The next interview in our #AddYourCount Series is with Mercy Owuor, the Community Programs Director of Lwala Community Alliance in Kenya. Lwala’s goal is to “build the capacity of the people of Lwala, Kenya, to advance their own comprehensive well-being.” What are some of the services provided by your current CHW program? Lwala Community Alliance… [ More ]
Welcome back for this week’s installment of the #addyourcount series! This week we interviewed Elia Msegu, project manager of AMREF Health Africa’s Tanzania program. What are some of the services provided by your current CHW program? The CHWs in our program provide immunization services, act as community-based distributors of modern family planning services, and help… [ More ]
The One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign has finally released a report on the outcomes from its 2015 workshop, Financing Community Health Worker Systems at Scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report shows that there is a timely opportunity to invest in government-led scale-up of community health worker programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Released today, the… [ More ]
Welcome back for this week’s installment of the #addyourcount series! This week we interviewed Elizabeth Wainwright, Managing Director of Community Health Global Network (CHGN), and Walter Rutto, a CHGN Cluster member in Kenya. CHGN’s mission is to “encourage communities to recognize their assets and abilities, identify shared concerns and discover solutions together, in order to… [ More ]
Hello everyone! Almost two months into my PULSE volunteer assignment, here I am with my second blog post (those who missed the beginning of my story can read about it here). This time, I am saluting you from Kumasi, the second biggest city in Ghana and the capital of the Ashanti region. Before I get… [ More ]
