When Sharon Harvey, RN/co-founder of ASELSI, shared the need to train local workers in Chichicastenango to meet the needs for basic physical, occupational, and speech therapy services for children with disabilities to a group of professionals, they did not think it would work. After all, it takes years of training to learn these skills. How can you teach someone with no more than a third-grade education to provide basic rehabilitation services for children with disabilities? Here I share how we discovered it is not only possible, but it works.

This video was from my breakout session at the Mobilizing Medical Missions Conference in Houston last February. Next year’s conference will be February 20-21. For more information visit https://m3missions.com/.