A few weeks ago us northern health girls got together (in the mountains) to hold a health conference. We were each able to bring 3 women from our communities to learn about different health topics. I tried to bring 4 women (one neighbor with a friend of hers and my neighbor’s two daughters) but the other 3 couldn’t come and so I left my neighbor to find the others to come with us, and amazingly, she did! All three women that came with me are incredibly dynamic and had a lot of fun.
We headed into the hills of the Caribbean (it was SO cold) and then went further on the back of a truck. It was beautiful, at the base of the highest peak in the Caribbean, but as I said, freezing. There was no cell phone signal where we were, and it was funny to watch the women from my town, who’d only gotten signal a matter of days in their town before the conference, to be unable to believe there was no signal in the area! We gave sessions on nutrition, health campaigns, cancer, HIV, STIs, and I gave one on First Aid, which I am pleased to report went very well. I also gave a yoga class which went very well- it’s fantastic to watch donas doing the yoga!
Immediately after the conference I went off to a stove-making workshop led by a volunteer living very far from me. It was great-I learned how to construct one of these improved, cement stoves and was glad to be able to get in there and get my hands dirty with the work. So, I look forward to the day when I can start construction in my town on these stoves!
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