Summer Afternoon to Benefit COHI's Tanzania Project

Friends and fellow volunteers,

Well, there's no avoiding it any longer - it's summer, and it's sweltering here in the city. Friends of COHI are looking out for you, though, so mark your calendars - on Saturday, August 9th, we'll be holding a special event at Brooklyn's lovely Flatbush Farm and Bar(n), where we'll relax on the patio, chill out in the shade, and enjoy each other's company. Most importantly, we'll be celebrating COHI's growing efforts to improve maternal and neonatal health care in Kisarawe, Tanzania!

Mindy Levy, Israel, COHI field volunteer demonstrating informed consent before a pelvic exam during a training in rural clinic in Kisarawe District, Summer 2007

In 2005, COHI began providing training in neonatal health, HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence to FLEMAFA, a local women's health organization in Kisarawe. Each summer, COHI also sponsors a women's health conference and brings a global team of women's health care professionals to provide training and workshops to local women's health practitioners. In mid-August of this year, we'll be sending an expanded team of doctors, nurses, and midwives to Tanzania, where they'll work side-by-side with our local partners, helping them build their capacity to deliver reproductive health care services so that our work will sustain itself for years to come.

Purchase tickets or make donation

This is an event you don't want to miss, but you must respond quickly - tickets are first-come, first-serve, and they'll be gone fast!

Yours,
Dawn Gunther
Friends of COHI
dawny611[at]yahoo.com
www.cohintl.org

Circle of Health International is a 501c3 nonprofit organization supporting the empowerment of conflict- and disaster-affected women through the provision of women's health initiatives. Learn more and get involved at www.cohintl.org.