Visit to TARUD and taco night

As a part of the Health and Community Development in-service training, today we spent an afternoon with a local NGO called Trust Agency for Rural Development (TARUD). TARUD is a really impressive NGO that is doing great work in a wide range of areas, including health education using puppets and dramas (skits), a beauty school for out-of-school girls, and an awesome community garden project, among other community development activities. Here are some pictures from our visit (big thanks to Sunny and Rachelle for letting me steal their pictures after I forgot my camera again)


Puppet show about an unfaithful husband


Drama about malaria


Children watching the drama


Drama about girls education (this girl was playing an old man and she was awesome!)


Hair braiding demonstration

After our sessions were finished for the day, our group got together and cooked an amazing mexican dinner (and had a lot of fun doing it!). Here are some pictures:


Lots of cooks hard at work in the kitchen


Say cheeeese...


Toast


Sunny showing off the amazing apron she got at TARUD (they use them to teach girls about how their bodies work)


Onions and peppers, ground beef, beans


Pico de gallo, cheese, lettuce, tortillas (sort of), locally made chili sauce, beer, limes


Dessert - yogurt, fried cinnamon sugar deliciousness, red velvet cake


Birthday girl cutting her cake