As part of a project I began working on in the fall, my counterparts and I are moving into the schools to teach students in villages around Lezhe how they can protect themselves from illness. One of the biggest struggles I’ve had as a Volunteer has been how to conduct work with the limited resources I’m presented with. How am I supposed to tell kids to wash their hands when there’s no running water or soap in the school bathrooms? Well I don’t, but I tell them the importance of hand washing and how to do it (requesting the school to buy soap and bring water bottles), along with other useful lessons like covering your mouth when you sneeze and blowing your nose into a tissue. It’s not the material that I teach that’s hard, it’s how to teach it.
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