Community Health Education

This morning we went with a WHIZ Community Health worker to a local village area. We sat on benches under a big shade tree. It was neat for the students to have opportunities to share about various health education topics as well as learning about what things the women had already learned and put into practise. My favorite part was interacting with the children and mothers after the education time as they were preparing to eat lunch. Each week this group of mothers meets together with all their children under 5, for education and to eat a well balanced meal. In the photo below one of the girls, she is 26 months old, is eating Nshima (a cornmeal mush of sorts) with a sauce of Kapenta (small dried fish) and soy chunks.

Here's Estie getting help putting Patrick on her back. She's gotten to play with him a number of Sundays at church and enjoyed carrying him around on her back for a while this morning. They use the traditional piece of cloth, a chetenge, to tie their children on to their backs or sides. The women also use the same material for many other things, including as a wrap around skirt.