Stories

2010 Global Maternal Health Conference in India

I just returned from a brief trip to New Delhi India, where I attended the 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference, organized by the Maternal Health Task Force, Engender Health and the Public Health Foundation of India. 500 maternal health leaders

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Solar Suitcases spreading light around the world

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

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Update from Nigeria

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

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Another Haiti

On Monday, we flew to Jeremie, a coastal town to the West of Port-au-Prince that would have required a full-day of travel by car. The small plane took off, and soon we remembered that we were on a tropical island.

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WE CARE Solar, Haiti style

I’m unable to upload pictures of Haiti from my hotel, but I wish I could share some of the scenes we encounter. Clusters of neatly uniformed school children heading to school with a back drop of rubble and destruction, public

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Time, Patience and Hope

We arrived on Thursday morning in Port-au-Prince and were struck by the overwhelming heat, poverty, and destruction. As we drive through the city of Port-au-Prince we see piles of rubble where homes once stood, other structures damaged beyond repair, and

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WE CARE Solar becomes 2010 GSVC Winner!

We are thrilled to announce that we are winners of the 2010 Global Social Venture Competition – Social Impact Assessment Competition. Our team was led by Abhay Nihalani, a talented 2nd year MBA-MPH student at Haas Business School, and included

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Being There

One of my great joys in directing WE CARE Solar is getting to combine the talents of so many wonderful volunteers. The list of dedicated souls grows each week, and we now boast a magnificent line-up of engineers, health providers,

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Lighting up births in Haiti

One of our suitcases went to the Haitian Health Foundation, a non-profit serving over 100 mountain villages near Jeremie, Haiti. They are using the solar suitcase to provide overhead and mobile lighting for childbirth, and sent us pictures and a

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