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Highlights from An Amazing Experience
with AMOS Health and Hope in Cumaica Norte, Nicaragua
June 23-July 3, 2016
- Amazing Rain - lots of Mud
… but doable with the good boots
- Hiking long distances via muddy hillsides to 64 homes to survey water
filter usage and make repairs
- Only 50% of the homes had or had ever had a filter and of those, only 50% were still functioning
- Needs for lots of education and determining why filter usage is low in this community
- We painted numbers onto
the houses to make it easier for Catalino (health promoter( to do the
census and track the families in the community
- Saw 50 children in our Health Stations Day - measured for height and
weight and checked via a small blood test for anemia - 21 of the children
still have low growth/weight levels and are anemic.
- All given vitamins with
iron and education of the need for nutrition and diet higher in iron
- VOICES program provided an opportunity for the teenage girls in the
community to learn more about themselves and how they can gain confidence
and self-esteem... led so
well by Angela and Rosario Caseres
- Lots of fun activities for the children including photos and decorating of picture frames, music - learning and singing De colores, making of a handprint banner, beads/bracelets etc. etc.
- So, a wonderful strong team, did great work, and are so glad we went and are in partnership with AMOS.
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