With only one week left before departure, we had hoped that we’d be packing up all our gear by now. We are woefully behind schedule. Because a number of items in the solar suitcase are custom made for our medical missions, this project requires the efforts coordination of a great many people and [...]
On the last day of 2010, we received a request for a solar suitcase from a small foundation that fell in love with a small community in Kenya. The Kolunga Village Foundation, based in Mendocino County, California, had funded and built a medical clinic that provides prenatal and post-natal care, family planning, and care [...]
In March, three WE CARE Solar staff will be heading to Liberia armed with solar panels, solar electric equipment and educational material to train health care workers on off-grid solar electricity. The goal? To equip 18 clinics with WE CARE Solar Suitcases and to train a fleet of health care workers in the basics of [...]
Two of my favorite people in the world joined forces in December to check on clinic solar suitcases in Northern Nigeria. UCSF Midwife Sharon Wiener flew to Nigeria to continue her fabulous work to bring “Centering Pregnancy” to rural women in need of prenatal care. In mid-2010, she began teaching Nigerian health care workers about [...]
In the last month, we’ve sent solar suitcases to three continents! Villanova Students from Philadelphia brought a suitcase to a health promotor in Nicaragua in May. Next, WE CARE Solar volunteer Irene Abagi brought a solar suitcase to a hospital in Kenya. And, the same week we sent three solar suitcases with photographer Gloria [...]
I haven’t had a regular source of access to the internet so I apologize for the lack of updates.
I arrived in Nigeria after a brief stop in Italy, where Renaissance artwork depicting night life by candlelight and women who died in childbirth reminded me that until the last century the issues WE CARE Solar [...]
