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  • Johanna Twiford: Angelina’s Smile

    Angelina comes running up after school yelling ‘Sister Johanna, Sister Johanna!”. I smile and can’t help laugh as she looks up at me in her faded school dress. She smiles the biggest smile you’ve ever seen and grabs a stack of nets to carry on her head to help. We’re in the middle of a
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  • Weekly Awesome: Ghana’s Big Plans for World Malaria Day 2013

    How can we get better? How can we involve more Peace Corps Volunteers this year? What is our plan for World Malaria Day 2013? These are questions SWAT (Standing With Africa to Terminate) Malaria Team asked during the August 2012 meeting. It came down to the basics- mobilize all PCVs, regardless of sector, to execute
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  • Weekly Awesome Ghana: Team Ghana Goes to the Field

    Does two weeks in the hot sun swatting away pesky flies, tunneling your way through thick fields of millet and praying your fragile grasp of the local language is enough to get you from Point A to Point B sound like an amazing time? For Ghana PCVs it does! For the last year and half,
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  • Weekly Awesome Ghana: March 2013 Camp Opportunity

    Camp Opportunity took place from February 24th to March 1st in the Upper West Region in Ghana.  36 exemplary girls from junior high school level attended the camp. The goal of the camp was to provide education on vocations, alternative livelihood projects/food security, health and diversity.  It also provided training in leadership and changing gender
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  • Weekly Awesome Ghana: NightWatch PSA Campaign

    The scratchy pitch of the radio still dominates in small communities across Ghana and the developing world.  Men lay on thatched mats listening to the radio in an attempt to escape the stifling heat and humidity, the youth dance rhythmically to Hip Hop and Hiplife beats, and women listen patiently while they wait for customers
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  • Weekly Awesome: Ghana Team at Stomp Out Malaria Boot Camp VI

    Malaria plagues the African continent even though this ancient disease is completely preventable, treatable, and curable. It continues to thrive within the expanses of sub-Saharan Africa and permeates the essence of tropical West Africa. There are a host of explanations for the disease’s virulence and complexity, and through years of rigorous science, we have unlocked
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  • SWAT Malaria Gaining Momemtum and Stride

    Where do you see it going? That was the question four SWAT Team members pondered while perched around a table in August before the most recent SWAT Team training.  One by one ideas began presenting themselves.  Original Research.  Collaborations with local partners. Mass Media Advertisement Campaigns.  100% participation amongst PCVs in malaria control.  As the ideas kept coming, it became
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  • SWAT’s Evaluation of Evaluating Trainings

    By Hannah Braun The first regional representative training occurred in early August at the Peace Corps Kumasi sub-office. One of the many topics in the two full days of training was the importance of monitoring and evaluation.  SWAT leading by example decided to evaluate if any and how much knowledge was gained at the training.
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  • Cerebral Malaria Inspires PCV to Take Action in Ghana

    By Terrie Schweitzer My counterpart, Stephen Sah Kwame, and his wife, Veronica, had been at the hospital for a couple of days. This time, when I stopped by, Stephen took me back to the ward to see their son, 15-year-old Kwasi. Every day they had told me, “Oh, he is better!” I wasn’t prepared for
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  • Upper West Region Malaria Education

    The SWAT bucket, a toolkit for malaria education, has been traveling across the Upper West Region of Ghana.  It stopped in my small farming village in mid September. First the facilitator’s malaria pictures were taken to the Primary school where over 200 smiling faces raised their hands proudly to share their knowledge about malaria prevention. 
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