I must admit that doing this training was my friend's idea, yet I welcomed it with much encouragement and dedication.
I believe that training people better and more useful living and working it’s one of the keys of development. For this reason, gathering experience in training and making training materials is very important to me. So far I can see that people welcome knowledge but many have had no opportunity to have it since they have not gone to school, live in secluded areas or have language difficulties. I have made about 20 trainings and every time is exciting to work with the volunteers of the canteens because they are so interested in the knowledge and training that it's rewarding to talk to them. And, many more trainings will come!
Working on top of an "estera"/mat, planning and creating the training in a Sunday afternoon.
I sit in the floor to make the trainings more informal and to make it clear then I don't come as the "important or powerful" foreigner and white person but as an easy going and relaxed helper.
Since most trainees are illiterate, based in drawings and open communication, they learn about cholera without intimidating complex words and writing.
This photo was taken during my first training ever, it went very well!
Interns and supervisors translate the training in the local language, after a few trainings done by me, I encourage them to make the training alone so they also get to practice and experience.
Explaining the signs of dehydration!
The posters are folded to survive long hours of waiting and the bike, motobike, pickup and tight bus journeys.
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