The past couple weeks have been flying. The reason for this has been due to increased responsibilities and involvement with Nexos Voluntarios projects. This has been a great opportunity to really exercise and develop my own capabilities. I have generated ideas that I would love to do and complete for Nexos. To complete what I want to do will take much homework and learning. In development, processes c an be slow and push the limits of your patients to new levels. The key to this is finding ways to be productive and further develop my own competencies and skill sets.
In the past two weeks we have been working with doctors, nurses and nutritionists in regards to the health of the Media Luna community and more specifically the health and nutrition of the children of the school named Villa Marcelo. We had a meeting with Medico (Doctor) Victor in regards to our projects. The Doctor set up a meeting with an Enfermera (Nurse), Soraida. We spoke to her about evaluating the health of children attending Villa Marcelo. The meeting took place at Puesto de Salud on the main road, close to Casa Andina, a nearby hotel. We were also given the name and number of a nutritionist in Cuzco, Neli. Soraida agreed to do this evaluation on Tuesday September 13, 2011 in the morning. She also has some statistics of a previous basic evaluation of roughly 60-70 students in Villa Marcelo from June. This evaluation we were not aware about and would be something to talk to Hector the (“Director” of the school) about. Information such as this should be presented to us when working with the school.
On September 13th the nurse came to Villa Marcelo where we spent the morning recording data and evaluating the health and nutrition levels of 102 students. We are now waiting for the result of our analysis. Our next step is to educate and increase the capacity of the mothers of each student. The mothers will be cooking lunches for the children three times a week with. The meals that we have created are a balanced diet that will enhance the nutrition and hopefully improve the performance levels of the each child. The ultimate goal is to cause a spill over effect of our balanced and properly cooked food plan to the homes of each child. To start this capacity training we will be taking a small group of mothers to Cuzco for training and later bring a nutritionist to Villa Marcelo to further train the mothers.
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