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…
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Reducing Maternal Mortality through Home Based Life Saving Skills Course
Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) is an educational program that trains birth attendants, community health workers, and community members in specific actions aimed at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. The program has been studied in several developing countries where it has been effectively disseminated and has been shown to increase actions to prevent hemorrhage…
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Matching Donations through October 8!
An anonymous (and generous) donor has approached us with an offer to donate up to $1000 of matching donations for the next 48 hours following our Beer for Bikes Fundraiser. Any donations made before midnight on Tuesday, October 8 will be matched dollar for dollar up to $1000. This will help us reach our $10,000…
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Silent Auction and Raffle Items – Beer for Bikes
Below you can read the (growing) list of items that will be up for auction and raffle this Saturday, October 5th at our fundraiser. Check back for updates during the week! Have something to donate? Email us at contact@rhcollaborative.org. Silent Auction Newport Beach house – 4 night stay + 2 one day tickets to Disneyland!…
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RHC Kicks Off Beer for Bikes Annual Fundraising Campaign!
This morning, we are happy to announce our Beer for Bikes 2013 Annual Fundraiser! Our event will take place on October 5th at Base Camp Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon. We are raising money to buy bicycles for the new Community Health Promoters we trained in 2012. We are asking for your help! 1. Join us…
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Ghanaian Doctors Interested in Rural Work
The web-site linked to here describes the increased interest of Ghanaian medical students to work in rural areas of Ghana. According to the article from vibeghana.com, more than half of students are considering postings in these rural regions, many of which are in the north of Ghana, an area in great need of such help.…
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Akatsi District is Making Strides
I have been paying attention to the water and sanitation space in the Akatsi District over the past couple of years – ever since the women we work with told us they wanted toilets in their communities. Recently, there has been some pretty cool developments I wanted to briefly share. A group called Water Services…
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Ghana 2013: One week down, much more to come
Thursday concluded our first week with the Original Kekeli women, as we are coming to call them in order to distinguish from the new group that will begin training Monday. As always it has been wonderful to return and be greeted warmly by the women whom are our friends. We tried out for the first time our Leadership Curriculum,…
Read MoreGhana Time!
After much hard work, dedication and preparation the RHC group has finally made it to Akatsi. Flying in from various cities and states we all met in Accra on Friday night. Between long days of traveling, minimal sleeping, foreign food, and losing some baggage we are excited to get these 3 weeks started! Our first few days were spent…
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The Training Begins – #ghanastyle
2 days ago the RHC team landed in Accra and made the 2 hour journey to the Akatsi District where we work. They are spending their first weekend getting acclimated to the time zone, the temperature, and solidifying the schedule for the 3 weeks they’ll be there. Here’s the general outline for their trip: Tuesday…
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