Wyman Worldwide Health Partners
WWHPS in Action: CCHIPs in Rwanda
Selected Readings
  • Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
    by Dambisa Moyo

    Recommended by: Ro

This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
who know what it means to share foot and shelter
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past bringing people to communion.
            
This is a call to the never ending spirit of the common man,             
His essential decency and integrity,    
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,  
To face death and destruction and to rise again        
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people.

 

From: Algernon D. Black, former senior leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture

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Congratulations to Ro Wyman and CCHIPs for receiving

Community Engagement & Empowerment

To increase health center usage and improve community health by involving local communities in health center operations

A group of CHWs at Shingiro Health Center learn how to plant a kitchen garden, to demonstrate in their communities.

Health centers are the entry point to the formal healthcare system and the link between community members and the district hospitals. Essential to their success is their ability to integrate the local communities into health center operations and use Community Health Workers (CHWs) in this effort. CHWs are volunteers that help provide basic health care and refer community members to the health center. There are 4 per village. CCHIPs works with the health center staff to:

1. Define the roles and responsibilities of existing CHWs, and conduct monthly/quarterly trainings for them along with existing Traditional Healers and Local Authorities

2. Use existing CHWs to coordinate regular community visits and to develop a patient follow-up system within the community

3. Assist in the implementation of Ministry of Health community initiatives and programs

4. Educate the local community on health issues and promote health center usage through Mutuelle (national health insurance) subscription and other promotional tools

Red and Yellow children, and promoting Kitchen Gardens for the poorest families. Currently transitioning educations to be the responsibility of Community Health Workers. (Color based on a Ministry of Health weight-for-age scale.)

Read more about projects in the Community Engagement & Empowerment Element!

Celestin presents findings from the community survey (conducted by CHWs) to CHWs at Shingiro Health Center.