Loving and Serving the Community
Global Health Corps is a leadership and professional development fellowship program for emerging global health leaders. It works to improve the lives of people in communities by ensuring social justice and health equity for all. ACODEV-Uganda, my placement organization, works to improve the lives of people in the community, especially the hard to reach […]
Find It. Share It. Solve It.
In my first 6 months of the Global Health Corp Fellowship, while placed with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, I have gotten immersed in programs about the eradication of HIV/AIDS. I am now working closely with a group of young people, known as Ariel Ambassadors, and it’s a great honor to understand what it means […]
Live it and Love it: The Thrill that Comes with Compassion
It is a tradition in many cultures to help one another and to express love and kindness in times of good and bad. These cultures have evolved from handing over gifts like chicken, goats and other material gifts to now the much talked about funding of projects in the developing world – in other words […]
The power in numbers.
Meet Namuleme Sandra a senior one student at Amka classic secondary school, she joined Reach Out Mbuya (ROM) in 2012. Prior to joining ROM, Sandra was at Victory primary school in Kawempe. She fell sick in 2011 and missed school for a whole year as she was bedridden. She was put on treatment for […]
Need for Research Capacity Building and the role of online courses
Need for Research Capacity Building and the role of online courses As a Global Health Corps fellow, so far I have been involved with research activities , and particularly capacity building. I stay in rural area, where little health information is available. People who live in my neighborhood may have little knowledge of diseases as […]