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Visiting Old Friends: Notes from COHI's Women's Health Field Team in Tanzania
Last year's team of volunteers were blessed to happen upon a birth in a rural clinic we were visiting. Mindy Levy, COHI Board Member and now two-time visitor to COHI's Tanzania field site, assisted in this safe, healthy delivery of a little baby boy. This little one was named Ahmed, after the only male member of COHI's team last year. What an honor! This year's field team returned to visit little Ahmed and his family and found him thriving. Living proof of COHI's impact in this rural region in Tanzania. This year's team is keeping a blog so that you can all follow along. To see the photos and read the narrative detailing the successes of the team click here. It's not too late for YOU to contribute to the fundraising efforts of this essential partnership. Click here to ensure that Ahmed, his siblings, and his mother have the quality and accessible healthcare they deserve. Thank you, and have a lovely day! Sera Bonds, MPH Take Three Minutes to Help COHI Win American Express Grant Please take this opportunity to give a few moments to nominate COHI for the American Express Members Project. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AN AMEX CARD HOLDER to nominate COHI. Anyone can go to the link here, and nominate the project that COHI is seeking funding for. It's called: Nurses Deliver, One Mother and Baby at a Time. It will help to fund our training of nurses and midwives in our current field sites: Israel, Palestine, Tanzania, Sudan, and Pakistan. Here is all you have to do: 1. Click here. 2. Nominate the project, "Nurses Deliver, One Mother and Baby at a Time". There will be another step on September 1, when we all have to VOTE for COHI. Don't worry, we will remind you. Thanks so much, and lets work together to help COHI win this award! COHI's new Organizational Fundraising Guide
It is our pleasure to share COHI's new Organizational Fundraising Guide. The goal is to better serve those generous souls who are interested in hosting fundraisers for COHI. The guide provides examples of past events and a "how to get started" check list. COHI relies on funding raised by individuals and groups like YOU through the hosting of events as varied as house parties to dramatic performances to summits of majestic mountains. Funds secured go directly to supporting COHI's essential programming in such places as Sudan and the Middle East. Don't wait to get involved, download it now and let COHI help you to connect directly with women living in crisis as you lend a hand to them in their plight for health and safety. |
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Circle of Health International's (COHI) volunteer, women's health field team is in Tanzania working alongside our partner, FLEMAFA, to provide technical and clinical support. This year's team boasts members from Canada, Israel and the U.S., and draws from the medical fields of family doctors, nurse midwives, and psychologists. They are spending their time hosting trainings for local healthcare staff on such topics as evidence-based medicine, mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and men's involvement in reproductive healthcare. COHI's team will also co-host the second annual joint conference highlighting our successes in the past year, and COHI through its partnerships with Direct Relief International and other donors has provided tens of thousands of dollars of lifesaving equipment and supplies. So far, however, one of the highlights has been much more personal than professional. 
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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. |
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