As Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for Sacred Valley Health, it is always a pleasure to see the ways in which our program is growing, and also to recognize the ways in which we can use the data we collect to further improve. Since our first promotora (community health worker) training in October 2012, we have significantly…
Tag: Ollantaytambo
SVH/ Ayni Wasi Team Participates in Ollantaytambo’s Anniversary Parade
Most people celebrate birthdays as special occasions. In Peru, birthday celebrations extend to major civic entities. October 29th marked the 139th anniversary of the incorporation of Ollantaytambo (the town where Sacred Valley Health/ Ayni Wasi is headquartered). Much like any other birthday party, Ollantaytambo’s included all of its friends, namely the other communities within the…
Stewart bids farewell and the promotoras learn about nutrition
On Thursday, the Sacred Valley Health staff climbed into our driver Ruben’s van (called a combi here) and made the gorgeous trek up to the community of Patacancha, where we held a day of promotora training on the topic of nutrition. We took a winding route to Patacancha, since we needed to pick up several…
New Beginnings
Last Friday, SVH/Ayni Wasi staff jumped into two combis to go to the Chillca Posta for the first official training of our second group of promotoras (community health workers). Prior to heading to posta, one group went to pick up promotoras from the higher altitude communities of Rayan, Soccma, Marcuray, and Rumira. Another group went…
Phase 2 of the Promotora Program Kicks Off
Last Thursday, Sacred Valley Health welcomed eight new promotoras (community health workers) from seven new communities for a morning of orientation. These promotoras were elected by their communities in the last couple of months, and they worked with SVH staff to gather demographic and health data in their communities in July and August. Now they…
INTO THE VALLEY 