Healthy Households Continued

We are now in month 3 of the program already and it is still going very well! One AC officially dropped out which is to be expected; again, ACs are volunteers that have outside responsibilities. At the second training on safe motherhood and family planning, only 8 out of 14 ACs completed all the surveys and were paid. By the third training on vaccines, 12 out of 13 completed all education and surveys with their houses and were paid. The one AC who didn't have her surveys completed turned them in the next day. This is a huge improvement! They are still motivated and the households still seem interested in the program. One of the challenges of this project will be maintaining this motivation.

The best way to learn is to teach and I can see the increased knowledge and confidence in my ACs. As for the households, one lady thought she couldn't get pregnant in the first year after giving birth. We talked about family planning a bit and I saw her at the CSB later that day picking up birth control. Yay!

August is the last month I am visiting households with the ACs and then they are on their own to complete the rest of the visits for the next 5 months. I feel confident that they will move forward with the program with only monthly trainings and check ins from me. So far so good!

You know you're a PCV when

-you get upset when you are ripped off even 100ar (3 cents)

-you have a 'taxi-brousse ride from hell' story in your back pocket