After about 10 hours of travel.. I got
off the bus and my first thought of Natitingou was that it
is dry, dusty, and... cold? It is currently the season of harmatan
(which doesn't really exist in the south where I live – at least
not in a true sense) and for those of us who live in the north – it
is cold!
I am up in Nati for round two of Amour
et Vie training.
Mostly training two is for feedback on
the work that we have been doing for since August, as well as for
talking about the plan for the next few months, a plan that will get
our teams to be sustainable once we leave. We set up a game plan to
continue doing demonstrations/sensitization in the village (and to
find new groups to work with).. and we also discussed plans for
starting a health club in the local CEG (high school) to talk about
the subjects that we discuss in Amour & Vie: malaria, hygiene,
sexual health and HIV prevention. Our current calendar gets us to the
end of April, at which point they will be working mostly on their own
for 4 months before I leave.
The workshop wasn't all work. We also
brought the teams on a field trip to see the local Koda waterfalls,
and I got a chance to see the workstation up here in Nati, eat some
local food, see some local markets, and spent a lot of time catching
up with friends.
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