Teaching Basic Hygiene

During the morning on Saturday, while the medical tests and exams were happening, the team also had various activities for those women and children waiting their turn. In this photo Pam and Melanie are teaching how to properly brush teeth, using hand puppets. Toothbrushes and toothpaste were distributed to take home. They also taught handwashing and gave out bars of soap to take home. A fun craft was decorating a photo frame. We took digital photos of everyone present, printed out the photos on a printer we brought from the Nairobi HEART office, and gave these framed photos to each person to take home. Most of these people had never seen a photo of themselves. The lady on the left is Dalina; she was our interpreter for the craft area. Kiswahili is the major language spoken by these women and children--though many had the basics of English.