Feb- April Work Plan

I copied and pasted some of my quarterly report for you, because many of you are interested in the projects I'm planning on beginning. This is my official list of work-goals for the next 3 months:

Next quarter, I plan to…:
* …organize some basic water sanitation projects. I plan to do a focus group of potential community water improvement agents to discus problems and the possibility of forming a permanent water sanitation committee. Once problems are identified, we will hold a formation with the help of the Peace Corps water sanitation Program Assistant in order to begin work on a series of basic projects such as soak pits, wash areas, and top-well repairs. All this will be facilitated with the help of Kati’s Rotary Club and Dombila’s ASACO.
* …continue child nutrition education in Dombila and the surrounding villages. I plan to visit at least 6 villages to do baby weighings and ameliorated porridge demonstrations. I will continue to do nutrition counseling in conjunction with vaccinations, and search for new ways to encourage mothers to use CSCOM services in cases of malnutrition. I hope to also help the CSCOM organize an in-patient program where severely malnurished children and their mothers can stay with local host families for close monitoring and rehabilitation at the health center. Village visits will be executed alongside my homologue or a community relay. I plan to paint at least 4 murals on child weaning in our satellite villages, and implement understanding of the growth chart. I also hope to establish good relations with the relais of the villages I visit so that eventually, I can help them organize to do baby weighings and hearth nutrition programs on their own.
*... organized a women's heath committee that consists of one representative from each of the many women's associations throughout Dombilia. Interested women would be trained on one health or income development project each week so as to present to their women's association during weekly meetings.
*... continue various health lessons and animations with my homolouge, involving skits, songs and visual aids during vaccinations and prenatal counseltatinos.
* …begin a health education Sunday night radio show with my homolouge.
*… implement the World Art Exchange program in the local school.
* …to design an HIV/AIDS/STI educational event to be implemented in the following quarter. This would involve procuring such HIV/AIDS funds available until this coming March.

(Ambitious, but possible. Really, it depends on the committment of my community. And as you see, I have a lot of faith in my community. Let's hope I'm not mistaken! Mom sent me a bunch of Barak Obama pictures to hand out- the Africans are obsessed with him. It might be a good time to impliment "Yes we can!" Or as they say in Bambara: "An be se!")