Kosovo Health Education

Yesterday was Leann and my first time teaching our health education presentations at the Kosovo center. We were supposed to use a projector in order for the kids to view a powerpoint, but for some reason it was not working properly so we had to come up with a lot of things off the top of our heads.

Yesterday we saw two different groups, Pre-School through class 3 and then class 4-5. They were all so great and loved seeing the pictures on Leann's laptop. Eventually though her battery ran out of power and we could not charge it because the center was out of electricity! Oh well! Makes things interesting, right? So yesterday we educated the kids on Personal and Oral Hygiene. We started out with a skit that compared one person with good hygiene and another with bad. I was the stinky person with cavities...haha! We also brought along our puppets. Do you remember those from when I showed pictures at Pangani? The kids really enjoyed them :)

I have to say that I am so thankful Leann is doing this with me. She is sooo creative and comes up with entertaining activities that keep the kids' attention! Like yesterday she modified the Barney "Clean Up" song to go along with personal hygiene and then today she had kids moving around acting out how fatty plaque clogs the arteries haha!

Today's agenda at Kosovo was to teach classes 4 and 5 about nutrition and non-communicable diseases. Most of them knew a lot about nutrition which was awesome and they participated well during that presentation. Oh and we finally got the projector to work and that helped out a lot! But when we got to the non-communicable diseases the projector quit working so we had to improvise and we also realized that a good amount of the information was over their heads. We are going to have to modify that presentation. We persevered though and taught them about heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and depression. I learned some too!

So tomorrow we are off to Joska again to try yet another time to teach the kids about nutrition. I am confident that it will work out though, so please pray for safe travel and a smooth presentation. Please also be praying that Mary and little David get back from the States safely. They should be arriving tonight around 8 p.m. and I know we are all ready for them to be home :) I pray that you all are doing well and enjoying life. Today is a gift!