Byron Moralis, facilitator of AHMEN SIFAT Initiative, and the Community Agents train at the First Garifina Hospital in Honduras.
AHMEN and SIFAT have joined in a project in Honduras that we call the AHMEN SIFAT Initiative. This month will mark the end of the first year and result in graduation of 55 Community Agents in Cosuna, Honduras. Byron Morales has met with these men and women of Honduras quarterly for 3 - 4 day workshops covering a variety of learning subjects that were picked jointly by Byron and the participants of the workshop. The last workshop was conducted at the First Garifina Hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras - a village 10 miles from Cosuna. Here the participants were instructed in various aspects of health by Cuban and Honduran medical personnel.
The next step in the training process is GRADUATION which will take place in Cosuna on August 9, 2011.
One of the AHMEN team will be joining the participants for a joint learning experience during the last of their workshops. Subjects to be covered are:
- Blood pressure: how to take it and why is it important.
- Overdose prevention: It has been reported that often young people from remote villages will take the medicine left by medical missionaries inappropriately.
- Eye evaluation:
- Parasites: where do they come from and how and why to keep them out of the water source.
- Communication: The values and various techniques for communicating with fellow agents and with the AHMEN SIFAT Initiative.
After graduations, the community agents are expected to return to their communities and practice what they have learned. They will be offered an opportunity to go into a second and third year of learning.
To learn more about this, click on www.honduranmissions.com..
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