HIV/AIDS Workshops continued....

The group heading out to Chuicaca.



Giving my "bienvenida" to the whole group in the salon.




Julia and Adrian with their group outside.



Natividad and Antonio translating the workshop.




Esther and Zane starting "Globulos Blancos" with their group in the salon.

"Globulos Blancos" activity - the lady is trying to force her way into the body!

"Soy Parasito" - "I am a parasite". He was by far the cutest parasite I have ever seen:)

Val and Travis.

Another breath-taking view of Chuicaca's landscape.

Me and the professional nurse, Natividad - I love her :)

Kate and Stephen giving a workshop in front of the town hall.

When there is no chalkboard... use a french fry stand instead!

The group with the mayors of Chuicaca.

Don Miguel - President of the Health Promoters of Chuicaca.

Our way back to Santa Maria Chiquimula.

Our "classroom" as we were giving the workshops - so beautiful.

The HIV/AIDS workshops are now completed! Friday I had 8 of my friends from all over Totonicapan come and help give the final HIV/AIDS workshop Friday to almost 300 people! The whole week couldn't have gone better and I can't thank the people who helped me give the workshops enough (Val, Zane, Stephen, Adrian, Kiki, Kate, Esther, Julia, Travis, Jerami, and Jesse) - without them this wouldn't have been possible, so thank you guys!!

Friday, we all pack in the back of a pick-up truck and made the hour long drive to the town of Chuicaca. When we arrived to the salon - the whole place was packed! It was so awesome to see how many people came out to listen to the workshop. What was amazing was how the whole community came together to make this workshop possible. The town hall of this town, the health post, the community leaders as well as the mayors from the central part of town came together to make this all possible. I was telling the volunteers that helped me that this would be such an awesome site for a volunteer and the community really would love to have a volunteer. This would be a dream site for any volunteer - people willing to work with you, organized, having the support of the community - I could go on! So I plan on talking to my boss in the near future to see if they would be able to set up a new site in this town for the next group of Healthy Homes volunteers that will arrive a year from now.

We were able to divide the people into 4 groups where 2 PC volunteers gave the workshop. Once the workshops were over they were gracious enough to provide lunch for us as well as diplomas! They were all so thoughtful and so incredible generous. When I stood up to thank the community and my friends I almost cried. It was a great day :)

For the whole week - we were able to HIV/AIDS educate about 600 people!

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