11 Community Health Workers Graduate from CAO

On June 30th, 2009, 11 women were certified as Community Health Workers by Colorado African Organization. These women attended an 8-week intensive training course at CAO on preventive health– cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS. Armed with their certificates, these women will be presenting health education sessions in their home communities once a month, supported by CAO staff members. These presentations will be held in homes, community centers and other convenient locations; there will be food and drink provided, and it’s a great opportunity not only to learn about how you can stay healthy and disease-free but also to gather with other Africans in the metro area.

The eleven women come from all over Africa– Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Cameroon, for example– and speak many local African languages as well as French and Arabic. If you or someone you know are interested in joining one of these community health worker groups, please call CAO at 303-751-2290 and ask for Oumar or email Oumar at oumar0@caoden.org.

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Reprinted with permission from the CAO Blog.

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