CDRS Iodine Awareness Health Fair
We seem to have gained a bit of momentum in the community. The village students, the lady health workers and the shopkeepers, are all uniting in the iodine cause.
Last night we met with some shopkeepers and they informed us that they had sent back a truckload of salt after they tested the iodine content and found it nonexistent.
Today's health fair in Chikar went very well thanks to the efforts of many. There were three excellent speeches made by high school girls informing the audience of about 175 people about the necessities of iodine. Dr. Tihara, the medical officer responsible for nutrition this in this district, came to the fair and gave a speech. It sounded excellent although our Urdu is a bit rusty. We also gave speeches which were translated by Zubair. We gave out iodine test kits and people seem motivated to use them.
This afternoon we are going back to the waterfalls and then we’ll start to get ourselves ready for the upcoming 3 day wedding festivities of Dr. Arshid, the medical director here. We think that being gori women, we will be able to shuttle back and forth a bit between the men and women's parties. We feel very fortunate and privileged to be included in the activities.
We seem to have gained a bit of momentum in the community. The village students, the lady health workers and the shopkeepers, are all uniting in the iodine cause.
Last night we met with some shopkeepers and they informed us that they had sent back a truckload of salt after they tested the iodine content and found it nonexistent.
Today's health fair in Chikar went very well thanks to the efforts of many. There were three excellent speeches made by high school girls informing the audience of about 175 people about the necessities of iodine. Dr. Tihara, the medical officer responsible for nutrition this in this district, came to the fair and gave a speech. It sounded excellent although our Urdu is a bit rusty. We also gave speeches which were translated by Zubair. We gave out iodine test kits and people seem motivated to use them.
This afternoon we are going back to the waterfalls and then we’ll start to get ourselves ready for the upcoming 3 day wedding festivities of Dr. Arshid, the medical director here. We think that being gori women, we will be able to shuttle back and forth a bit between the men and women's parties. We feel very fortunate and privileged to be included in the activities.
