Friday, November 16, 2007

Photos: Health Promoters at Work

Health promoters learning to check Hct

Weighing babies in Tierra Santa
Health promoters in class in Quixaya
House (body) protecting itself from invasion (infection)
Shom and Elena demonstrating with flour how infection is spread

Reviewing chicken anatomy before our practice dissection

Finding crazy chicken organs
Proud surgeons
Chicken dissection

Kate demonstrating "bloated"
Kate and Shom with forehead labels ... a exercise with the health promoters
Clara as "camaron" (shrimp)

Telma as "Ibuprofeno" Vicente on Halloween ... festive sticker and all
Dominga, her 12-year-old daughter, and her mother

Teaching third-year promoters about gastritis

More teaching about gastritis
Dominga doing a cavity count with school kids in Totolya
Dominga and Vicente in San Gregoria ... Dominga carrying dinner
Medicinal herb garden in San Gregorio
Petrona, third-year promoter, with her medicine closet in Totolya
Giving ivermectin for intestinal worms
8-year-old school kids lining up for their fluoride treatment

Incaparina: a vitamin-rich nutritional supplement

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