Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

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all know that our community needs are many. In fact they are unlimited. However, the
resources we have are limited. Therefore, we have to start solving those problems that are
most important or urgent. This is called selecting priorities.
Volunteers also detect unusual events or emergencies early, identify health problems for
action, monitor service delivery and other related health activities. The volunteers also
advise individuals and households on health as well as collecting data for taking action in the
community. In the next topic we shall be discussing one of the most important sources of
community information.
Topic 2 Definition of community profile
A community profile is a document that gives a description of the main features of the
community such as the population, language, social activities disease profile, natural and
human resources and many others. As VHCs and CHVs, remember to include information
related to health in your community profile, for example, the community health compound,
water sources, public toilets and drug stores. (Exercise 2.1.1, Box 2.1.1).
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Exercise 2.1.1: Game
Objective
1. To list some important data
needed in a community profile
Time: 20 minutes.
Questions
1. If the District Assembly sent officers
to your community to collect data
to plan for the development of
the district, what are some of the
information you will give?
2. How did the card game help
you?
Box 2.1.1: The Information pairing game
Instructions to the Facilitator
1. Teach volunteers to play the information
matching game below
2. Then let them play the game
themselves
3. In plenary, show volunteers to share
what they gained/learnt from the game
4. Review all the main things that a
community profile should contain.
5. Allow volunteers to share experiences
from their communities
6. Let them compare their responses with
the list in Box 2.1.1
1. Put participants into groups of five
2. Make ready various community profile data written on cards
3. Put the information for each data on two separate cards.
4. Shuffle cards and distribute them to participants. Ask them to match the cards to get the
complete, information on the data
5. Each complete card should be displayed on the board
6. The prize should be announced before the game starts
7. The group that has the highest number of complete cards wins.
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