am working on designing a means of evaluating what the women think of these lessons that will remove as much as possible of the bias in the feedback we have been getting so far. The hope is to make them better for the women and make sure the information is easily accessible to them all.

We did take a little time to go to the beach in our teams here. It was a great and relaxing Wednesday last week. I love my new hammock!

This was from a Charla in Mina de Agua where we were talking about the new kitchens with the people there and then meeting with the CAPs team (in charge of maintaining the water system) to tell them about the OneSight Brigade.

We have had a lot going on in a few short weeks! I can't wait for there the next few!