This week, Ramatoulaye and I met and revised the curriculum, which I translated into French and corrected with Sophie’s help. Maddie sent the revised curriculum (in French) to Annie along with 12 pre and post assessment questions (also in French) a few days ago. On Friday, Maddie and Ramatoullaye had a meeting with possible peer educators, but there was some conflict because the peer educators are under the impression that they were getting paid throughout the year (something we never said) and that we needed twenty, rather than ten peer educators. After much discussion with Malick, Sophie, and Ramatoulaye, we have decided that it would be best to stick to our original plan to use ten highly motivated people to be peer educators. However, we do feel that some compensation is necessary to motivate them to attend training – so we were thinking of offering 1500CFA/per day per person rather than tee shirts to all peer educators who complete the five day program training. With this compensation will also be the firm understanding that this compensation is only for the five days of training, and that once the peer educators receive their certificate of completion, they will be working as voluntary GAIA peer educators disseminating information to groups of people at Sikoro clinic and other places to be determined.
Malick, Sophie, Victoria and I also met Mme Diarra, the warden of the women’s prison on Friday, and she would love to have us come implement Here Bolo. We are thinking of running Here Bolo there the week of either 7/23 or 7/30. Once we finalize the dates, Malick and I are going to meet with Mme Diarra again to take a tour of the prison and discuss any remaining logistic concerns.
Maddie Di Lorenzo
Brown University ’08