International Woman's Day

What a success! The last few weeks I've been organizing a parade for international woman's day, and got the Centro involved by having a Jornada, bringing in extra doctors to give out free pap-smears and HIV/AIDS tests. I thought about 25-30 women would show up for the parade, however about 100 women came!

It was so much fun, we started in the Centro by the Municipality building and marched behind the pickup (with a loudspeaker) up to the Centro de Salud. I had some of my women from my women groups make posters last week and they carried those with them (see example below!)



It says, "Women too, have the right to be the Mayor of San Vicente!"

The other women just marched with us, then up at the centro de salud, we had little charlas about domestic violence, HIV/AIDS and the importance of pap-smears.

Ferney and I put on a skit (socio-drama) about domestic abuse and then we talked about breaking the cycle of violence.



(above, image of women listening to charla!).

In addition, Ferney is working on a mural at the Centro de Salud, with paint donated by a friend of Esther (another volunteer who lives in San Andres Xecul), so he's started working on that with some of his students.



Great day! - also haven't had time to post the photos on picasa, but that'll come later, to check the photos out now, Click HERE!