Notes from the Field #1:
An initial study of the medical lore and practices of extremely poor people in Chennai, India. In spite of the fact that they live in a modern country where the highest level of medical care is available, these people cannot access it.
#1 Notes from the Field: The Slum Dwellers of Chennai: Indigenous Health Practices
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#4 Notes from the Field: Gender Study in Kingantoko and Surrounding Area
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Notes from the Field #4:
Charlotte Ndona and the Susila Dharma DR Congo team studied the forces that shape the lives of women in seven villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These included the constraints put on them by a lack of education, early and frequent pregnancy and the long distance each one has to walk to to carry water, food and firewood back to their families every day. They studied the social pressures on, the cultural economic situation and legal status of, and the choices available to these women.
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Charlotte Ndona and the Susila Dharma DR Congo team studied the forces that shape the lives of women in seven villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These included the constraints put on them by a lack of education, early and frequent pregnancy and the long distance each one has to walk to to carry water, food and firewood back to their families every day. They studied the social pressures on, the cultural economic situation and legal status of, and the choices available to these women.
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2007 - Asociación Vivir: A French Woman in Ecuador
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Mathilde Dybowsky spent five weeks volunteering at Asociación Vivir in Ecuador during the summer of 2007.
2008 - A Community Guide to Environmental Health
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Training and Capacity Building
A comprehensive, illustrated guide for activists, community leaders, development workers, and health promoters with examples, "how-to" plans, and background information on a wide range of environmental issues affecting people in both village and urban settings.
2009.04 - Lessons from Doctors without Borders
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In January 2009 Lusijah Marx, Luther Schutz, and Wendy Neal traveled to the South African township of Khayelitsha to learn from the experience of Doctors without Borders in creating the most effective and efficient use of human resources to deliver quality health care to empoverished victims of HIV/AIDS
2009.07 - Remembering a Call to Prayer
“…[in] a room full of land mine accident survivors, it came back to me: The
long mournful Call to Prayer from my Subud brother Salahin Thom, ‘Allahu Akbar.’
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”