Today Jade and Tiffany did a fun food activity where they prepared Taiwanese food for the students. The stir fried tomato with eggs was made for over 500 students and was used to talk about the nutrients in different foods. Preparing the food required a lot of teamwork and help, but the students really enjoyed […]
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We started the weekend by going back to school. The head teacher of Chiputula Primary School invited us to their Saturday recreational activities. These Saturday activities are led by Anno’s Africa, an organization based in the United Kingdom that works in several African countries to provide visual and performing arts education to children who might
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Today, our group met at Xinzhuang Elementary School to classify the seeds we found at Xinzhuang Sports Park. Before we began today’s session, Teacher Lydia helped our team review the new vocabulary they learned at the park. Then, one of Xinzhuang’s teachers introduced the names of the seeds we collected. We helped our little friends
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Penny and Miku taught the second session of the nutrition class for standard six students today. Today’s topic was diabetes and hypertension, and the students learned the importance of sugar and salt intake within the recommended amount by the World Health Organization. The students participated in the sugar activity where they matched the amount of
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Today, we went on our first summer camp field trip! Our team walked over to the Xinzhuang Sports Park, where our 4 groups of campers (the Guava Group, Sweet Potato Leaf Squad, Passion Fruit Pals, and Pineapple Posse) traveled to 4 different stations to search for seeds. At each station, our station leaders helped teach
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Today, we (April and Rena) returned to Chiputula Primary School for our second day of nutrition classes. Yesterday was a great introduction to teaching, and we were excited to see some of the other standard 7 classes. For our first activity, we taught our students about diabetes and the effects of eating too much sugar.
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May and I have introduced some knowledge about “Health Equity” to our little friends. Surprisingly, the kids can grasp all the information very quickly, albeit the topic’s abstract nature! With tremendous support from Linh and other group leaders, we have tried our best to deliver as simple as possible necessary concepts about how and where
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We headed over to Chiputula Elementary at 8:00 to start teaching. Tiffany and Jade taught three Standard 5 (5th grade) classes in the morning and four classes in the afternoon. Each class was 30-35 minutes and they reviewed the different food groups (fruits, vegetables, fats and oils, food from animals, legumes and nuts and staples)
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It was our second day of the 2022 SHANTU bilingual summer camp at Xinzhuang Elementary School. Our day started with the opening ceremony of our summer camp. During the ceremony, Teacher Bri introduced 4 group names —— Guava Group、Sweet Potato Leaf Squad、Passion Fruit Pals、Pineapple Posse——and the group chant for each group. We learned the chants
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Tiffany and Penny participated in the District Health Office (DHO)’s Emergency Operation Center (EOC) meeting in the morning and the polio campaign preparation in the afternoon. We visited nine health centers for the polio campaign preparation and brought fuel, reports, micro plan, and payment for the social mobilizers who are in charge of the polio
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