Outreach

My first two outreach programs have been wonderful. Danielle decided to start a women's group in Kakumdo. I happened to have good timing and therefore was here for the first week. We met in the old church and had a group of girls and women from 13-50ish. We have a list of topics and will be meeting on Thursday evenings. However, after our success with last night, we are starting tomorrow morning (everyone is off since it is the end of Ramadan). Our topics for tomorrow are peer pressure, stress management, and healthy lifestyles. We are starting with this in order to invite all of the school girls allowing for them to use this information in school!

The women seemed very receptive so it should go well! We are even kicking Nicholas out and bringing in a female nurse so that it really is all girls in a safe environment.

Teaching dental hygiene in the school today was blast! The kids were absolutely wonderful. I  taught them about the issues that can arise by not taking care of your oral hygiene. (Oral cancer, increased respiratory infections, eventual tooth loss, and even stroke or heart attack from the oral bacteria entering the blood stream. We also had to discuss what bacteria are which was fun.)

We also demonstrated the proper way to brush you teeth and handed out tooth brushes to the kids who asked good questions and answered our questions well.

They were all very glad to have us and the school administrators asked us to come back again. It was really great!