More Health Lessons

The 15th of this month was global handwashing day so I dragged Briana to one of the schools in our town so that we could do some handwashing lessons. I haven't previously taught at this particular school so it was nice to teach some kids that I don't know very well. This particular school is located about a 20 minute walk through the fields. The school is actually close to where I did my homestay.
Anyways, I talked to the kids about microbes and general sanitation. Then Bri and I demonstrated proper handwashing methods. Then we had a few kids come up to the front of the class to show us how they wash their hands. The funny thing is that they all knew proper handwashing already! So I felt a little silly but really the point is to reinforce proper handwashing. Just beacause they know how to wash their hands, doesn't mean that they do it correctly everytimle they should. I mean, almost every house that I go to still only uses water (and NO soap) to wash their hands before a meal. I'm just trying to get people to use soap when washing their hands... Just using soap could eliminate a lot of diseases people around here get, like diarrhea. I'll continue with the lessons at the two other schools and next week I'll be teaching a lesson about proper nutrition at this same school. Wish me luck :)

I haven't been doing much recently besides hanging out in my town. I will start my health lessons next week inshallah so things should be getting pretty busy soon. I actually wanted to update this today because I have been learning a few things about Moroccan migrant work in Spain. I spent the better part of this morning calling various agricultural offices in Spain to try to help some women from my town. There is actually quite a substantial number of women from my town that go to Spain every year to work on the berry harvests in early spring. There were a couple women who hadn't been invited to go back this year so they asked me to call and find out why. They don't speak spanish and my tamazight insn't that great but in any case i was playing translater. haha. It was quite interesting really. The people in Spain kept wanting to know who I was so I had to explain my role as a peace corps volunteer and then I had to ask them about the migrant work that these women do. I will try to learn more aout it from these women so that I can write a more well informed entry next time. I will leave it at that for now :)


For lack of a better image, I have posted this. haha. Here, I am hanging out at my host family's house on the day after Ramadan ended. They make all those cool rugs that I am sitting on :)