día internacional de la mujer

This Sunday, we celebrated Internacional Women’s Day. I saw this as a great chance to educate the people about domestic violence and women’s rights. Domestic violence is a huge problem in Julcán. Of the 100 women I surveyed, I learned that 83 of them know someone who faces domestic violence.

One of the nurses and I got together to help some health promoters put on a skit about domestic violence. It went really well (a lot better than I had thought, actually. The health promoters could act pretty well!) and I think the audience at the health center got the message. This sort of thing obviously can’t change overnight, but we’re taking steps to get the message out there. Over my two years, working against domestic violence is definitely going to be one of my priorities.