Hunger, malnutrition, malaria, water-borne diseases, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and injury, unplanned pregnancy, HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections are just some of the problems that have enormous implications for the health of our students and their families as the Take-Root Center.

Therefore this coming weekend, in collaboration with the NGO Working to Empower( http://www.workingtoempower.org/) , Seeds of Africa teachers, families, and students will participate in a health education seminar. The weekend will be broken down into three parts, Thursday November 24th Day 1 for educators, Friday November 25th Day 2 for students, and Saturday November 26th Day three for student families.

On the first day of the seminar, designed for our education and administrative team, we will be learning about how to practice healthy habits in the classroom everyday and how to support the mental and physical health of adolescents who are becoming young adults.  On day 2, the Seeds students will join the seminar and be split into gender and age-appropriate groups

Seminar topics will include:

• Nutrition: Definining good nutrition and learning how to prepare meals for a balanced diet. Different dietary needs, from children to pregnant mothers to the elderly and infirm will be discussed
• Eye Care: how the teaching staff should refer a member of the Seeds community o a clinic to get evaluatedf they should have vision problems.

• Health and personal hygiene (brushing teeth, washing hands, etc), 
• Preventive Care (covering your mouth, washing hands, face etc),
• Malaria : recognize the symptom and prevention through bed nets. 
• HIV, Aids, and STDs prevention and care,

• Diarrhea: how to define, assess, and prevent diarrhea. 
• HIV, Aids, and STDs prevention and care 
• Council in safe sex practices and family planning 
• Diabetes: prevention, and how to recognize early and latter stages.