Community Health Promoter

Hey everyone! So i have gotten some questions from people wondering exactly what I will be doing while in Peru and figured I'd share what my assignment packet said about my job details'

"Your specific responsibilities might include:
~Developing education and awareness campaigns with community partners to promote community health among residents.
~Training local health promoters and community leaders in nutrition, proper hygiene, and disease prevention.
~Teaching school children basic health, nutrition, and hygiene practices, such as the importance of hand-washing.
~Training mothers in the importance of a balanced diet, including higher levels of vitamin A, iron, iodine, and other micro-nutrients.
~Training mothers with infants to improve breastfeeding and weaning practices, so that children maintain more stable growth.
~Health community partners establish backyard and community gardens, and teaching them to prepare culturally acceptable foods rich in vitamins and minerals.
~Training community members how to construct and utilize latrines.
~Training community members how to construct and utilize improved cooking stoves, which produce far less smoke and utilize less wood.
~Helping local municipal government implement proper trash and waste disposal techniques.
~Training rural families in alternative income-generating activities (such as animal or handicraft production), so they can add new income to their households."

I will also have the opportunity to engage in secondary projects with my spare time such as coaching soccer, teaching math, or teaching English--pretty much anything that will help the community that I have some experience in.

I'm counting down to September and can't wait to return to Peru!!
Te amo,
-Jenny