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Hope
What if human beings, just like animals, were to live with no affection, with no rationality? Just like animals, we would not fear the future. Our ability to project ourselves into the future allows us to consider the possibility of success or failure. Not being sure of everything, uncertainty and weakness in our lives push […]
Bringing them Back To Care
As humans, we have a need to feel assured of certain things in our lives. For example, the need to feel that someone cares, the need to feel that we are loved, and the need to be encouraged by someone. Sometimes we even feel the need to be told we are wrong or right. For […]
++ GHC HANGOUT NEXT WEEKEND! ++
Join us next weekend for a Google+ hangout! Get the inside scoop directly from current fellows on the fellowship experience, application tips and more. Submit your questions now via Twitter @ghcorps using #GHChangout or email [email protected] with subject line: GHC Hangout! Date and Time TBD.
Role Reversal
One of the things that first attracted me to the Global Health Corps was its partner model in which each fellow is placed with a partner fellow serving in the same organization, creating a fellowship team composed of one international fellow and one in-country fellow. As an American going to work in Malawi, I initially […]
It’s All About Perspective: Negative Isn’t Necessarily “Bad”
This fellowship is as much about learning as it is about making an impact. For those of us struggling with the prospect of walking away from our year making less of an impact or having fewer deliverables than we expected, it is important to keep in mind those immense lessons we are learning. Even if […]
Do You Need a Degree in Medicine to Address Challenges Affecting Health Service Delivery?
When I was a little kid, I never imagined that someone other than a person who has been trained in medicine can help patients. I grew up thinking that only doctors were entirely responsible for making sure that patients are taken care of. As time passed I came to realize that I was totally wrong […]
A Painful Realization: I Can’t Help This Time
I’m able to do the work that I do because I can usually separate what is possible for me to do from what is not possible. Remembering the serenity prayer is useful, “Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And, the wisdom […]
In Honor of Terry Garces Day 2.13.13
Today is 2.13.13, which is a special day to me. It’s Terry Garces Day. Who or what might that be, you ask? Well, she is someone very special to me, and it’s her birthday today! This has been one of the most amazing years of my life, living and working in Malawi towards my desired […]
Fighting Fire
I’m supposed to tell you that I’m changing the world. I’m supposed to tell you that I wake up every morning excited to contribute to the movement for global health equity and fall into bed every night exhausted from a deeply psychically satisfying day of doing so. But I’m not going to tell you those […]