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| Gremicile Jean-Charles, Community Health Evangelist in Lospinit |
I
have six children. They showed me how to live well with your
husband. If you yell at him, well, you should lower your voice.
I've started to do this. When my husband yells, I speak calmly.
Your children buy the words from your month [Kreyol proverb to mean
they will imitate you]. You should serve as a good example. Our
anger used to last longer, but now when I calm down I see that we
don't fight so much, and we also protect our children in this way.
My husband has also learned this. If I start to talk loud, he gets
softer. Then the fighting ends. CHE taught us this.
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| Charles Wisline, committee member in Lospinit |
I
am very grateful to CHE because they explained a lot of things to us.
I didn't know how to make a dishrack, I used to put dishes on the
ground. CHE taught me to make a dishrack for my dishes.
I
already washed my hands before starting with CHE, but I poured water
over them. Now I have a Tippytap because it's easier and you don't
waste water.
They
explained to me how to dig a hole for my trash. This way the trash
isn't spread all over your yard, it's just in one place. That is
cleanliness, it's better.
They
explained me how to wash vegetables well and also to boil the food
well before eating. I like this because I don't get sick this way.
They
explained to me that I shouldn't let my children walk barefoot,
especially when they are near pigs. This is so they don't get worms.
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| Ana Jean-Louis, Community Health Evangelist in Lospinit |
When I cooked I used to put the dishes on the bare ground. When I washed dishes I would put them on the ground, too.
Now I use a dishrack.
I
have an improved, raised cooking stove [cooking fires on the ground can lead to badly burned children, also to animals getting into the food] that I keep in good condition.
I used to use one but when it wore out I didn't fix it. Now I
always keep it in good condition and don't make a cooking fire on the ground
anymore.
When
our hands are dirty, when we finish working in the garden, when we
finish going to the bathroom we use the Tippytap. I used to put
water in a basin to wash my hands. But now we use the Tippytap and
we don't waste water. [With the Tippytap] you also don't need someone else to pour the
water for you.
When
we wash dishes we put them on the table and cover them so that flies
don't land on them and make us sick.
I
used to tie my pigs up close to the kitchen. Now I take their
excrement and put it in a hole and cover it with dirt. I use this
for fertilizer.
There
is a couple that lives with me. Sometimes they fight. I talk with
them and do lessons for them, hoping that they will stop arguing. I
haven't given up yet!
