The Mission Day 1
Today was the first official day of business for the CambodiaCAN fact finding mission. Our itinerary was to have a morning meeting with the regional health authority and then spend the afternoon planning our activities for the next few weeks. When we arrived at the offices we discovered that a ceremony had pulled the representatives we were supposed to meet away from the office. So, back to home base at the Kep guest house "Veranda".
Buntheon, has been fantastic giving us lots of background on the area and the people and organizations that make sense for us to visit. The missed meeting in the morning gave us the chance to have a planning session before going back to the health offices for a second try at a meeting. We had a very productive meeting with Buntheon, Kunthy (Centre for Internation Health) and our translators Rot and San (I'm sure I've got the spelling wrong but I'll work on that for another post). We worked out our schedule for the next few weeks and plan to visit a few of the 16 villages that make up the Kep district. Our plans include visiting Village elders, schools, hospitals and a local NGO.
After our meeting we headed out for the health offices for our meeting and.... strike two. It seems a meeting wasn't in the cards today, so we've decided to press on with the visits to Kep villages before we meet with the health authority. I think we will be doing a lot of improvising since it will be hard for us to know everybody's schedules here.
This afternoon Crystal and Euson sat down with Rot and San and discussed how they would present the goals of the project to village elders and other stakeholders. It was important to come up with a clear picture of what rehab can do in the community. We got the impression that rehab is not widely understood or available here.
On the more personal side of things we've had some fantastic meals! We certainly won't be losing any weight over here. The seafood in the beach restaurants at Kep is fantastic! The sightseeing has been great too. I've posted a few pictures to my flickr photostream.
Buntheon, has been fantastic giving us lots of background on the area and the people and organizations that make sense for us to visit. The missed meeting in the morning gave us the chance to have a planning session before going back to the health offices for a second try at a meeting. We had a very productive meeting with Buntheon, Kunthy (Centre for Internation Health) and our translators Rot and San (I'm sure I've got the spelling wrong but I'll work on that for another post). We worked out our schedule for the next few weeks and plan to visit a few of the 16 villages that make up the Kep district. Our plans include visiting Village elders, schools, hospitals and a local NGO.
After our meeting we headed out for the health offices for our meeting and.... strike two. It seems a meeting wasn't in the cards today, so we've decided to press on with the visits to Kep villages before we meet with the health authority. I think we will be doing a lot of improvising since it will be hard for us to know everybody's schedules here.
This afternoon Crystal and Euson sat down with Rot and San and discussed how they would present the goals of the project to village elders and other stakeholders. It was important to come up with a clear picture of what rehab can do in the community. We got the impression that rehab is not widely understood or available here.
On the more personal side of things we've had some fantastic meals! We certainly won't be losing any weight over here. The seafood in the beach restaurants at Kep is fantastic! The sightseeing has been great too. I've posted a few pictures to my flickr photostream.
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