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and here is my quarterly report

Peace Corps Mauritania
Community Health/Water and Sanitation
Quarterly Report

PCV name: Molly M Reporting period: October – December 2004
Site: Kankossa Region: Assaba
Date Received By APCD (to be filled by APCD): _____________________________

Activities: Please list activities according to the project plan goals and objectives. For each activity carried out, D.C. must know how many individuals were assisted, service providers trained, organizations strengthened, and communities assisted.

Goal 1:
1). Collaborate with the DRPSS in order to achieve a positive attitude change in communities as it relates to preventative health.

Objective 1:
By 2004, 110 Volunteers will train 550 Counterparts in appropriate health education topics in 9 target-regions that will result in 33% of these Counterparts acquiring and helping to disseminate the new knowledge.

Activity #1:
Number of individuals assisted: M (will be) 3 F (will be) 6
Number of service providers trained: same as above
Please list their name(s)and title(s) (ex: Fati Sow-Relais, Issa Ba-teacher):
Limam – médecin-chef
Taleb ould Mahmoud – infirmier
Koumba Demba – infirmière
Penda Sy – infirmière
Mounina mint Mohammed Lemine – sage-femme
Minettou mint Oudar – infirmière
Tahyé mint Abdoul – infirmière
Zeinabou Dia – infirmière
Habib - pharmacien

Number of organizations strengthened: 1
Please name these organizations: Kankossa hospital

Number of communities assisted: 1

Describe activity and how it contributed to the project plan goal:

This is a continuing project dealing with the problem of poorly disposed sharps and medical waste. After speaking with Amber Surrency of UNICEF, I have decided to change the focus of this project; instead of simply performing a sensibilization, I am currently looking at incinerator plans. My goal is to attain funding from UNICEF for the incinerator. I will also prepare a sensibilization, with the aid of my homologue Koumba Demba, which will include topics such as safe sharps disposal, definition of medical waste, and AIDS education.

Follow up actions planned:

See above

Activity #2:
Number of individuals assisted: M 150 F 150 B 170 G 170 (B&G=under 18yrs.)
Number of service providers trained: M 2
Please list their name(s)and title(s) (ex: Fati Sow-Relais, Issa Ba-teacher):

Diallo Hammadou - World Vision regional director
Ali ould Messoud - ersatz teacher and paid volunteer

Number of organizations strengthened: 1
Please name these organizations: World Vision Mauritania

Number of communities assisted: 1

Describe activity and how it contributed to the project plan goal:

I assisted with the World Vision sponsored AIDS Day event in Kankossa. The event consisted of a soccer game, sensibilizations, and dramatic sketches. I provided and distributed AIDS ribbons, created ten informational posters, and gave advice about planning.

Follow up actions planned:

The event was poorly planned and poorly implemented, but it was a starting point for AIDS awareness activities in Kankossa. I plan to do follow-up activities with Sow, a SOS Pair Educateur member in Kankossa. We plan to teach AIDS information to high school students, with special emphasis on females.

Activity #3:
Number of individuals assisted: M 13 F 6
Number of service providers trained: same as above
Please list their name(s)and title(s) (ex: Fati Sow-Relais, Issa Ba-teacher):

Oumar ould D’Ahmed – SOS Pair Educateur formateur
Chiam Abdoulaye – SOS Pair Educateur formateur
Houssein Melick – SOS Pair Educateur formateur
And the other members of the SOS Pair Educateur trainer training
Number of organizations strengthened: 1
Please name these organizations: SOS Pair Educateurs

Number of communities assisted: 3

Describe activity and how it contributed to the project plan goal:

SOS Pair Educateurs, an NGO that gives training on AIDS, held a seminar to train AIDS instructors. The training lasted five days and addressed sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS information and prevention, and peer counseling and education techniques. I attended as an observer and offered information and advice to the SOS instructors.

Follow up actions planned:

I plan to continue AIDS education in Kankossa, as previously discussed.

Objective 2:
By 2004, 110 Volunteers and their Counterparts will carry out 880 health education sessions on appropriate topics which will target 8,800 people that will result in 1,056 Counterpart retaining the information and changing their behaviors.

Activity #1:
Number of individuals assisted: none, as of yet

Number of organizations strengthened: 1
Please name these organizations: Kankossa hospital

Number of communities assisted: 1

Describe activity and how it contributed to the project plan goal:

My primary project has been working toward the opening of Kankossa’s neglected CREN. As in the past, I have met with massive obstacles, mostly due to the ineptitude and apathy of the médecin-chef. This quarter, along with frequent visits to the médecin-chef in an attempt to garner his support, I met with World Vision to discuss a partnership. World Vision is planning to conduct a study of malnourished families in Kankossa. In exchange for my aid in this project, they have agreed to share their results. I will use these results to identify severely malnourished children.

Follow up actions planned:

I will assist World Vision in their malnutrition study and identify malnourished children. However, I plan to spend less time on this project. If there is no institutional support, at least within the hospital, it is a waste of my resources to continue to spend so much time on the CREN. In addition, I feel as though I am being taken for granted by the médecin-chef. In the future, I will not continue to help with his projects unless he puts an effort toward the projects as well. Instead, I will focus on projects outside the hospital.

Goal 2:
2). Insure with the DRASS the existence of a healthy environment and access to potable water for the target-communities

Objective 1:
By 2004, Volunteers and their Counterparts will set up or reinforce 22 hygiene and sanitation structures in 22 target communities that will result in 12 of these remaining operational.

Objective 2:
By 2004, Volunteers and their Counterparts will help to build 44 latrines and 60 septic tanks in 11 target communities, this will result in 4 communities continuing to build latrines and 20% of the 60 septic tanks being maintained and operational.

Objective 3:
By 2004, Volunteers and Counterparts will help train 22 masons in Dutch brick well techniques, build 22 Dutch brick wells and repair 20 wells in 9 target regions that will result in 5 masons acquiring the Dutch brick well construction technique and willing to promote it; 80% of the constructed wells will be maintained and used according to their initial purpose and 100% of the repaired wells will conform to their initial status.

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