Me leading Simon Says during a break from our presentation

Two of the girls at Bonne Nehru school

All the school boys love getting their pic taken

Diabetes education campaign at Bonne Nehru School

Check out some pics of the kids (16 yr olds) at this rural school about 1 hour from Pondicherry in a city named Thirukkanur. Caroline from Ireland, Rosanne from Holland, Prabu, Prime Trust office manager and myself traveled via bus. We held the diabetes session for two hours one day and then returned on another day to conduct HIV/AIDS awareness. On the diabetes session day, we created an interactive game where some kids formed a cell line, some formed the pancreas, some acted out the part of food converting to glucose and the final group consisted of a group within the pancreas that acted as insulin cells. Then, we conducted two actions - one where the body was a normal working body with no diabetes and the other action showed the body's process or response when there is little to no insulin aka diabetes. It really drove the message home.