During the week we first focused on passing out hygiene kits. If you noticed some of the pictures, the children’s teeth are already rotting and if you can’t tell, they are typcially always dirty. So our hygiene kits consisted of toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap.
We passed these out amoung the homes and while we did that we did a survey to find out some basic characteristics about the people’s lives in La Acequia.
53% of the people have water 0-3 times per week
48% of the people have water 4-7 times per week
(i’ll post more stats later once I complete them)
We also conducted seminars to help educate the people. We did a hygiene/first aid seminar. We had the students line up in the shape of a mouth and we taught them how to properly brush thier teeth. We also did some basic first aid on kids and handed out medicine for some that were sick. We had a huge line out the door of the church!
We also did a seminar on composting. I thought this seminar was really important because not only can we help the people learn how to create good soil to use to grow food, but we can help them to make better use of their trash, instead of throwing it on the ground.
We also did a finance seminar to help people gain knowledge on managing their money as well as training for starting a business.
