Okay, here I am teaching my first formal lesson in Kreyol! I love this picture because my colleague Evelyne (far left) could not look less enthused. ;-)
Here are Enoch and Clercilien, making a "fly" out of a banana, matches, and leaves. It was used in a skit about cholera transmission.We held two big trainings the second week of January, one for our trainers in the province of the northeast, and this one in the north. We wanted to make sure that all of our trainers had the latest lessons on cholera prevention and treatment, including the Doctors without Borders strategy of oral rehydration posts scattered throughout the communities to prevent the countless deaths that have been occurring when people cannot get to cholera treatment centers in time. (It is often impossible to travel at night and in the rural areas distances are long over difficult roads.)
Here is Madame Grimard, one of our other core facilitators, teaching a lesson called "God and Cholera." There is a pervasive belief here that God is cursing Haiti. This lesson goes through Scripture passages showing that God seeks to bless us. We then discussed practically that God had indeed given us everything we needed to combat cholera, including essentially free methods for hand washing and making water potable.
And finally, here is Anias -- he works with our partner organization The Water School. He moved back north after surviving the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince last January and started with us in the spring. His amazing work with the SODIS method for making potable water along with training on hygiene and latrines has now expanded from zero to thirty communities. He has a fabulous smile, can you see it?
