A day with Plan

Yesterday was the greatest day so far in Bolivia. 07.30 a big car came outside our hotel and picked us up. Inside the car sat to guys, Israel and Hans (our tolk). They had planned a great day for us to see what kind of work Plan is doing. We had asked to take a look in their health program, so Israel that is a doctor showed us around in one of the communities Plan works in.

First we spent an hour at a mother and child meeting. Here mothers learned how to feed their children, see the signes if the child is sick and how to communicate with the child. They also learned how to see the signes if something was wrong in their pregnancy. One of the problems in Bolivia is the hygiene. When children gets sick their parents take them to a healer or a witch for getting rid of the evil spirit. Plan tries to learn the families to take their children to a doctor to get some medicine, that way the child will have a chance to survive.

After this we went to two families for a check up on their children. The volunter has to do this in each family that has a child under 5 years old every month. That way the parents will learn how to understand if something is wrong with their child. Everything was so interesting and we learned a lot.

We spent the whole day with them, and it was the best day ever. We are so greatful for getting this opportunity and are so amazed by the work this organisasion do. The greatest thanks to Israel and Hans.