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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…

Portland Fundraiser- Great Success! Get ready for the SD fundraiser!

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…

Welcome to the new RHC web-site!

Over the past several months we have been hard at work on a new web-site. To be more accurate, our partner Sergio Salgado of Furnace Creative has been doing the heavy lifting. We are pretty excited with what he has come up with! We believe our most important work is done by our partners in…

2011 RHC Year End Newsletter

The end of 2011 marks our first year of programs at RHC and we are proud to report that the 20 Kekeli women who were trained in January continue to do great work! We have completed our end of the year newsletter which can be found at the below link. Click here to access our…

Bicycles and Goodbyes – Post #3

We have spent a good portion of our time in Ghana visiting each of the women in their 20 different villages. We were told this couldn’t be done in 2 weeks time, as many live in remote places, but alas, it has been completed! It was very important to us to follow up with the…

Official Name Change

Over the past several months we have been contemplating changing our name. In our latest newsletter we wrote this: —————————- Since returning from Ghana we have been throwing around the idea of changing the name of the Rural Development Project. At the heart of our thinking is the notion that our goal is not to…

Kekeli T-shirts are here!

Through a generous donation from a local screen-printing shop as well as other friends, we now have Kekeli t-shirts! They are the same color and style as the shirts worn by the previous two Kekeli health promoter classes in the North and South Tongu districts, the second of which Olivia helped teach. The idea behind…

HIV/AIDS in Ghana

An article from February 2009 featured in myjoyonline.com describes recent efforts in Ghana regarding HIV/AIDS, including efforts by the government to coordinate programs between state and district governments as well as NGOs responding to the need for services throughout Ghana. The article also reports on a study conducted in late 2008 targeting lack of education…

Kekeli VHW Program

Kekeli means “brightness” in Ewe, the local language of east Ghana. It is also the name of a community teaching program in the North Tongu District organized by our partner, Seva Clinic. This is the same teaching program Olivia worked on during her months in Ghana in 2007. As our trip approaches, we have been…

Payment for Health Workers

Something we at RDP have been batting around the last year or so is the issue of payment for health workers. As we embark upon our first official VHW training program, we will not be providing the new trainees with a monthly stipend. At this time the funds are not available and the job description…