CHE Training Finishes Up

The students' first week of CHE training is over.  The facilitators, David Crist and Eric and Shannon Wiederholt, are very pleased with the participation level all week long.

Morning and afternoon every day the students stayed engaged in the learning process.  They spent Monday through Wednesday learning how CHE works and what it's 12 Core Values are.  

Then on Thursday and Friday the students got to teach 10 lessons in groups of two.  They used the CHE method to teach one-hour lessons on Nutrition, Clean Water, Hygiene, Diarrhea and many other topics.

On Thursday afternoon Dr. Bjorn Nilson, our Medical Director, showed up.  He was introduced to everyone and then spent the next couple of hours observing the CHE training.  He was also given the answers to the questionnaires the students had filled out so that he could fine-tune the lesson plans for Monday and beyond.

On Friday afternoon, CHE finished up with a brief ceremony in which every student received a certificate for completing this part of their training. The CHE instructors will return again in years 2 and 3 for further community health and development training. We are grateful for the many things they taught our students last week.