Growth at Gardens for Health International

Five months ago, I sat with Gardens for Health International (GHI)’s leadership team and laid out big sheets of white paper across the GHI ‘farm table’—a long outdoor table in the middle of the GHI farm, overlooking the rolling hills of Rwanda and the sunflowers planted around it. On that morning we began our first […]

Close to the end, closer to the beginning…

Somehow when I wasn’t paying attention, we have reached the last quarter of our fellowship. And as with any chapter coming to a close in the near future, the little bug called ‘anxiety’ come buzzing in our ear… the ‘NOW WHAT?!?!?’ factor comes creeping in. It’s easy to get caught up in the ‘what next?’ […]

Taking the time to (not) solve problems…

On an average week I spend eight to ten hours on a bus, commuting between work sites and into the capital city of Kigali. To be honest, I use to dread these bus rides—cramped, sweaty, four or five to a seat, bumping up and down on dirt roads for hours. The other day though, as […]

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, […]