Cultural differences determine the simplest actions & outcomes. During several workshops, I observed that the campesinos were responding differently to the process of counting off in numbers (1, 2, 3) in order to divide into groups. Not only were they not understanding how to count sequentially and repetatively, but once asked to separate according to the numbers, the groups always ended up unequal and imbalanced. When I mentioned this to the Belgian nurse in AFOPADI, she told me how she finally achieved success with this process. Instead of counting, she asked everybody to imagine that she and the other two health promotores had very fast pick-ups that were ascending the mountain. She pantamimed the vehicle´s course complete with sound track and very quickly the group divided into three equal parts.
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