Before I go on with my journal pages on Ethiopia I feel I owe you all more of an explanation.
The plan for this trip was different than most trips for the Medic program.
The Shannons invited us to Ethiopia because they run a Daycare in the slums of Addis.
They have educated backgrounds in many areas but nothing medical.
With 60 or so children in their care daily and many mothers that also interact daily with them they felt it might be golden to learn some basic medical protocols.
Knowing when it is time to be worried about a child and when it is better to trust the child to recover naturally.
So our main purpose in going was to teach the Shannon family and also do some training with a daycare staff and some teachings with the Day Care mothers.
The main ministry of the medic program is usually house to house visits in a community.
This gives us a very real way of connecting with people in these communities and countries.
Due to local stigmas and such we were not able to do these visits leaving us a bit more downtime.
Hopefully this will help you understand why this trip was so different than Ecuador, and why I came back with different thoughts than any other trip.
1 comment:
interesting. can't wait to read more, love.
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