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GFH Trainees Become National Trainers

Here’s yet another Kigoma success story: We recently learned that three of our star pupils from Kigoma—Grencia, Leonarda and Bernadetta—have become National Trainers and just finished their second cervical cancer training campaign in Pwani, Tanzania, a region that has had no cervical cancer prevention programs until now. They trained 12 providers for six sites: the [...]

Legwork in Tanzania

Dr. Annah Kichambati

On Friday October 21, Executive Director August Burns and Senior Clinical Officer Ellen Starr departed for the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. They are currently in the process of meeting with the Association of Kilimanjaro Specialty Coffee Growers (Kilicafe), the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the Tanzania Ministry of Health to finalize plans [...]

Trip Report: Nicaragua - September 2011

Amanda, Kayla, and August with San Juan de Rio Coco coop collaborators

From Sep 21- Sep 30, 2011, Grounds for Health trained a new cohort of 11 doctors and nurses on cervical cancer screening using Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) and Pap, and treatment of pre-cancer with cryotherapy. Of the 11 providers, nine received [...]

Update from Nica Campaign: VIA/Cryo Success

Directly on the heels of the New York Times Article: Fighting Cervical Cancer With Vinegar and Ingenuity, Executive Director August Burns sent us a quick note:

Stats from 1st day of campaign: 66 women seen today. 16 positive for VIA 12 treated, 2 biopsies for invasive cancer, two will return tomorrow. We caught all three Pap [...]

Off to San Juan del Rio Coco, Nicaragua

Next stop: Nicaragua

This past week has been a flurry of activity at the Waterbury office as Elisa helped me and August pack-up an absurdly large amount of supplies and training material into five enormous black suitcases destined for the northern highlands of Nicaragua. The fact that this will be my first trip since joining [...]

Nueva Clínica en Chiapas

El lunes, 15 de agosto, cooperativa Comon Yaj Nop Tic (Todos lo Pensamos), quien trabaja con Cultivando la Salud (CLS), celebró su reunión anual de socios y la inauguración de su nueva clínica en Chiapas, México. CLS empezó de trabajar con Comon Yaj Nop Tic en diciembre de 2010 y juntos hicieron las actividades de [...]

New Clinic in Chiapas!

On Monday, August 15th, Grounds for Health (GFH) partner cooperative Comon Yaj Nop Tic (Mayan for Todos lo Pensamos/ We all think together) held their annual member meeting and celebrated the inauguration of their new clinic in Chiapas, Mexico. GFH started working with Comon Yaj Nop Tic in December 2010 and they hosted our training [...]

Story from Tanzania: Life is Good

This email from Executive Director August Burns a few weeks ago was too good not to share:

February 13, 2011

It’s 87 degrees according to my LL Bean travel clock. I notice the temperature as we move from place to place. It must have been 95 today as we sat in the Air [...]

Summer with CESMACH

For more, check out her blog entry on the Café Imports Grinder.

Here are a few highlights:

… Not once during my entire trip did I ever feel lonely or bored but rather overflowing with the joy I found in the relationships I established in each area of my Chiapan life, the work I was doing in [...]

Sustainability is ...

In today’s socially conscious world, we’re gaining a greater and greater understanding of how to responsibly help the less privileged world—be it in health care, agriculture, economics or otherwise. We’re no longer just asking, “what needs to be done,” but we’re examining how things can be done to have a lasting and meaningful impact. However, [...]

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