A one Year Fellowship: An amazing experience
Last year, just like now, I was in Connecticut for a two week training orientation preparing to become a Global Health Corps fellow. It’s been now a year now and it’s been a great experience: a journey of astonishing and beautiful discoveries. The world of non-profit is such an amazing one in all senses that […]
Gratitudes, good-byes, and a bit of advice
As I look back on this past year in these final weeks of my fellowship, I cannot help but be humbled and truly grateful to the Global Health Corps Program. I originally wrote about my feelings on this reflection earlier last month through a Facebook post. I wanted to re-post my comments here on the […]
Would I do this fellowship again?
It feels like just yesterday when I got on a plane, bound for Yale and the GHC training institute. I didn’t know what to expect, how I would fit in, what I would learn, or even how I would contribute to Global Health Corps. Days after receiving and accepting my offer letter, I tried to […]
Work Readiness Project
AKAZI KANOZE (work readiness) Project. Health Poverty Action, known as Health Unlimited prior to 2010, is an International NGO founded in 1984 by a group of British doctors working for large aid organisations in Afghanistan. They recognised the strong link between health and conflict. Since then, Health Poverty Action’s work has grown to include programmes in 13 countries across […]
A case for investment in local pharma in Africa
With 11% of the world’s population, and 25% of the global disease burden (and if I may add, 1% of the global health care expenditure), Africa never ceases to amaze many. Add to this, only 1% share of the world’s pharmaceutical markets is in Africa, and two thirds of the global value of pharmaceutical products […]
Thank You, Malawi
As I wrap up my last week here in Malawi, I am overwhelmed by how lightning fast and yet excruciatingly slow this year has been. I came to Malawi as a 22 year old (granted, I was two days shy of my birthday), and am leaving 24. I feel as though I had a lifetime […]
Who is the Bread Winner?
There is one thing I always see. I see it when I walk the streets of Lusaka and many other towns of Zambia-I see it early in the morning, at noon and late in the evening. Even when I switch on my television set to what documentaries about life in different part of the world, […]
Catherine’s Story
Meet Catherine, one of the most amazing women I know, and her six-year-old daughter. Catherine recently agreed to tell her story to her community, to encourage other women to come for cervical cancer screening. I and my co-fellow had the honor and privilege of being there when she told her story. Here’s what she said: […]
Countdown
I was walking up the stairwell of our triple-decker apartment the other day when a familiar scent hit me. I racked my brain, desperately trying to figure out when I first encountered it, and then I remembered… It was the same scent from my first day in Boston, the day my co-fellows and I arrived […]
The hidden side of photography
Think twice before you throw away or delete that photo from your album; you never know when it might be of help at some point just like it happened to me. My organsation Action Africa Help International has been struggling to establish an Anti-retoviral therapy (ART) clinic in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement to increase access to […]