visitas domiciliarias y capacitaciones sobre viviendas saludables

The Improved Kitchen Project is progressing along. We have now finished all of our health workshops for the mothers. Every weekend, mothers learned about ways to improve the health of their families and homes, including nutrition, consumption of unconatminated water, handwashing, breastfeeding, diarrhea, respiratory infections, spread of sickness, hygiene, and how to use, clean, and maintain the new stove model. Attendance to the workshops was required in order to receive materials for a stove. During the health workshops, I gave mothers various materials, such as a healthy cookbook, a pitcher to store boiled water, and a bucket, towel, and tub for handwashing to improve the health of their families. The next step of our project included visiting the homes of the 51 mothers in the project. I visited each home with one of my health promoters to evaluate the health habits of the families. We were checking to see that the families have changed their habits and could tell us about and demonstrate what they had learned in the health workshops. For those families who didn’t “pass” the home visit, I will be doing follow-up visits to check that their families are practicing healthy habits before they can receive materials for building the stove.