Since orientation yesterday was rather straightforward, today we jumped right into work. Poor Casey was assigned the task of translating the entire website into Spanish. I’ve never been so thankful I take Chinese! As for myself, I started my gradual comb through the Focused Strategic Assessment that Curamericas created to assess the work they did in Guatemala. It’s a very long and dense report so it’ll take me a while to finish. One of things that I found most interesting was the section of the report that talked about Women’s Empowerment. The section laid out some of the factors that contribute to women’s empowerment and some of the factors that impeded women’s empowerment. When it comes to healthcare women’s empowerment is very important as so often decisions about their bodies and whether or not to seek care for themselves or for their children is determined by their husbands, but if they feel empowered to make their own health decisions, health outcomes for both women and children improve.
This picture is a chart I made in my notes that I was taking on the Women’s Empowerment section:
