Tonight I went to a farewell dinner for Dr. Marianne Szauer, one of the incredible and dynamic women I started working with when I first came to Grenada. I met her through my community partner Ann Hopkin, who was like her other half (I like to think of them as Laverne & Shirley). Dr. Szauer has been living here for a few years, working at the medical school and starting all kinds of programs like HIV Peer Counseling in the Prison, Boys on the Block (outreach to poor communities to educate them on safe sex and STI's), HIV Puppet Shows for Kids, and free mobile health clinics around the island. And all of this in her "free time." She's touched so many Grenadian lives and will be impossible to forget...not only because of her selfless service, but because of her unique and dynamic personality. I laugh whenever I think about how she would just march right up to men on the streets and lecture them on their unsafe sexual behavior and all the nasty STI's they could contract if they continued (and then proceed to show them descriptive photos). :) We'll miss you Dr. Szauer!
April 17, 2009
Goodbye Dr. Szauer!
Tonight I went to a farewell dinner for Dr. Marianne Szauer, one of the incredible and dynamic women I started working with when I first came to Grenada. I met her through my community partner Ann Hopkin, who was like her other half (I like to think of them as Laverne & Shirley). Dr. Szauer has been living here for a few years, working at the medical school and starting all kinds of programs like HIV Peer Counseling in the Prison, Boys on the Block (outreach to poor communities to educate them on safe sex and STI's), HIV Puppet Shows for Kids, and free mobile health clinics around the island. And all of this in her "free time." She's touched so many Grenadian lives and will be impossible to forget...not only because of her selfless service, but because of her unique and dynamic personality. I laugh whenever I think about how she would just march right up to men on the streets and lecture them on their unsafe sexual behavior and all the nasty STI's they could contract if they continued (and then proceed to show them descriptive photos). :) We'll miss you Dr. Szauer!
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