Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 3 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
By Matt Pelkey
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Over 4,000 miles away, in a small coastal town in northwest Africa, three guests from Rappahannock are expected.
On Feb. 15, midwife Kristine Lauria, her son Alessandro — a second grader at Hearthstone School — and Hearthstone teacher Kitty Keyser will fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Dakar, the capitol of Senegal. From there they will drive an hour and a half down bumpy dirt roads to M'boro sur Mer, where they will spend the next month.
Lauria will be working in the village's health clinics, Keyser will be teaching and Alessandro will be along for the experience.
The trip will be the second to MTwro sur Mer for Lauria and Alessandro, who went last year. Lauria is going as part of a program arranged by the non-profit organization African Birth Collective. A midwife of over 18 years, she will help deliver babies in the village’s three health clinics and teach modem delivery techniques to the local staff.
“The midwives over there that attend most of the births, they have six months' worth of training,” Lauria said.
She said that the instruction they received for their jobs was basic and bast'd on outdated methods.
“They get no anatomy and physiology,” she said. “Basically they’re taught what to do, but they don’t know why."
Lauria will step in and demonstrate child delivery practices to the midwifes as well as to six visiting students with the African Birth Collective program.
And she will bring much-needed medical supplies in addition to her knowledge of midwifery.
“They arc* well staffed in the clinics but what they don’t have on an on-going basis are medical supplies, so we bring what we can when we come," she said.
All of the participants in African Birth Collective’s program an* required
69.2%