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You can skype me at alanna.shaikh
Or you can find me on twitter: @alanna_shaikh
Your NTD annoyance
Right you are. You will have a list though For brevity’s sake, may we segue on to prioritise. The Nigeria list, when I was there, – 2007, might begin with malaria, cholera would follow quickly, CDC used to publish it all. De-hydration and, not always, ‘local medical practice’ (especially on ailing children/infants) would seriously figure.
Diagnosis at base level
If there are diagnostic problems, which there are, with the typical examples, what chance for your list? Often testing/analysis equipment or specialists, and their essential prerequisites are not to hand.
Reporting
Of the highly contagious diseases, I remember cholera. On a trip (vol NGO work) I went to a riverine area, towns surrounded by swamp. Towns, in our terms, surrounded by small hamlets of bamboo and palm frond. Pleasant African countryside, in the dry season. Rains and aquifers levels bring silent death. These three villages were decimated by cholera, and/or by mass fearful exodus by the fishing communities that populated them as the disease hit. I saw the events happen, over time. I reported to the State Government, of course there is a system, but it was chaotic, that was the system.
Education and Empowerment
Knowledge, methodology, aid funds, equipment – pass them into local hands, when appropriate. If monitoring is the task fine, often I have seen NGO efforts seeking to take over tasks the Gov. has to do, sooner or later.
I have volunteered for Mr Save the World and his Foundation in Africa. I just laugh now, I choke I really do.
I have touched on ‘humility’ or ‘humanity’ ‘compassion. HHC submission I shall offer by and by
You have a very pleasant approach, are caring and …. I like it.
Bye and best rgds
(Peter) Dick, Peterborough UK
16dec12
Hi there!
I’m loving you blog 🙂
Do you accept guest-writers?
I’m currently doing an internship / volunteer work for Mano a Mano Bolivia (manoamanobolivia.org), a local nonprofit here in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
I’m looking for ways to expand our North-American awareness, and looking for blogs that would accept a piece about our work, so as to attract a larger audience to our website, and perhaps get some individual donors to give to some of our projects via our website (we recently lost one of our largest donors and so are in desperate need for some help.)
The tone of the article would be educational in that, unlike most nonprofits and NGOs, we work hand in hand with local communities and municipalities to create sustainable and efficient projects in health and education infrastructure.
This piece would also raise awareness about Bolivia as a country, as most people are unaware of the state of poverty that this beautiful land is in.
Please let me know if you can help / share resources, tips, advice etc, as I am a bit of a novice at this.
Thank you so much for your support!!
— Alix
Alix – I don’t use guest posters. But thanks for thinking of me.
I recently returned to the US after serving for 2 years in the Peace Corps on a remote Pacific Island. The experience redefined my career pursuits and I am now applying for international development jobs to get more experience on the office side of things. My time in the field, while meaningful, also gave me a healthy skepticism for aid and development work (which is, ironically, why I want to get involved). I saw a lot of organizations who had good intentions but their work proved ineffective and even detrimental to the community in the long run. Do you have any advice about how to educate myself on the companies and organizations that really are doing good work and consciously trying to fail forward?
Thank you so much for your time.
Just saw your recent TED talk. Thank you for your courage to speak and your ideas. Both my parents died from complications of dementia–Alzheimers and Lewy Body. Am waiting to see about myself–don’t want to test for the markers. But am taking in as much of life as I can. Life is difficult enough without thinking about things passed on to us. Thank you again. Good holidays.
Elise Baranowski
I just wanted to tell you I watched you Alzheimer’s talk today. My father, though not an educator, had an extremely gifted level IQ. As a result,he was able to hide the disease progress for a very long time. My mother did not feel the need to share with me that his maother also died from the disease. Had I known earlier we could have done so much more for him. I have been doing all that I was told to d: get rid of all aluminum in food prep tools, and learn constantly. I had not heard much of what you shared. I have 3 daughters and 4 grandchildren. I hope and pray no one else gets it. I am now older than my dad was when he started. I also have a husband who had a minor TBI 6 years ago who is starting to have some memory loss. I’m not sure why we have this awful disease. It makes me so scared.