2008 Ghana team
Reflections on the progress of the HOPE Centre
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 19, 2008
Colleen, my partner in crime this past year as co-president of GlobeMed at NU and the one who will be spending 9 months at the HOPE Center this year working to develop an HIV VCT (voluntary testing and counseling center), has some important analysis of her experiences so far at the …Keep Reading
Tour of the Ando Village Farm
Posted by Peter Luckow on August 14, 2008
Here is a short video of our trip to the Ando village demonstration farm. The farm is part of the HOPE Center's community nutrition project, and will serve to train and acclimate the local community to soy beans, which are not traditionally grown in this region. Severe protein deficiency is the …Keep Reading
A brief tour of the HOPE Centre
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 13, 2008
Don't worry. Much more to come...
Great success!
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 12, 2008
After about a full day of struggling with the code, I was finally able to install the medical records software on one of the computers at the Center. Now begins the real work of inputing all of the data that the Center has collected about its patients on paper records into …Keep Reading
Video - First days in Ghana
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 11, 2008
Here is some video of our first days in Ghana. I'm still learning to take good video, so bear with me. But, enjoy what I've taken so far!
“but here is one we can”
Posted by Colleen Fant on August 10, 2008
The title of this entry is a quotation that has been running through my mind for the past few days. I saw a movie before I left and in it a character asked "what is the point (of helping) there are thousands more where that one came from" and the response …Keep Reading
First day in Ho
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 7, 2008
We finally made it to Ho! Nikita and I met the rest of our team (Sarah and Colleen) at the airport, and Joseph picked us up from there like planned. We didn't get to Joseph's (our host and director of the HOPE Center) house until pretty late, close to 1:00 am. …Keep Reading
Introducing the 2008 Ghana summer team
Posted by Jon Shaffer on August 2, 2008
In the month of August, four of us will be traveling to Ghana and the HOPE Center: Colleen Fant, the former co-president of GlobeMed at Northwestern (and a recent grad of NU), Nikita Kohli, the current co-president of GlobeMed at NU, Sarah Mihalov, global project coordinator for GlobeMed at NU, and …Keep Reading
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