Oil choice

[Guest guest]

Hi all

Moira wrote:

<I'm so glad you also do this, as one of the aromatherapists I asked about

this practice suggested nastily that I was simply too lazy to bother to make

an " informed selection " . >

Why couldn't it be an informed selection? You can hardly let the client sniff

all

your oils (I've got about 90). So you make an educated guess, chose some that

you

think will be right, then let them make the final choice.

Where's Ethembeni? We have a group of aromatherapists working voluntarily at

Nazareth House, also with AIDS babies (as well as other projects) as part of our

Aroma Care Plan.

Helen in Cape Town

[Guest guest]

>Where's Ethembeni? We have a group of aromatherapists working voluntarily

at

>Nazareth House, also with AIDS babies (as well as other projects) as part

of our

>Aroma Care Plan.

 

 

Ethembeni is an AIDS babies home run by The Salvation Army (also has a few

HIV negative abandoned babies, but we try to find homes in which to place

all babies and HIV negative ones usually get preference) in Doornfontein,

Johannesburg. Doornfontein is the heart of our red light district, and it

is definitely not the greatest of areas. It is wonderful working in this

part of the world, because it always strikes me as being where the need is

actually the greatest.

 

Ethembeni has place for sixty babies, 8 mothers and 16 former commercial sex

workers (who have already completed their addiction rehabilitation) and who

are now being taught skills which should help them not return to the

streets. I work with the commercial sex workers only insofar as I organise

social activities for them when I organise social outings for a broad group

of HIV+ adults. No aromatherapy for them, because I really don't have

time.

 

The babies and toddlers get my attention when a group of young people who

are learning first aid and basic home care go, as volunteers, to help out at

Ethembeni. The matron of Ethembeni is wonderful, and encourages my young

people to help out. They also help at an eventide home. I would like these

young people (St. John Ambulance Cadets) to learn a bit about aromatherapy,

but I myself lack formal qualifications. :-( Maybe I should investigate

the on-line training that other members discuss - what feedback have the

others had on these subjects? Any e-mail addresses of " colleges " which

offer this training?

 

All the children are from our Salvation Army Children's Home, and I am a

Salvation Army Officer.

 

Moira de Swardt

Using all God's resources.