When we sat down to revisit the direction of Rural Health Collaborative a few years ago, we recommitted to our vision of ‘investing in women’ as foundational to our work. The avenue we have taken for this is through health, by providing opportunities for women to be community health promoters. When the nursing students from…
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Introducing a Blood Pressure Screening Program
The Kekeli Women have been asking us about this for years. We’ve thought it would be a good idea. We’ve wanted to make it happen. We just had to figure out how to make it work. This May, in collaboration with nursing students from Point Loma Nazarene University (alma mater to the entire RHC executive…
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Introducing the newest Kekeli Women!
This past November we trained 18 new Kekeli Women (our third group!) to promote health, monitor pregnant women, and organize for health in their communities. It is always fun to see the new faces, meet the new personalities, and watch the old and new women come together. There are now 47 Kekeli Women representing 47…
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What is Kekeli?
Kekeli Women are a group of women trained as community health promoters, taking education they have received through formal training to improve health in their own communities. Kekeli means brightness in Ewe, the local language that is spoken in the Volta Region where we work. This is in addition to English, the national language. I…
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