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The objective is to give rural families the opportunity to learn about preventive health measures. This is accomplished by equipping village women as volunteer workers for community-based health care. The training enables them to share what they have learned with others so they can:

Empower people to prevent serious disease by changing the conditions which cause it,
And treat illness in its earliest stage right in their own community.

The women attend 3 one-week-long courses over an eighteen month period. They experience and learn about a variety of topics related to health issues. After the first course they are able to teach.

BASIC HEALTH COURSE

Self-esteem
Parenting
Child Development
Child Nutrition
Vaccinations
Basic Sanitation
Disinfection Fruits and Vegetables
Family Nutrition
Dental Hygiene
Dry Composting Latrine
Lead Poisoning

INTERMEDIATE HEALTH COURSE

Fever
Oral Rehydration
Common Diseases
Amoebas & Parasites
Common Remedies
First Aid:

Burns

Fractures

Hemorrhages

Cuts and Scrapes

Hemorrahages
Nosebleeds
Bites and Stings
Eye Injuries
Symptoms of diseases

Intramuscular Injections

ADVANCED HEALTH COURSE

Sexual Organs
Menstruation
Pregnancy
Delivery
Postpartum Care
Abortion
Family Planning
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Uterine Cancer
Menopause
Medicinal Plants

The health workers gain additional information and learn new skills at the regional meetings each spring and fall. Periodically a four-day retreat for continuing education is hosted at the “Tree Of Life” Training Center. These workshops and classes reflect the needs and issues that the health workers encounter in their villages.

Teaching Brushing Technique

Each one-week training unit costs $333. per person. A total of $1,000. provides a village woman with the complete three-unit course plus teaching materials and a first-aid kit. Scholarships are needed to continue this vital ministry that enables people to live a life of health and wholeness.

If you are looking for a mission project that equips people whose lives touch hundreds of others, consider the “More Than A Bandage” Program. We invite you, your organization, church, district and/or conference to sponsor a scholarship for one or more women for one training unit or the complete three-unit course.

Please advise the GYTTE program, by e-mail or fax, of your decision. Once your donation is processed you will receive a photograph and letter regarding the woman you have sponsored as a community-based health worker.

16 Scholarships - Advanced Course