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 ]
1mCHW is excited to be kicking off a new blog series called #AddYourCount, which is focusing on providing an insider view to CHW programs and the work that they are accomplishing on the ground. The first interview in our series is with Alfred Wise, the Country Director of Living Goods Branch in Uganda. Living Goods… [ More ]
Hello everyone, my name is Katy Iglehart and I am the West Africa Portfolio Intern with the 1mCHW Campaign. I spent a month in Accra, Ghana, supporting the Financing Community Health Worker Systems at Scale in sub-Saharan Africa conference, and then spent a few weeks in Kumasi, Ghana, helping conduct a situational analysis with the… [ More ]
Hello everyone! My name is Sule Kulein and I am a GSK PULSE Volunteer from Istanbul, Turkey. I am currently on a 6-month assignment, stationed in Ghana, with the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign. In this blog series I am going to provide you with information about the Campaign’s work, progress on… [ More ]