On Friday, November 30th, the Rural Health Collaborative hosted our second annual Portland fundraiser and it was a great success! We would like to thank everyone who took the time to be a part of it. Over 50 people were in attendance and in high spirits. The biggest prizes included a home-cooked Puerto-Rican dinner for 6…
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Water.org: Tackling Death & Toilets
3.4 million people die from water related disease each year – equivalent to the size of the city of Los Angeles. Some of those people live in the district where we work. ———————– When we began our first Kekeli Village Health Promoter Program in January of 2011 we started the first day of class with…
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Tiyatien Health – A model that moves and inspires
I came across an organization today that inspired me. It’s called Tiyatien Health and it is based in Liberia. Formed in response to the death of 12 women suffering from AIDS in a rural village in Liberia, it has moved mountains to train local people to be health workers and bring care to those in…
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Give for Ghana Fundraiser – Join us Nov. 30th in Portland!
Come one, come all! We are having a fundraiser to support our projects that will be taking place in Akatsi, Ghana, in January 2013! The fundraiser will be in Northwest Portland, OR, at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall on November 30th. Drop by anytime between 6 and 10pm. 100% of the donations received will go…
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