The past two months I have been living at my site: Kerepei, Maewo. My goals thus far have been to make a community profile and integrate into the community, using these strategies to figure out the main health problems in my village. I really love my village! Though I was originally hesitant about going to a bush site, I think that my village ended up being a good fit for me. The community and my counterpart are very supportive of me. I think that it is also just bush enough where I get no internet and the such, but I have a few stores close by to buy food basics and spotty cell phone service.
But now the Community Health group is back in the Capital for phase two training. This training is designed to teach us more about how to apply for grants and how to better work with our counterparts at site, in terms of making projects together.
The health center that I work in coordination with helps people in several villages. This means that I really have to prioritize the projects that I want to get done, and that has been hard to do. However, I plan on making a workshop that allows the community members to prioritize their own needs. Through this workshop I will be able to empower the people to figure out their own problems, and in the end, come up with the sustainable solutions themselves.
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