Health project II: Teaching mamas

I didn’t expect teaching mamas was going to be that great! They are participative, dynamic and funny, so funny. And I didn’t have that much trouble to catch their attention. They had told me that it could happened that they fall asleep at class…

I guess having advice from Jimena, Itxaso and Javi has been paramount in this successful experience. They suggested me to do a lot of things for catching their attention: well, we did quizzes, jokes and a lot of theatres. Even when a dead bat fell down from the ceiling, I pretended to be doing CPR: oh! We laughed a lot during these two seminars.

By the way, we talked about first aid, about unconscious casualty in the first day, and more common cases in the second day: foreign body obstructing airway, wound disinfections, alarm signs in head trauma, nose hemorrhage… In all cases, we (Mwalimu Sara and me) focused in three main things: check for Danger, ask for Help, and use GLOVES. I prepared the seminar based on the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines, adapting the info using a book specialized on these kind of coursed in East Africa.

The good thing of this group of women (empowered by TATU) is that all the knowledge I spread between seven women on Tuesday and Friday, is spread on Saturday to all the rest, around one hundred women.

I think the seminars have been useful for them (I hope they will improve for example the way they disinfect wounds in their children), and I really enjoyed the time spent with these seven women.