What motivates me in my work as a GHC fellow with FVS-AMADE?
To many of my friends and family, it may have seemed like a strange decision for me to leave a decent paying job in NYC to work for an entire year as a Global Health Corps fellow in Burundi, a small, French-speaking country in East Africa where running water and electricity are a luxury. At […]
The Power of a Co-Fellow
“A friend is always good to have, but difficult to be”, says Norbert Harms. To foster cross-cultural and cross-sector partnerships in the fight for global health equity, the five-year-old Global Health Corps (GHC) fellowship pairs together two fellows, one international fellow and one national in-country fellow, and places them in a high-impact health organization. I […]
On Condom Campaigns
The other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine Fiskani. We got on the subject of HIV/AIDS and he said he feels bad when he sees elder women in their 40s and 50s who are infected by their husbands. He said these men infect their wives after having affairs with younger […]
Period Shaming
I vividly remember when I started my periods and the time leading up to it; I had little information about my body as you can imagine a young 12 year old primary school girl. But I remember learning about it in class with a classroom half full of boys and all the male teacher said […]
The Importance of Play
A couple months into my fellowship, I realized that I felt far away from the people that I’m here to serve. Working at an organization that doesn’t take part in direct service, it was difficult to feel like I was contributing to the issues I saw every day in Boston. Volunteering gave me a great […]
Fishing Stories from Jinja
From the horizon, the sun takes time to rise; it is an orangy subdued lighting offering its warmth to the waters of Lake Victoria while chasing the morning mist. Very early, on the shore of Kingfisher Safari Resort, men are busy cleaning and pushing their wooden boats into the waters. While men spend prolonged time […]
Mapping public health
Back when I was a graduate student with heaps of time to spare, I developed this fondness with cartography, and collecting guide maps as souvenirs has been my favorite hobby ever since I decided to be a wandering learner. But seriously for friends who know me very well, they always think I am doing it […]
Worry Not; These Things Don’t Matter
Since I joined the Global Health Corps fellowship six months ago, I have had time to reflect on my past and analyze the present, as I idealize what the future holds, especially in the short term, after the fellowship. I must say, it is never too early to have such thoughts. This is because the future […]