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Newsletter, Winter, (December, 2003)
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Service, Community Health and Development
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Parenting Classes
"Mommy, please keep taking that class. You don’t yell at me or hit me when
you go." Parents are learning how to give their children love, support and
proper discipline to raise them to face the challenges of a new world of
drugs and gangs on the border that they never experienced as children.
Nurse Martha’s parenting classes touched the lives of 40 families last
school year, so much so that more than 120 of their neighbors have entered
the classes for this year. Martha took a special 18 month course to learn to
give these classes. She teaches with large drawings, examples, role playing
as well as a lot of straight talk about what builds up children and what
tears them down. They meet in school rooms sometimes (though it’s a rare
school that has an extra room to spare), private homes, the dining halls of
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"Escuela para Padres" parenting class in the
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Sex education to sixth graders, self
esteem, anti-drug and alcohol abuse, taught by Nurse Martha went over so
well in La Planicie, that the Altiplano elementary school requested it last
year, and now this year she will be teaching it in three schools. Martha
emphasizes self esteem especially in the girls, to show them that they are
the ones with a say about their future, and that they make the right choices
to do something with their lives. |
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Hygiene classes: The past
several years nurse Martha has taught basic hygiene in different elementary,
and then kindergarten schools in poor neighborhoods of Tijuana. This past
school year she kept working in two elementary schools of the year before
and expanded to the school of a new pioneer neighborhood, up in the hills of
the Altiplano neighborhood in eastern Tijuana. From these classes she
invites the parents to a meeting to encourage them to take parenting
classes. Service and Evangelism:
While the Health Program is non-sectarian to be able to reach
all the people in need, Nurse Martha shares the Gospel informally with
people she meets and works with, praying with them, leading them to Christ
and forming Bible study groups and encouraging them to go to church. |
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NEEDED: makings of hygiene
kits for Nurse Martha’s classes: towel, wash cloth, bar soap, comb,
shampoo, tooth brush and tooth paste.
NEEDED: people to promote and sell self-help
hand embroidered t-shirts and hand crafts.
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More News at
www.PueblosHermanos.org
Community Health Center inaugurated
in La Planicie
Health Promotor Classes
in Altiplano helps taco stand
Cooking classes- using texturized soy protein
and making your family think it’s really meat
Craft classes and craft sales
Hand-embroidered t-shirts made by church women.
Vaccination campaigns
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Visiting doctor and health screening:
Dr. Suzanne White of Los Banos, CA has come at the end of two school
years now together with the St. Andrews PC mission team from Pleasant Hill,
CA, to do a complete health screening check up of all the first and sixth
graders of the La Planicie and Altiplano elementary schools. The idea is to
catch those just entering the school system who may have health problems and
those who are leaving the system. Nurse Martha talks with the parents of
children in whom particular problems are identified (e.g. diabetes), helps
them get more testing if necessary and treatment.
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Dr. White & a student pose for the
camera. |
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