Today marks our last day in Malawi. We started the day by taking a tour of the mental health facilities at Saint John of God, a hospital and university that offers extensive mental health and special education services to adults and children in the surrounding areas. Among these include primary and secondary schools with certified…
Today was our last day at Chiputula Primary School. In the morning and early afternoon we administered the nutrition post-assessments and gave our syllabi and supplies to the teachers. After we collected all the tests we met with the head teacher, faculty, school management chairperson, community leaders, and head of the PTA (parent teacher association)…
We attended the polio vaccination meeting at 7:30 am as our final in-person meeting with the Mzimba North District Health Office (DHO). We had goodbyes with our team members who we spent the most time with for the past four days beginning 6:30 am until 6:00 pm. We will write a report on the polio…
For the last four days (Thursday to Sunday) the team has been out in the field working with the District Health Office (DHO) on surveillance for Round 3 of the Polio Vaccination Campaign. They each offered some thoughts on their experience. -Rena- The slogan “No one left behind”, I always see this when I’m looking…
Today was the last day of our 2022 SHANTU Summer Camp. To celebrate the end of our summer camp program, SHANTU members and Xinzhuang parents took our Healthy Helpers on a field trip to the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Shilin. We visited many interesting exhibitions during our field trip. The National Taiwan Science…
Today the team joined the long-awaited polio vaccination campaign. They arrived at Mzimba North District Health Office (DHO) at 6:30 am and were assigned to different groups with DHO supervisors. They then headed to different health facilities and villages to conduct three different surveys for campaign surveillance. In each village they would go to 10…
Today, our SHANTU teachers helped our little friends work together with their group to create posters and oral presentations to share their takeaways from our 2022 summer camp program. Younger students drew their favorite activities, and older students wrote English captions for the pictures and a script for an English oral presentation. Our Healthy Helpers…
Now that we finished teaching our classes at Chiputula Primary School, we will be dedicating the rest of the week and weekend to health activities at the District Health Office (DHO). Tomorrow officially starts round three of the DHO’s Polio Vaccination Campaign, but the week has been busy with preparations. Various people from the DHO…
Today, Teacher Jo taught our Healthy Helpers about nutrition and clean water. We began today’s class by reviewing the new words we learned over the last two weeks of summer camp. We played a word relay charades game. During this game, our Healthy Helpers acted out a vocabulary word to the next person in line,…
Our team had our last day of teaching nutrition classes at Chiputula Primary School today. We (Miku and Penny) had our third session of the nutrition classes for standard six, and our topic was cooking methods and preparation. We began our teaching by reviewing and making sure the students remember what we covered in the…
