Letter of Thanks

After Levy and I visited Pastor Roy in Malawi, Levy headed home to SA and I went to Zambia. Laura Eliason met me in Zambia so that we could facilitate a nurse training together.

There is a project called the Go Center that does mobile clinics in many areas. They partner with Hands at Work by providing a mobile clinic once a month in several of the areas that we have HBC projects. It works well for the volunteers to refer their patients to the clinic. The mobile clinic also uses the Hands at Work nurses to staff the clinics.

They asked us to provide training for their nurses. This was a wonderful opportunity for us since their nurses are also our nurses.

We provided training on HIV and recognizing and treating childhood illnesses. It has been documented that most children that come to a community clinic are complaining of a respiratory infection, diarrhea, maleria, malnutrition or an ear infection. These illnesses have also been identified by the WHO as the leading causes of death in children under five. We facilitated discussions to help them get used to using the WHO tool called the IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses).

I would like to share with you the speech that the participants gave at the certificate ceremony following the course.

"On behalf of my fellow nurses and on my own behalf I would like to thank Jean Aimee and Laura, and Chreso management for granting us this opportunity of attending this seminar which was very educative indeed.

We learned a lot, revised a lot and shared a lot of experiences.

We really needed this seminar for revision, for learning new things, and for motivation.

You made it easy for us to learn from you because you were really simple, cheerful and very friendly.

There was no time at all when we found lessons boring.

We were always filled with laughter and eagerness to learn more.

We have discovered a lot of issues that we needed in the mobile clinics. - You helped us to discover them.

We have gained a lot of knowledge from you. – We hope you have learned a bit from us too.

We have nothing to thank you with apart from these small tokens to remember us by.

We will always remember this seminar.- We will always remember your goodness.

May the Good Lord go with you, guide you, and see you through all your endeavors.

Thank you.