Week three in Nicaragua has begun! After a crazy week in the rural community of San Onofre
and then a weekend at the beach, it’s back to the class room to reflect on what we have learned so far.
We reflected on what we learned about ourselves in our week in the community.
A theme that arose was openness and continuing to learn. Even though we had been trained in
community based participatory research and had been prepared for the community by the staff
here at AMOS, it was another thing to experience it. As we start our internship projects
next week, that will be important to keep in mind. This week we are thinking about CBPR
models in context of our specific projects. My project is about collecting baseline data for
childhood development markers (height, weight, linguistics etc.), examining child feeding practices, and
exploring maternal anxiety and depression in relation to those topics. Our data collection
team will be going to over 130 homes in Nejapa to collect our baseline data. Then we will
be planning education material on nutrition for mothers in Nicaragua. I’m excited that we have
learned so much in these past 3 week and we are ready to apply it in our internship projects!
and then a weekend at the beach, it’s back to the class room to reflect on what we have learned so far.
We reflected on what we learned about ourselves in our week in the community.
A theme that arose was openness and continuing to learn. Even though we had been trained in
community based participatory research and had been prepared for the community by the staff
here at AMOS, it was another thing to experience it. As we start our internship projects
next week, that will be important to keep in mind. This week we are thinking about CBPR
models in context of our specific projects. My project is about collecting baseline data for
childhood development markers (height, weight, linguistics etc.), examining child feeding practices, and
exploring maternal anxiety and depression in relation to those topics. Our data collection
team will be going to over 130 homes in Nejapa to collect our baseline data. Then we will
be planning education material on nutrition for mothers in Nicaragua. I’m excited that we have
learned so much in these past 3 week and we are ready to apply it in our internship projects!
Some fun activities for the week have been a birthday dinner for our friend Hannah, movie
night (we watched Us, very scary), and this weekend we are headed to Grenada! Chocolate
museum here we come!
night (we watched Us, very scary), and this weekend we are headed to Grenada! Chocolate
museum here we come!
cool!
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