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Hello Everyone, I will be going on a medical mission to the Dominican Republic to provide medical services to Haitian migrant workers who work on the sugar cane plantations. The workers live in bateys, which are enclosed DR government-enforced spaces usually without piped water or electricity, mimimal education or medical aid. My primary role will be to help educate family members about key medical and developmental messages who accompany the person(s) needing medical attention. We have only moments to catch their attention and interact with them. The optimal level of education of these Haitian workers is likely to be less than fourth grade. This is a new type of education for me, having had prior experience with school-age, college-age and adult learners in the US, so I look for advice and support from those who have used sound pedogogical methods in such situations. Our plan to date is to mime a simple message; hopefully have a resident family then act it out; take photos of the resident actors, and leave the photos with captions at each of the bateys we visit. The messages may have to do with how to attend to medical issues, preventing AIDS, creating attachment with young children, or other messages that we become aware of on the spot. ? I am open to lessons that others have learned about conveying important health, safety, and developmental messages in situations such as this.