Health project I: Just considering ideas

TATU Project is a little organization, like a baby. It’s growing fast and I believe it’s growing in the good direction, or even better, it is not growing only in one direction, but it is observing all the ways, before advancing so much. Well, the fact is that I love the way they (we?) think and act. What I wanted to say is, inside a small organization, the health project has just been born: so, we are trying to get a lot of information (by the social study we talked about but not only) and making the correct contacts.

As Albane, one of the founders, has come back and we are having less work in the last two weeks, we managed to have a couple of interesting meetings.

First, it was with Wazo, a local organization which is focused on HIV prevention (look at this, TATU touches many fields of action but only in one place, as Wazo focuses just in one specific field, just one disease, but spread its action geographically). We got to know them through basketball, and our goals are complementary, so we will work together for sure, having to determine the accurate way. A possibility is empowering some members from group of mamas to be able to teach about stopping transmission of HIV.

Some days after, we met with 3 medicine students (Lugano, Adams and Hans), who are studying “MD” 5^th at KCMC. I met Lugano by chance when visiting the hospital. As they are interested on community health and they know already a lot because that’s an important subject in their curriculum, they are probably the best for being asked for advice in health issues. They like the project, and future collaborations will happen.

Besides all these, Jimena, Javi and I have been working with the group of mamas, giving seminars about basic health topics. Mine is being first aid. I will talk later about it.