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Annual RHC Fundraiser: Give 4 Ghana

Rural Health Collaborative’s annual fundraiser is back! This year our goal is to sponsor each of our 37 Kekeli Women through 2015. To support one Kekeli Woman each month costs only $20. This covers a stipend, ongoing education and transportation costs, and supplies for their work. As part of our fundraiser this year, each RHC team member is going to…

Purchasing Carbon Offsets for RHC: An Open Conversation

For those who aren’t familiar, commercial air travel generates a LOT of carbon emissions. I’ve posted a graphic below that illustrates the point well. Compared to the emissions generated when driving, something we seem to hear a lot about (and we should given the number of cars on the road), air travel has the potential to…

June 2014 Trip Review: HBLSS Part 1

Presenting the Home-Based Life Saving Kekeli Women! They’re back at it! The Kekeli Women completed Part 1 of a new program aimed to reduce maternal mortality in their communities. The women met in June over a two week period in Eastern Ghana to further improve their skills. Previously trained in basic sanitation and hygiene, malaria…

An Easy Way To Help RHC: Amazon Smile

Call to action! You can help us raise money when you shop at Amazon.com through their new Amazon Smile program. It doesn’t cost you anything. Here’s how: 1. Click this link and sign-in to your amazon account. It will then be connected to RHC. 2. Whenever you shop at Amazon, go to www.smile.amazon.com instead of…

Meet David: RHC Country Director

David is a true entrepreneur, always in search of the next potential business opportunity. He is constantly on the go, juggling his many commitments, jobs, and mobile phones. He began his career as a teacher and has now moved on to mark standardized tests through the region. His other pursuits include owning a chemical shop…

Meet Georgina: RHC Director of Monitoring

Georgina is a woman of wisdom and great character. Born in Eastern Ghana, she has been living and working in the Akatsi District for over 30 years. She works for the environmental service, a branch of the Ghanaian government in Akatsi, and she is widely respected throughout the district for her work ethic and honesty.…

Teaching skills in the rain

It is the rainy season in Ghana right now. From May through July the rains come down, sometimes in downpours for a few minutes at a time and some days it is non-stop. Today was a non-stop kind of day. It was also day four of teaching. The 37 Kekeli women are learning a new…

Meet Chiara, one of our newest RHC volunteers!

Chiara Del Giudice is a Labor and Delivery nurse at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She was born in Trieste, Italy and has traveled widely. Our trip to Ghana this June will be her first time in Africa. Upon earning her bachelors degree in psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign she went…

Baby Shower for Ghana: We Want Your Babies!

So, at RHC we know that most baby showers celebrate a new expected child in someone’s life. Our idea of an RHC baby shower is slightly different. We are asking you to come join us for the first ever RHC Baby Shower Fundraiser and bring us your babies! While real life babies are more than welcome,…

The Meetings Go On

Despite our silence from time to time on our RHC Blog, the work does go on. Recently, on March 14th, the Kekeli women came together for their first training of 2014. They discussed the importance of vaccination, pneumonia prevention, and blood pressure management. We are also welcoming a new Kekeli woman into our group. Replacing…