Visiting the Kilembe Mines Hospital – My First Field Visit in Uganda
As a new ’13-’14 fellow with GHC, I arrived in Kasese, Western Uganda just about a month ago. Along with 3 other fellows, I work at Action for Community Development (ACODEV), an NGO focused on HIV/AIDS, human rights, and reproductive/child health. At ACODEV, the philosophy is simple: we believe in power, ingenuity, and the potential […]
Health and Technology, 1 app at a time.
7 weeks before I was scheduled to leave my former job and embark on my Global Health Corp Fellowship, I undertook a seemingly impossible task: to have students at my Health Sciences University, with no prior programming and/or systems design experience, design a mobile app. But deep inside me, I knew we would never pull […]
The Inspiration
In most of my childhood memories, there’s always been a single story about how to acquire HIV – promiscuous sex. Yet when I signed up to become a Global Health Corps fellow, i had no idea how, within a matter of months, this story would be changed. With a University degree, its ample to say […]
MY PERSONAL NARRATIVE-The turning point of my life
“Every face tells a story” so goes the saying. However, it takes some time for someone to tell the correct story from the face he/she sees. When I first saw and met Ken Montgomery in July 2001, I had no correct story to read from his face. My friends and I saw him as just […]
How to Discover Your Life Purpose
One of the things that have been challenging for me over the years is discovering myself; who I am , what I am meant to be, what my life purpose is and how to accomplish it. Often times I’ve heard from influential people around me, be it at school, at work, at church or at […]
Haikus on Burundian Food
Burundian food… Mix of African and world Not just rice and beans Green Lenga Lenga Soft ground spinach melts in mouth Sometimes find a rock Ugali! Yum! Yum! Squishy, gluy feeling in hand Lop! Dip! Scoop some food. Oh pan chocolate… Diets fail at Café G Less than one dollar! Beer and brochette Once a […]
CommCare Comes to Mwandama
In March, my co-fellow Rodrick and I helped facilitate a training of over 30 community health workers (CHWs) on CommCare, a new mobile data collection tool being rolled out across all MVP sites. CommCare provides a simple, easy-to-use case management tool for CHWs, helping them manage the enrollment, support, referral, and tracking of all clients […]
Happy-go-lucky!
June 23, 2013 – GHC visiting Village Health Works in Kigutu, Bururi, Burundi. We were given the rare opportunity to tour the medical facilities, husbandry site, and community gardens that make up VHW. Along with the primary school children enrolled in the United States Embassy’s English Access Program, we made friendship bracelets and taught them […]
The Significance of My Changed Role
Prior to becoming a fellow for Global Health Corps, after waking up and walking to work every morning, and before I am able to sit down or get the morning hand off, someone (always a woman) would call out for my help. “Doctor!” she shouts, “Please attend to me, I came in this morning and […]
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 […]