Today, I went to Rubira to work in the clinic there for KIHEFO’s
monthly outreach. I got to shadow some of the medical professionals and see
patients. In the afternoon, I got to go back to the primary school in Rubira to
teach their sixth graders about the different food groups. During the year, I
volunteer for the University of Michigan Health System as a Health Ambassador
for Project Healthy Schools (you can see their website here:
http://www.projecthealthyschools.org/).
For 10 weeks, I get to teach sixth grade students
about healthy habits and how to eat well. Lesson three is the “MyPlate” lesson,
where we talk about the important food groups and how to make a healthy plate. The
other public health student, two of the medical students and I planned the
lesson and gave it just like the project healthy schools lesson I give the
sixth graders in Ann Arbor. It was amazing to see how the same simple lesson
could be used for two vastly different groups of children halfway around the
world from each other. Below are some pictures.
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| Me at the clinic in Rubira |
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| MyPlate Lesson |
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| The P6 and P7 (6th graders) at Rubira Primary School |
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