On 13 June 2012, we conducted a health day in Najembe. Cars with loudspeakers drove around advertising it and we ended up having a pretty good showing. All together, we de-wormed over 800 children, taught classes on malaria, sanitation, and dental hygiene.
Holly and Lane building a tippy tap. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of the Boy Scout lashings.
Brianne, Taylor, Elise helping the lines of children take their deworming pills.
Kerri helping a child take his deworming pill.
Marissa and Sarah teaching about malaria
Young guys started gathering to see what I was doing. Probably curious and skeptical of what we were trying to do. We had a good time building and teasing each other.
Marissa and Sara teaching about Malaria using the illustrated story book that they created.
Building the Tippy Tap hand washing devise. When people do wash their hands after using the toilet out in the villages, they usually pick up a water jug with dirty hands and so they never really get clean. The tippy tap helps solve this problem. The guy in the orange shirt ended up getting really excited about it and taught the people how to build/use it for me. I told him that if he promised to keep teaching people in the village, they could keep our tippy tap. He was excited about it.
Completed Tippy Tap. Simply step on the foot peddle and your dirty hands never have to touch the water container.
Not everyone loves health days
Troy and Simon teaching dental hygiene
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