CHE = Community Health Evangelism

We are very blessed to have CHE trainers nearby the KLC who are happy to work with our Barefoot Doctor students each year.  CHE stands for Community Health Evangelism, and the facilitators help our students learn more effective ways to work with the villages to get a lot of good things done.

David Crist has been helping us for several years at the Barefoot Doctors school, but this year he is handing off the baton to a young couple named Eric and Shannon Wiederholt.  The Wiederholts are from Georgia (and before that, Tennessee) and have been working in Chiang Mai for a few years, the last two with CHE.

All three of these people are helping us all week, and they are doing an excellent job.  From the outset they involved the students in the learning process, and the students are eating it up!

Often they set up the next lesson with a role play, and the students really like taking turns at these role plays.  All of them get opportunities then to gather in small groups to explore answers and solutions, then various people get up to make reports on what their group discovered.

The participation is contagious and provides an excellent environment for learning.  Here you see the 12 Core Values of CHE. Most of them are self-explanatory but if you want to learn more go here:   https://www.chenetwork.org/what.php

Jung Dangshing took the opportunity to share a personal story of how using the CHE Core Values really makes a difference. Recently, FLC had a very successful water project in partnership with a village in Thailand.  Previous water projects were funded entirely from the outside and included hired workers or volunteers outside the village, but this most recent time the project included the villagers from start to finish.  The end result was much better, and the relationships built will carry on into future work together with that village. Jung says, "CHE really works!"