Interview with Pinaki Halder (Landesa)
Landesa helps families in India gain legal control over their land. Supporting women to lead the digital land records documentation work has been a breakthrough strategy. Pinaki Halder of Landesa spoke with Jessica Kantor on February 8, 2023. Click here to read the full conversation with insights highlighted. Jessica Kantor: Could you start by introducing […]
Interview with Shwetha Kamath and Geetika Tondon-Higgins (Educate Girls)
Educate Girls has helped more than 1 million girls in India enroll or re-enroll in school. Their work in girls education includes connecting girls with learning camps, exam preparation, local mentorship, and better employment opportunities. Shwetha Kamath and Geetika Tondon-Higgins of Educate Girls spoke with Priyanka Shankar on February 14, 2023. Click here to read […]
State program gives inmates their voice back
In New Mexico, the Peer Education Project is giving incarcerated individuals the opportunity to teach their peers. The program – a collaboration between Project ECHO and the New Mexico Corrections Department – has employed around 600 inmates as educators on various health topics, including interpersonal relationships, harm reduction, and the spreading of germs. Underlying this […]
Online learning is helping to solve Namibia’s HIV doctor shortage
Providing access to international networks of expertise can improve the quality of healthcare available to those living in rural and remote areas. Project ECHO, an initiative based in New Mexico, has partnered with the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services to provide rural health care workers, doctors, and nurses with video-teleconferences with HIV specialists. […]
Myanmar’s Smart Farmers & Saving Mozambique’s Forests
The effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and hotter global temperatures, are already having drastic impact on many communities, especially the rural, agricultural regions of countries such as Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Mozambique. Earthrise explores how smart farmers in these communities are learning new skills, implementing new techniques, and are striving in […]
Rwanda’s Model: Progress, With More Work Ahead
Enrolling local agents allows global partners to connect underserved and remote communities to healthcare. A partnership between Rwanda’s Health Ministry and the Boston-based nonprofit, Partners in Health, trains community-based health workers to communicate and connect people on the ground to health services across the country. Rwanda has also implemented reforms and services such as government-subsided […]
Neighbors on call to help care for one another
Although Haiti and Montana appear to be vastly different places, they have a few important things in common; they are geographically rural, they both face high rates of mental illness and a shortage of mental health care workers, and they are both combatting this problem by utilizing Community Health Workers. These workers regularly visit people […]
The Brave Young Doctors of Sierra Leone
King’s Partnership and Partners in Health are outliers in the global health community in focusing on the mentorship of Sierra Leone’s next generation of doctors. The country has a profound need for more medical experts. See other articles and interviews with Partners in Health.
The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves
Founded in the 1990s, the New Teacher Center offers an education innovation in the form of a promising mentor model for new teachers. In an effort to measure the program’s effectiveness and see if it impacts teacher retention, the 74 followed two participating teachers in a high-needs school in the South Bronx for one year. […]
Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil
The United States can outsource certain kinds of “microwork,” such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations, like Digital Divide Data, are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in […]