One room school

In the picture is the underdog school I mentioned

in the last blog post. 

It looks like it has four classes combined.

I went there last wednesday and with Amidou

(he's the health relay. A health relay 

is the liason between the health clinic 

and the village) we started a little 

tree nursery of moringa and afterwards

went over the proper hand washing technique.

Nothing earth shattering at this point

but it is the first time doing any activity

at that school or in the village itself.

It takes time to get used to each other

and get going in right direction activity wise.

There is the different culture factor that

has to be worked through before it 

all opens up.

This was a decent yet humble start and

here ... things are done with and in time.

This Monday it is back to that village 

to talk about the method of contracting

malaria. I am convinced that the people

aren't sure or understand why 

they should use their bed nets.

This is going to be done while making tea

and it should be targetting the adults.

I am going to try and get a little more technical

than usual and see how it goes.

Maybe it will work ... we'll see like normal.

Also next wednesday it's back to the

one room school to go over the brushing

of teeth. Again a small activity and one

topic at a time. 

I have been out to a few other villages 

and still developing the connections

at each respective one. When those are 

established I think it'll be kind of duplicating

the activities village to village. Of course

it can all change in a minute.

One crazy thing that is happening at 

this moment is that it is raining and

it's in the middle of the dry season.

It's also raining well enough that I'm

locked in the house area as a result of the 

river of water passing by. This is my

first dry season here so it could be a normal

occurence but will ask later to find out for sure.

The other countries with dry seasons I've

been in never had rain.

When it rains out here in the bush 

one usually stays put. After sending in this

blog post ... it is grab a book and

wait it out. 

A lazy Saturday morning in Burkina.