It’s our last week in Nicaragua and we are all so sad to leave.
We have become so invested in our projects over the past five weeks.
My project Crianza con Amor, is focused on parenting and childhood development.
The data that we collected will be used to create the baseline for this study on
childhood development in Nejapa. It will also be used to help create the
intervention, educational material for volunteer mothers. We work with
community members to collect data and create the materials so that it will
be specific and effective for this community. I’m happy that the framework
that AMOS uses, CBPR, allows interventions to be multifaceted and
continuous.
We have learned and grown so much here, it’s hard to know how to say goodbye.
But we lead our weekly devotion this week and our theme was gratitude.
This theme was important to use because we told the staff thank you for our
time here. Our activity was to write a thank you card to someone in your life.
At the end, we all presented our thank you cards to the staff to express our
gratitude. AMOS’s work reaches so far in communities, we were glad to
be apart of that for two months. But we know that the real impact comes
from communities that are empowered to change their own health.
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