By Kasha Patel Combining her interests of science and writing, Kasha Patel travels to Kenya with the Pamoja Together program to write about the impact of foreign aid for Kenyan healthcare workers and finds some commonalities between her hometown community in Fairmont, West Virginia and the community in Ting Wangi, Kenya. Related Link: http://timeswv.cnhi.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=01d68c5a3
Part 2: Leveraging knowledge to fight disease and disability Illness, injury and disability can devastate a country’s people and resources as ruthlessly as any war. Aid organizations often appear during a crisis to combat disease outbreaks and — if time and money allow — to teach people in affected communities how to prevent future flare […]
Part 1: Direct Health Initiative It’s almost the punchline to an unfunny joke but most Americans have absolutely no idea of how much — actually, how little — the country spends on foreign aid. A 2013 Kaiser Family Foundation survey on the U.S. role in global health found that, when asked to guess how much […]
Take heart, that pregnancy is a blessing By Verah Okeyo Sandra Ruong’o is a woman at peace with herself and the world around her: she laughs easily, an engaging laugh that makes you want to join in. We find her in an apron at her parent’s restaurant, Summerworld, in Bondo, Kisumu, where she is the […]