Thursday

Catherine with the Community Health Workers

Thursday was our final day of teaching for Community Health Workers. We reviewed snakebites and spent some time on skits about good and bad relationships, including those between CHWs and clients. The "bad relationships" were hilarious.

Meanwhile, Catherine spent the morning working her magic on the pastors. Tough crowd, but they soon realized she had important tips for them and they warmed up. She trained the CHWs after lunch--by then everyone was exhausted but Charissa and I could hear the difference in their voices from the next room as we shared a cup of coffee. This training is really universal.

The pastors and Catherine

We had dinner with David and Solange--She prepared beef and chicken and lamb and meatballs and rice and potatoes and beans and cabbage--and I'm sure I forgot a few things. It was delightful to relax with them in their home.

And delightful to get back to the hotel early. The traffic in Dakar is much worse than it ever was--except for the year that they were replacing all the roads. There are still no traffic lights but we occasionally see gendarmes directing traffic--or just watching by the side of the roads.