Student Becomes Teacher, And Vice Versa
My fellowship year has already felt like a series of situations I never thought I would find myself in, and every time I think I’m getting a hold of things, the next unexpected experience comes shooting down the pipeline. My job in Burundi is to help get the establishment of a rural health clinic […]
Reinspired.
“I was just made acting chairman of the homeless commission”. I sat at my office desk and listened in silence as a man I have come to deeply respect spoke of the turns his life had taken. Once homeless, he had been dusted off, given a job and the opportunity to build a better future. […]
Lurking in the jaws of death
Where I come from, the birth of a new child is usually cause for celebration. Neighbors, friends, relatives and even strangers come to receive this newborn like he or she has come with a special message from God or the ancestors. Focus is often on the baby. And once they are “satisfied” with the baby, […]
Bright Spots in Kyangwali
Post by Breeanna Lorenzen There are many challenges to working in a refugee settlement. It can be easy to focus on the problems: refugees needing to resell their food to make a living, conflicts with the national police over land boundaries, the profound distances between the under-stocked and understaffed health centers. However, as Dan and […]
What does it take to think differently?
Post by: Latifah Kiribedda I have pondered this question for a while. In doing Global Health work, I have seen or heard various scenarios that I believe contribute to taking us off the trail to achieving global health equity. These scenarios most frequently occur in the rural and hard-to-reach areas. For example, I have encountered […]
A Glimpse of Light
On a recent excursion the Land Rover bounced along pothole-ridden gravel roads for over an hour as my head throbbed along with each bump in the midday heat. The meandering road stretched through Kasese District, located on Uganda’s western border; our destination was a small village called Nyakatonzi, abutting the shores of lakes Edward and […]
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby.
“Really, we need to communicate what gives us pleasure. If he’s going to come in bed and demand sex, I want to at least be pleasured.” My face turned white. I looked up, stunned, and listened as the sixty year-old retired teacher continue to talk about her sex life. Men and women in the room […]
The sky will not be the limit!
“Ring..Ring,” goes the phone as I received a call from one of the recruiting officers of the Global Health Corps. “Are you Ariong Moses?,” to which I answered in the affirmative. He was informing me that I was wanted for an interview in the next day by 2:00 PM, as I had passed preliminary screening […]
What we can’t do without others…
I often wonder what this year would have been like had I come to Rwanda independently of GHC. As someone who knew I wanted to work in global health since I was a teenager, I very easily could have gotten on a plane and found a project here independently. Two months into the fellowship year, […]
On working behind the scenes
Working for global health equity isn’t always as glamorous as going out in the field, working directly in the community. Sometimes the most effective work you can do for the global health equity movement is behind the scenes…