Hope where least expected
I work as an advocacy and communications specialist for Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) and I love what I do. I have always wanted to work for women and children, particularly African women and children and this is a big part of what I do at Baylor-Uganda. I think I expected to see […]
Why pay more
Consultation fees to see a doctor at the local health center where I work are only 2000 Ugandan shillings, or less than a dollar. This is significantly less than the 25000 shillings that I was used to before signing up for GHC Fellowship. This is exactly what I was looking for – a health center […]
“Cohort” – The Power of a Single Word
During the past couple of weeks my co-fellow Lindsey and I have been working on our organization’s M&E narrative and technical reports for 2013 quarter 2. Time and time again, we come across the word “cohort.” Cohort could be the most used word in Malawi’s HIV/AIDS program. The program has five different areas with tons […]
Sometimes the only thing that can stop you is you
Just a few steps up the hill and it was all I could do to not drop to my knees and start crawling. My normal tactic of staring at the horizon and focusing on the end of the challenge just wasn’t working after everything I’d been through that day… I was realizing that continuing through […]
The virtues of new insights
Having basically spent most of my life in Uganda, one of the items that has always been on my bucket list has been to explore places of wilderness, including various small communities located in rural settings across the country. For those who are visiting Africa and Uganda in particular for the first time, it is […]
Paint by Numbers
Since I was a child, the perfect fluidity of the way sunlight spills like water across Spanish fields or the seductive flash of a bright pink gomesi dress in the rear-view mirror amid trails of dust convinced me that I live in a world entirely made of metaphor. A mutable world where precision and definition […]
My First 60 Days
It has been 8 weeks since I started my work with the USAID-ASSIST project here in Uganda. When I entered the gates of this good-looking building with a pool that we never use, I didn’t know what to expect despite all the information I had read about the project. To be honest, 60% of the […]
A change in perception about health equity
As the saying goes, “My future, I can change, but for my past I have no say about it.” What came to me as a distant dream, today I see; I am a GHC Fellow, working with people committed to social justice and health equity. As we walk through the journey of life, how I […]
A call to reality!
HIV/AIDS had never really meant much to me because I only read or heard about it from afar. My former workplace, World Vision Uganda, had HIV/AIDS projects passing on prevention messages but did not offer treatment. During the first weeks at my placement organization Reach Out Mbuya (ROM), I was surprised by the number of people at […]
The Crood in me!
As I completed my last day of work at my previous job, I had a thousand questions running through my mind. Why was I leaving? What was I asking for accepting the Global Health Corps placement? I had a great new job and I was still getting ahead in my career. If I had a […]