End of July and Camp GLOW.

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August 10th 2009

Published: August 10th 2009

So, for the last week my health group and I have been holding our annual Camp GLOW. This is a camp for secondary school girls implemented by Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide. But before that I kept myself busy. I came back from holiday to the college and spent about 2 weeks teaching Medical-Surgical Nursing and budgeting with the college staff for some sort of Strategic Plan that will be conduc... Read Full Entry

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Cathy is teaching the importance of Natural Medicine like we learned at our ANAMED (Action for Natural Medicine) training a few months ago (refer to earlier blogs). She is using a diagram to compare Western and Traditional Medicine...

Food Diversity

Annie and Judy are teaching the girls how to cook nutrient-rich mpala (porridge)

Web of Life

Tessa is demonstrating the web of life concept that everything is related in some way or another.

Environment Education

DISCO

11th August 2009

Mary Lynn
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MY BRAVE GAL!!!
To the dentist? The dentist chair where I travelled (but did not use) was a lawn chair. The disinfectants were in mason jars. Hmmmm....Maybe just bootlegging in disguise.

12th August 2009

krstnhsy
kristen hosey

Haha, I was totally expecting something similar. I think EVERY other dentist's office WOULD have that sort of set up...of course, you have to remind them about the disinfectant! haha.

19th August 2010

Dixie
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Malawi GLOW
Thank you for sharing! My niece is in the Peace Corp and just completed 2010 Malawii GlOW program (80 girls), I'm interested in hearing more about the program so I'm glad I found your site!

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