2007
Summer Midwife Training Program conducted by Wendy Steiger
--- Images are provided by Carmen
Smyth
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Wendy
Steiger (member of Ventura Memorial Hospital of CA) and Corinne
Collins (Nurse/TAF Board Member) visited the ChaZhu Valley
Clinic in July 2007. During their stay, Wendy conducted a
midwife training session for eight women from eight different
villages. The program started on July 10th and ended on July
22, 2007. |
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July 10, Wendy started her training with Corinne's assistance.
Dolkar Tso helped with translation. All students are from
18 to 40 years old. |
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Wendy
is showing her program graphically on paper. All the students
are excited to see many different images. |
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is much easier to show the pictures to explain certain conditions
or situations. Students are enthusiastically participating
the training course. |
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Karmo
Yantsum, Lhamo Tso and YangChen Dolma are learning about the
position of a baby in the mom's womb. |
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are practicing by demonstrating the delivery of a baby. |
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Students
are continuing to practice delivering a baby... |
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two weeks training, all the students successfully completed
their training. At the end of the session, Wendy proudly presented
completion certificates to every student. Wendy feels that
all eight students should be able to assist delivering babies
in their own village. Yet, she highly recommends that they
need to bring pregnant women to the ChaZhu Valley Clinic to
deliver their babies in case of an emergency. |
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On
August 15, 2007. Pemo, one of the trained students, successfully
delivered a healthy baby in the mother's clay house. The
family and the community are very thankful for Wendy Steiger's
midwife training program, as it has been showing great results
in the villages.
Thank
you!
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