One more time, I'd like to thank all of the people who helped to make this wish come true. We broke ground on the Maternity in Niasso and already the building is making its way up. The head of our ASACO (the governing board of the health center) and I have been working together on San market days to pick up the supplies for the maternity, dooni dooni (little, by little.)
We have purchased the wood and supplies to make a table for the newborn babies as before they were placed in sheets of fabric on the floor while the motther and matrone worked to finish the birth. We have also assembled a new shelf to house al of the malnutrition and birthing records for the mothers and children of the surrounding villages.
I have been away from my village helping with training these last few weeks, but I have been kept up to date with the progress the village is making to continue the project. I have been told the building itself was completed two weeks ago and the electrician has been out to price and install lights to be set up with our solar panel and car battery. This means mothers who go into labor between the hours of 6:30 pm and 5:30 am won't continue to do so in the dark or by wobbly flashlight.
As soon as the building has had sufficient time to settle, we will begin to move into it.. Already the relais (community health workers) have completed a series of trainings on health talks that they will give each week at the new maternity and each Sunday at our small village market.
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