Friday, May 7, 2010

Work and such

So I'm currently at our office enjoying some Chuck Brown, James Brown, and P. Funk on Pandora Radio. I'm gathering resources to put on a formation in Dori on the 20th. Heres the basic outline.

1. Educate primary school students on fecal-oral disease transmission, as well as the virtues of latrine use. Many students defecate in a field near the school. This would normally not be problematic, however there are over 200 students and many of them use the same field to play soccer (gross!).

2. Teach proper handwashing techniques, and install a handwashing station next to the latrines at the primary school.

3. Make 15L of liquid soap with local woman, therefore encouraging proper handwashing at home, as well as at school. Soap making can also be used as an income generating activity for local women, allowing them to have money for school supplies for their children.

Following this I'll be heading over to Djibo; to assist Mr. Charles Casler with a girls camp. We don't have specific activities nailed down yet, but theres going to be alot of camp games, and hopefully a little bit of education as well.

Thats about what I'm up to at the moment. And now Pandora is playing Rob Base, and Digital Underground...So I'm going to do a dance.