Community Empowerment - Naibowa - Kamuli
Visit by Ida Bazonoona on 2018-01-31
- Report ID
- 720
- Created by
- Ida Bazonoona
- Created date
- 2018-02-01 11:33:04 UTC
- Modified by
- Ben West
- Modified date
- 2018-02-09 20:41:45 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:22-18:37 (8 h 15 m)
- Village Time
- 12:16-16:30 (4 h 14 m)
- Travel Time
- 4 h 1 m
Current State
- Participation Rating
- 2
- Success
- Unknown
- Village Critical Needs
- They need stoves and water.
- Village Action Steps
- Continue meeting weekly.
- Staff Action Steps
- Prepare lessons for the day.
- Sanitation Hygiene Committee
- yes
- Water Users Committee
- yes
- Other Class Notes
-
- Community Ownership
- unknown
- Ownership Story
-
- Three Stone Fires
- yes
- Access to Clean Water
- no
- Open Defecation
- no
- Water Access Explain
- Their source of water is salty.
- Prevent Ownership
- Unknown
- Allow Ownership
- Unknown
- Village Notes
- None
Community Empowerment Lessons
- Men Attendees
- 21
- Women Attendees
- 36
- Staff Attendees
- Ida Bazonona
- Government Attendees
- LC1
- Visitor Attendees
- None
- Total Attendance
- 57
- Lesson Taught
- Health lesson 5: Teeth Cleaning
- Notes
- Ida started with a question if anyone knew the reason as to why teeth cleaning is necessary.
Some people said to prevent tooth decay and others said it's not necessary. One old man said that smoking is the only medication for tooth infection.
Ida told them the two basic reasons why cleaning teeth is necessary.
1. To prevent diseases in the rest of the body like heart disease, dementia and complications of diabetes.
2. To prevent tooth loss
The mouth is an area that's completely different from the entire body,and it takes quite a beating from the food we eat and the talking we do all day long.
And this unique environment requires special care.
Teeth cleaning remove the buildup of plaque and tartar. This buildup is for the most part natural-kind of like how a boat picks up barnacles just by being in the lake.
But too much buildup leads to gum diseases.
Gum disease is when your body's immune system is responding to this tartar buildup with inflamed and bleeding gums. The immune system response is successful at killing off invaders like infection and flu viruses,but at a cost; like a war.there are innocent bystanders that get slaughtered, As gum disease progresses,so does the destruction to your bone and tissues in your mouth.
That's why preventing gum disease reduces risk of stroke,heart disease and dementia.
At a certain stage, this damage is irreversible, so prevention is the best way to maintain overall health and keep beautiful teeth for a life time and teeth cleanings are critical piece of this prevention.
- Next Visit
- - Purpose:
- Program Success
- Program Critical Needs
- Program Ownership
- Other Program Observations
- Program Expected Of Village
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- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit