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Haiti: Darbonne
Goat Project
Haiti:
La Gonâve Project
Anglophone
and Francophone Africa Trainings
Tamil
Nadu, India
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LEAP
The
Leadership, Empowerment, Action, and Health Promotion
Program promotes healthy decision-making for adolescent
females in the Atlanta area. The program was established
in 2003 and is funded by the Atlanta Women’s Foundation
and the Rich Foundation. In its current format, the
program runs for two or three months. Global Health
Action volunteers and staff teach weekly lessons to
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local
schools or at local organizations such as Refugee Family
Services of Atlanta. Course topics include nutrition,
communication, self-efficacy, body-image, peer pressure,
self-awareness, leadership, puberty, and goal-setting.
Girls in the program engage in many activities—ranging
from role-playing to participating in discussions, learning
dances and teambuilding activities. At the end of the
program, the girls identify a critical area of need within
their community and complete a project to address this
need.
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| Haiti:
Darbonne Goat Project Darbonne
is a coastal town about 18 miles west of Port-au-Prince.
It takes approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes to travel
there by car. The Darbonne Goat Project began in 1985
and continues to improve the lives of poor Haitian families.
Every month, 20 subsistence farmers are trained in goat
care and husbandry (approximately 240 farmers per year).
Upon graduation from the training, each farmer receives
a pregnant goat to begin his own small herd.
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The
goats are used primarily as sources of dietary protein
and income. The offspring bring $75 at the market, as
opposed to the standard $50, because they are crossbred
with one of GHA’s purebred Kiko or Boer bucks. When
the farmer is able, he returns one goat back to the GHA
Goat Project Center. The returned goats are either given
to other farmers when they complete the training or sold
to support local programming needs, such as small repairs
of the Darbonne goat center. Over the past 21 years, the
GHA Haitian Goat Project has trained more than 2,500 farmers.
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| Haiti:
La Gonâve
La
Gonâve is an island in Haiti located to the west-northwest
of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. GHA partners
with the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta (PGA) on two
projects there: the Safe Motherhood Project and the
Goat Project. The Safe Motherhood Project seeks to improve
the health and nutrition of mothers and their children
through a number of initiatives. One aspect of this
project is the training of Community Health Workers
(CHW). To date, 20 CHW have been trained and are working
on the island of La Gonâve.
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These
CHW focus on primary healthcare, childhood malnutrition,
and the promotion of safe maternal and child health
practices. They are the link between their communities
and the local clinic, the Bill Rice Community Center.
GHA has been contracted by the PGA to train these CHW
in primary healthcare, family planning, and nutrition.
GHA provides technical support for the La Gonâve
Goat Project as well. This project aims to relieve the
poverty and under-nutrition of local farmers and their
families by providing them with a goat, which can be
bred to produce offspring for additional income and
food. Each month approximately 6 goat farmers are trained
in goat husbandry and care for 2 days. At the completion
of the training, they each receive a pregnant goat.
When the farmers are able, they must give one goat kid
back to the project. This project is modeled after the
GHA Goat Project in Darbonne.
GHA does not fundraise for these projects. It is contracted
through PGA to provide technical support as needed.
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Anglophone
and Francophone Africa:
Design, Management and Evaluation of Community Based HIV/AIDS
Programs (DME) Course In
response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, GHA developed
a course for health professionals working in HIV/AIDS.
The course provides these professionals with the skills
required to plan, implement, and evaluate HIV/AIDS-related
projects. Courses are tailored to the existing knowledge
and needs of participants and focus on the
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following
topics: leadership, management, program planning, program
evaluation, and proposal writing. The course consists
of an intensive 6-day training followed six months later
by a 4-day training. During the period between the two
trainings, participants receive technical assistance from
GHA headquarters and submit seed grant proposals. One
or two participants are selected as recipients of a $5,000
seed grant each year based on the quality and merit of
the proposals they submit. Each seed grant lasts one year.
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Sujatha
de Magry
Tamil Nadu, India
Sujatha
de Magry graduated from Global Health Action's (GHA)
International Health Management Course (IHMC) in 1975.
Magry
said it has been her work through GHA's second generation
organization, INSA/India, that led her to a 1989 AIDS
conference in Nashville, Tenn. "In 1990, very few
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By
1992, Magry with the help of GHA started one of India's
first HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs.
The
group's initial concern was with teenage students. With
the eight-grade students the group would discuss hygiene
and substance abuse. With the ninth- and tenth-graders,
the group would discuss in more detail reproductive
health, drug abuse, AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases.
To
date, the organization has reached more than 1 million
men, women and youth. HIV/AIDS information is now included
in INSA/India's health care programs in various youth
and women's clubs, and the group has included HIV/AIDS
information in its training of health care workers.
Public
awareness of AIDS has been slow going in India. A conservative
government limits the amount of information that is
distributed to the population.
Magry
believes that in order to combat the AIDS crisis in
India a widespread movement is needed. As part of this
effort, Magry has held seminars for many of India's
Hindu, Muslim and Christian leaders. She is committed
to helping her people become more educated on the disease
and ways they can prevent it from spreading.
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