Cholera

This afternoon we went to Dubreuil to do cholera prevention education with 10 more community leaders. We've now been able to train a total of 50 leaders, along with more than 300 people who just listened on the sidelines. Each of these leaders committed to going back to their village area, most of which are in the mountains, to share what they've learned. We gave out over 5000 cholera education (identification, treatment, etc.) posters, giving each leader a large packet so they could share them widely.

The past two days were very successful! It's been reassuring to know that what we planned, based on everything we'd been reading online and in the kolera advisories.

Up at dawn after sleeping well in the school building at Platon.
The trail downhill is very busy with people walking to market with heavy loads on their head and they aren't wearing "trail runner shoes", believe me! We also see flocks of sheep and a large oxen being led down every once in a while.
Coffee and granola bars for breakfast then Paul gathered his materials for the Rain on the Roof project. They were supposed to leave at 7:30 but will prob actually closer to 8:30.

Yesterday we had meetings at our house after church and worked on our computers while the "Sunday" electricity was working. Downtown Cayes was crowded with hundreds of people for Msr. Aleandre's funeral. The business community is quite concerned about insecurity in Cayes now. It was an early night since we'd all gotten up to go to 6 AM service at AUC. We have no idea why they changed the time but there weren't a lot of people on time!!

We stayed up way past midnight talking with Amoce and Jasmin, last night. With no elec it was easy to just keep sitting in the dark.

Today we still have no 'kouran' but we're used to that by now. Thank goodness for solar battery chargers.