Differences between JUNTOS and Vaso de Leche Sample Clauses

Differences between JUNTOS and Vaso de Leche. The CARE staff points out that JUNTOS gives more educational information than Vaso de Leche. Vaso de Leche is more important for simply recieving milk. More spefically, the staff says that JUNTOS does not necessarily give 'talleres' or workshops on specific skills, but 'orientaciones' or guidlines, which have a tendency to be didatic and not very interactive. Theme (6) Coordination One participant explains that a guideline session, “…more than anything is a good coordination between the health posts [in the communities] where you can find these groups of promoters [during the montly meetings] having, ‘groups’ (CARE Staff FGD). The same participant goes on to explain that the CARE staff coordinates with the health xxxx xxxxx to complete the food demonstration sessions, which influce the educational component and the skill based component. She explains, “… the demontration sessions, in which our scope is where we promote, in conjunction with the JUNTOS Staff, but also with populations who don’t have access to JUNTOS necessarily…” (CARE Staff FGS). The discussion continues in this same direction. The staff explains that if the MtMSGs were developed soley by themselves, it would be a waste of time for the mothers, so CARE must strategize and build the social support group efforts onto a pre-existing program. The CARE staff believes that JUNTOS and Vaso de Leche, more so than just the women in the communities, themselves, that these programs help to teach the leaders of the communities about nutricion practices. Beyond that they feel that these groups and leaders must further transmit the knowledge into or within the communities themselves because the leaders of these groups are the women that are 'within' the communities and can truely transmit the information. “So…we have to consider the best way we are to look for a way to make the groups be the most accessible. We are thinking that they have a nexus with some of the other social programs. Maybe we could combine them with the theme of the Wawa Wasi or with one strategy that we are developing with theme unit of community surviellence [height and weigth monitoring]… So one of the way or another would be linking these two mechanism to ensure that the women have [all that they need]” (CARE Staff FGD, p 87-89).