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Returning to Laos in March to build on our work!

IMG_0739The new Yale midwifery students have been selected.  Our tickets have been purchased.  We know what our objectives are:

1.  Training in Clean Birth Kits and WHO’s Essentials of Newborn Care.

2.  Get feedback from nurses.  How is program going? Changes? What do they need that we can give. (New training and items other than kits, babies, bag/mask)

3.  On-site assessment of clinics.  What they have and need.

4.  Feedback from ACD about the program and future plans.

5.  Meet with Provincial Health to see about their ideas for expansion of our training.

6.  Visit Champasak College of Health Services.  Learn about nursing and midwifery programs.

We met this week and are so thrilled to return and build on what we have done in July!

Cele Jevitt, the leader of the Yale group, has suggested additional training topics in response to the nurses’ questions during our July training.  These include: Hemorrhage, breastfeeding, and Breech.

It should be a wonderful training and its a very tangible goal for our upcoming crowd funding.  We are working to raise $10,000 in 3 weeks!!

 

 

October Monitoring & Evaluation Training

October2014METrainingKelley Khamphouxay, CleanBirth.org’s M&E Advisor, has just returned from a successful trip to Salavan for a Monitoring Meeting with our Lao partner, Our Village Association of Community Development.

The training was attended by: Dr Nong, Ms Noy, Ms Nouan, Mr Chiew and Mr Atoy.

The group, led by Kelley:

  • Reviewed the 2014-2015 Cleanbirth Monitoring plan
  • Identified of the health centers OVACD has the capacity to work with in-depth (and conduct qualitative monitoring)
  • Identified villages where OVACD has the capacity to work closely with mothers & TBAs directly
  • Full understanding of the scope, details, and manpower required to implement the 2014-2015 Monitoring Plan
  • Translated of 4 Nurses Monitoring Interviews (Lao-English) that had been conducted by field staff
  • Revision of the Nurses and Mothers Monitoring Interviews form and a new Excel file to document and submit Nurse and Mother Monitoring Interviews
  • Discussed new birth kit components (extra clamp, extra sheet, gloves) and understand that they will add supplemental packs to update birth kits already in Salavan to the new standard.  Feedback was given about the picture sheet and revision will be made.
  • Village Volunteer/TBA discussion: role of government, feasibility of program.

Kelley reports that OVACD says that kits are being used by clinics and mothers and that the OVACD team is enthusiastic about the work.  The implementation of the log frame created by CleanBirth.org and OVACD and accompanying monitoring documents has clarified CleanBirth.org’s expectations for OVACD and streamlined data collection processes.

 

 

 

 

 

Education is the key

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One take away from working with nurses and community health workers in Laos, is that most want more information.  They want to learn and do their jobs better.

For example, when an old woman who had been a lay midwife for decades learned about the risks of applying dirt to the cord, she said “We didn’t know that.  We will change.”

Education is such a powerful tool to bringing about lasting change.

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