Monday and Tuesday I was in charge of setting up a training conference for all of the Happy Child International Volunteers. We got a couple of guest speakers, and a bunch of us from the help team spoke. We covered counseling, children's rights, report writing, child development, and a bunch of other stuff. I taught for about an hour and a half on child development. It was so cool! This is like my future profession, so I actually got to teach it in a real setting! It reminded me of how much I love development. The rest of it was... a little different than i had planned it to be. Not all the speakers decided to speak on what they were supposed to... and the police officer ended up making us pay her. (talk about government corruption).
Today we went out into Eastern Uganda to do some jigger outreach. Basically... jiggers are little fleas that burrow into people's skin. Out in Eastern Uganda, people are poor enough to only own one pair of ripped clothing, and no shoes, so a lot of people have jiggers in their feet. We didn't take this picture, but this is basically what they look like:
Basically what they did (we went to help them... but they didnt let us, which was a bummer) was to take a knife, scrape off all the outside skin off the feet, and then pull off the skin down to the raw flesh on the areas of the jiggers, and then spread on some medicine mixed in with vaseline. The jiggers are killed, and they eventually will come out as the new layers of skin grow in. kinda nasty, but really interesting stuff.
Tomorrow, two of our friends, Martin & Camera are getting married! We all got invited, and all the girls got dresses made for the occasion. They all look kinda weird, but it'll be fun!
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