October 9, 2008
Today was our Ministry of Health meeting. All the Tiznit Health PCVs get together every three months at the Ministry of Health office in Tiznit to talk about progress, issues, and plans for future work.
There was a Ministry of Education delegue there this time, and he talked about the importance of going to schools to do formal health education with the kids. Because the Ministry of Ed was at this meeting and is stressing this as a project we need to do… At our July meeting, the delegue had been there to talk to us about working in the schools. Every three months we’ll turn in a lesson plan of what we plan on teaching until the next SIAAP (that's the regional branch of the Ministry) meeting.
The two schools in my site include a madrasa (primary school) and lycee (secondary school). Both are fairly large, with a few hundred kids at each. As soon as the mudir (principle) at each school receives a letter of permission from the Ministry, we can begin our health lessons. There has to be official authorization for us to be in the schools in order to teach. This is actually different in different regions in Morocco, so this is the process for Tiznit and some other regions but not all of them.
From here on out, we’ll be turning in reports of our activities at each meeting. These will include all our health lessons in the schools, vaccination drives we help out with, and anything we do that involves health education.
Today was our Ministry of Health meeting. All the Tiznit Health PCVs get together every three months at the Ministry of Health office in Tiznit to talk about progress, issues, and plans for future work.
There was a Ministry of Education delegue there this time, and he talked about the importance of going to schools to do formal health education with the kids. Because the Ministry of Ed was at this meeting and is stressing this as a project we need to do… At our July meeting, the delegue had been there to talk to us about working in the schools. Every three months we’ll turn in a lesson plan of what we plan on teaching until the next SIAAP (that's the regional branch of the Ministry) meeting.
The two schools in my site include a madrasa (primary school) and lycee (secondary school). Both are fairly large, with a few hundred kids at each. As soon as the mudir (principle) at each school receives a letter of permission from the Ministry, we can begin our health lessons. There has to be official authorization for us to be in the schools in order to teach. This is actually different in different regions in Morocco, so this is the process for Tiznit and some other regions but not all of them.
From here on out, we’ll be turning in reports of our activities at each meeting. These will include all our health lessons in the schools, vaccination drives we help out with, and anything we do that involves health education.
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