personal hygiene

in the midst of the students from Taylor, we were also joined this past week by Jen Kuhn, who is a pediatric ER nurse at the Childrens Hospital at Austin. she came to teach a few lessons on hygiene and basic baby/child care.

her first stop was chichigua, where we have found that many of the mothers don't know how to take proper care of their newborn babies. she started with quesion/answer time, and it went so well that she never got to an actual lesson. they all learned a lot about their immediate medical needs and how to treat them.

in pancho mateo, the kids got a lesson on personal hygiene. basic lessons, such as why we need to wear underwear and shoes, are very valuable in a place where kids run around naked through trash and mud (the same area where many of them relieve themselves). she was also able to do a little sex/puberty-ed for some of the older kids. though many of them have already been exposed to the facts of life, they lack knowledge about related hygiene.

it was such a blessing to have Jen here to teach these things to our students and help out the families. we hope to see her here again soon ;-)