David Aday's Blog

MANOS is making significant strides in articulating a vision, a mission, and a method.

SOMOS students continue work in Paraiso and on campus; SHC students continue background research for Cuje; local project being considered.

Thinking about the work we did in Nicaragua this week, the students offer their views and recollections.

We have been interested in the work of INPRHU since we first came to Nicaragua.

A face that alternately implores and defends.

Soyoung Hwang ('11, 1st year; aka !Zoing! - which I think means "always healthy" or "never sick" in Korean, but maybe not) has emerged as a symbol of endurance and determination.

We're back.

The "first team" has assembled and we're waiting to board Taca Airlines.

Students for Healthy Communities (SHC) will leave on Saturday for the third annual community health project in Cuje District, Nicaragua.

We were scolded today. It was inevitable.

The rewards of good work are beginning to manifest: "travelers' disease," suspicious rashes, sunburn, and fatigue.

We have completed interviews in nearly half of the homes in Esfuerzo, the most remote of the neighborhoods of Paraiso.

The bus did come – at 9:30. We had the clinic set up and operating by 10:30. By 6pm, we had seen and given medicine to 150 residents of Paraiso.

After three years of careful field research, done a week at a time in the winter and over six to 10 weeks in the summers, we held our first community meeting yesterday.

Sustainability. It's the last word in the name of our project: Student Organization for Medical Outreach and Sustainability.

Many students are pursuing self-designed majors in community or public health. I consider possible interpretations of this trend from my perspective as an "advisor"