The bags are packed

Today, we (April and Rena) returned to Chiputula Primary School for our second day of nutrition classes. Yesterday was a great introduction to teaching, and we were excited to see some of the other standard 7 classes. For our first activity, we taught our students about diabetes and the effects of eating too much sugar….

It is our first day of field experience! We visited the Chiputula Primary School and Mzimba North District Health Office (DHO) to introduce ourselves before beginning to work on the projects. We received a warm welcome from the teachers and students at the Chiputula Primary School where there are approximately 3,500 students from the first…

Our weekend started a day earlier than expected, so we took advantage of the day off to head up to Nyika National Park. Nyika means “where the water comes from,” and Nyika National Park was created in 1966 as a water conservation effort to protect the water that flows into Lake Malawi. About 30% of…

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…

We cancelled our original plan with the District Health Office (DHO) to verify COVID-19 immunization information because we got the news that there are planned demonstrations in the Center of Mzuzu. The demonstration was against the high cost of living in Malawi. The locals advised us to avoid the city centre because the demonstrations in…