VHW Course on Course

Everything is running smoothly at the VHW course. Yesterday the topic was malnutrition and this photo shows students doing a group activity to sort the symptoms into different kinds of malnutrition.

In the afternoon the other teachers and I got the students playing a memory card game that I had prepared in 2018 for revising the respiratory and curculatory systems. Some of the students took a little while to get the concept of putting the cards back in the same place each time so they had a chance of finding the matching pairs, but they got there in the end, with much consultation of their notes. There were lots of laughs anyway, and maybe a bit of reinforcing of the teaching???

The inside of the classroom has been painted so apart from the bare concrete floor it looks quite tidy.

I found this cute little girl Miranda with her Mum Netty just outside the classroom - she was so smiley but very hard to get a good picture of as she didn't stop moving! She is Ps Roi's grandaughter.

Maurice brought some computers for the students to use if they want to, and installed them in purpose-made cupboards. I had to sweep out the termite dust first! The first shot shows the front of the unit, the next the back. It's no wonder that computer gear and other electronics don't last long up here. The conditions are very harsh. 

We need to have all the doors and windows open all the time to let the breeze through, so everything flapa about like crazy. All papers need to be anchored down, and any fabric used for screening soon comes unfastened.

It was Ben Taura's last day on Friday, he has got a job with UNICEF running their vaccination programme, so there was cake. 

He has been a great resource in getting the course underway this year and finding suitable presenters for the various modules. The delay with being able to start the course was frustrating (it was meant to be run last year), but God's timing is perfect and meant that we have such high caliber teachers available just at the right time. Kepoue is also going to a high responsibility position with the Nurse's School after this course, but was in between jobs at this time. Praise God!