Today we toured the NGO Gardens for Health and learned more about their work to improve nutritional education in Rwanda. Their model was very interesting by bringing women in from health centers and providing them with nutritional documents and supplies in order to ensure that the women have the seeds and resources necessary in order grow nutritionally valuable foods. We walked around the garden and weeded a plot of land, that is what I am doing in the picture attached! The other picture is me and Clara exploring the grounds of the garden as we were learning more about the different plants and how they give the mothers the supplies they need. Then we ate with the people in the organization and met a class of children that were eating with us. I remember that I had crayons in my backpack so I pulled them out and colored with all of the children. It made me happy to see that something so small, aka a crayon could bring so many smiles to people. We sat and ate for a long time and then we headed back home. Watching us travel through the rural areas gave me a new perspective and gave me a greater appreciation for the things that I have in my life.
Happy pioneer day from Rwanda! Today was very interesting because we attended lectures at the University of Kigali. The professor from Kigali lectured first and I thought his teaching style was so interesting! He would have his students fill in the blanks and read words off the slide collectively which took some time to get used to. Talking to the Rwandan students was one of the best parts of the lectures. Listening to them talk about global health helped me realize how so many perspectives can contribute to the successful implementation of preventative measures. Then, Waleed gave a lecture about his t ime in Yemen with Doctors without Borders. It was so interesting to look at global health issues and think about issues you would never think to solve. One for example was the bathrooms having to be well lit and convenient so that people are not intimidated to use the bathroom at night. Then we went to the Nyambirano women’s center were we toured a city and got to meet women that work fo
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