Project Healthy Family
This is an old photo. It is Met Claude Souffrance at a seminar for Project Healthy Family facilitators. Met Claude is the coordinator who has developed the project from its early beginnings. He works in about 25 of the communities surrounding Bohoc. In each community there are 2 facilitators who work with 25 people in their area. Met Claude trains the facilitators and then they train the people in their communities about health, sanitation, nutrition and evangelism. There are also facilitators trained to teach others to read. The goal is to see the health of the community improve physically, spiritually and educationally. The photo above was of a demonstration about AIDS. At the beginning of the demonstration, all the coke bottles are covered with paper sleeves. The bottles represent people. The paper is their clothing! At first all the bottles are filled with clear water. They are grouped on the shelf in "households" -- the Cultivator family, the Tailor family, the Single woman, 2 Single men sharing a house and the Faithfull family, for example. All are well and the village is healthy. Then along comes a truck driver. He is HIV positive. Met Claude adds food coloring to the water in the driver's bottle to represent the HIV virus. The truck driver sleeps with the wife of the Cultivator family who sleeps with her husband who sleeps with the single woman who sleeps with, etc, etc. Each time someone sleeps with someone else, Met Claude mixes the water in their bottles. Finally almost everyone in the village has slept with someone they should not have or with someone who slept with someone else, except for a few of the single people and some of the children and the Faithful family. Then Met Claude "undresses" everyone. And lo and behold, everyone is now HIV positive except those who remained faithful. The illustration is very effective. And the emphasis is that abstinance until marraige and fidelity in marraige are the only sure ways to avoid HIV infection due to sexual contact. 
This is an old photo. It is Met Claude Souffrance at a seminar for Project Healthy Family facilitators. Met Claude is the coordinator who has developed the project from its early beginnings. He works in about 25 of the communities surrounding Bohoc. In each community there are 2 facilitators who work with 25 people in their area. Met Claude trains the facilitators and then they train the people in their communities about health, sanitation, nutrition and evangelism. There are also facilitators trained to teach others to read. The goal is to see the health of the community improve physically, spiritually and educationally. The photo above was of a demonstration about AIDS. At the beginning of the demonstration, all the coke bottles are covered with paper sleeves. The bottles represent people. The paper is their clothing! At first all the bottles are filled with clear water. They are grouped on the shelf in "households" -- the Cultivator family, the Tailor family, the Single woman, 2 Single men sharing a house and the Faithfull family, for example. All are well and the village is healthy. Then along comes a truck driver. He is HIV positive. Met Claude adds food coloring to the water in the driver's bottle to represent the HIV virus. The truck driver sleeps with the wife of the Cultivator family who sleeps with her husband who sleeps with the single woman who sleeps with, etc, etc. Each time someone sleeps with someone else, Met Claude mixes the water in their bottles. Finally almost everyone in the village has slept with someone they should not have or with someone who slept with someone else, except for a few of the single people and some of the children and the Faithful family. Then Met Claude "undresses" everyone. And lo and behold, everyone is now HIV positive except those who remained faithful. The illustration is very effective. And the emphasis is that abstinance until marraige and fidelity in marraige are the only sure ways to avoid HIV infection due to sexual contact. 
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