Let's Talk about our Health

Report n°4 :

Dear donors, dear friends,

Last year, in June, we made  a fundraising appeal through "Global Giving" for our project Let’s talk about our health.Today, we are happy to inform you about our progress.

Our team (professionals and volunteers) produced 14 videos and 6 films focused on female health and the right to health care for every woman :

- female health is a priority

- woman and young girls should receive support throughout their lives in making health choices

- public education, awareness-raising on how to improve female health.

After producing the videos, we started training specialists for our project Let’s talk about our health.

From november 2017 to january 2018 : the project manager, a midwife and a biologist, organized 4 trainings for 42 specialists, including 4 NGO members in the health field, 6 urban physicians, 5 rural physicians and several school nurses.

In January, we organized a round table comprised of 27 specialists

( journalists, physicians, teachers, social workers, school psychologists, lawyers and NGO members ) :

we presented the project, the first results and  the points to be strengthened. We showed videos  and explained how to use them in public presentations.

Our specialists met pupils in 4 schools and organized 2 meetings with students : pupils and students recognized themselves in the scenes of the videos  and took part in the discussions with interest.

Some of them felt uncomfortable when looking at videos showing self-palpation to prevent breast cancer or plastic therapeutic surgery, but they were relieved to see that other people had similar problems and asked themselves the same questions.

Today we are negotiating withthe Institute of Adult Continuing Education  so that our project might involve its students ( 500 teachers and 100 school nurses).

Thank you for your help ! Thanks to you,  we were able to start this program and we'll pursue it, training  new specialists who will expand the awareness of hundreds of persons  and help them take care of their health. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/lets-talk-about-our-health/

List of films (may be sent on request)

N°1 Health is a treasury for human beings

N°2 Reproductive health and reproductive rights

N°3 Domestic violence - is this myth or reality ?

N°4 “Labour” stereotypes 

N°5 "I don't want to go to school, I want to get married. The "pros and cons" or "for" and "against" early marriage

N°6 Vigilance concerning cancer

List of videos (may be sent on request)

1 - Cyber bullying

2 - Infertility

3 - Plastic surgery

4 -  What does it take for a little girl to be happy ?

5 - Boys don't know what "andrologist " means

6 - The security of Internet networks

7 - Bullying

8 - Gynecological presentation 1 (by a gynecologist)

9 - Gynecological presentation 2 (by a gynecologist)

10 - Internet addiction (by a psychologist)

11 - Skin diseases

12 - Self-palpation of the breast

13 - Self-medication

14 - Health issues specific to women before marriage

Dear donors, dear friends,

It has been a while since we last gave you un update about our project Let’s talk about our health. Today we are very happy to inform you about progress made, thanks to you and your donation.

 We realized five short videos 2 to 3 minutes long about how we approach female health problems and which we show during the meetings. These videos start the discussion and make the participants react.

 In one video, Aliet speaks with her neighbours and confides in them that she is worried about the health of her daughter who has abdominal pains and that she is going to take her for a consultation at a gynaecologist. Afterwards one of the neighbours reacts by saying: “her daughter is not married, why should she have female pains? I wanted to present her to my son but now I shall not do that because I do not need a sick person !”

 After viewing the video the participants of the meeting are always asked the same question: What do you think of this movie?

 The comments vary: certain stereotypes come back but generally the discussion always develops in an interesting way. The aim is to show why it is important that the girl speaks to her mother and that the mother gets an appointment for her daughter at a gynaecologist.

 The specialists who are present at the meeting explain the risks and the consequences of late medical consultations. Our experience shows that when people who have similar problems and ask themselves the same questions it is easier for them to speak about it together and to find solutions.

 We have already organized 3 meetings with girls and women and the results of these meetings are encouraging:

-  14 out of 45 girls or women have asked for the help,

-  30 women discovered self-palpation as a means to examine their breasts and have learnt who to practise it,

-  During a meeting, cysts were discovered in two women, who then went to see a doctor,

-  24 of the women declared that they would practise self-palpation regularly and would speak about it to their daughters,

-  4 girls understood that they had irregular menstrual cycles and that they had to speak about it to their mother and consult a doctor.

Dear friends

we sincerely thank you your support in 2017. We still need your help to pursue our program Let’s talk about our health in 2018 to make hundreds of persons aware and help them take care of their health.

We count on you and on your friends !

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