Empowering Women Through Literacy in the Slums of Uganda
The Bwaise zone has an HIV/AIDS prevalence of 10%, including 103 children under the age of 15. Bwaise is a dark place, to say the least...
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Leafa Vagatai
Dec 7, 20112 min read
Certified Midwife and Development Worker Visits GOD Community, speaks at Institute Chapel.
Recently, Vickie Penwell, founder of Mercy in Action, spoke to 25 doulas, midwives, childbirth educators, and volunteers at G.O.D. Int’...
Deb Nava
Oct 19, 20112 min read
Maternal Health: Risk for Rural Indian Women
The northern state of Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in all of
India, with a staggering maternal mortality rate of 440 deat...
Jordan Miller
Sep 9, 20112 min read
Plight of Young Girls in Uganda
In East Africa, one does not have to look far to recognize that women continue to endure oppression. According to the World Health Org...
Elise Buckner Gerard
Jul 29, 20113 min read
Beyond Maternal Care: Essential Education is Necessary
Elise Buckner spent 12 weeks interning with a local midwife in El Salvador. In this article she reflects on needs that go beyond prena...
Brynn Buchanan
Jun 15, 20112 min read
Supporting Refugee Women in Birth
In the spring of 2010, the Institute for G.O.D. Int’l started a Childbirth Education (CBE) certification program.
Celesta Bargatze
Feb 19, 20113 min read
Meeting Health Care Needs Together (American and Kenyan)
Celesta Bargatze writes a personal reflection about the overwhelming health care needs that exist in East Africa.
Cannon Cameron
Dec 2, 20103 min read
Where Education Meets Practice: A Subculture of Better Birth
There is a passion in our organization to participate in the redemption of the childbirth process; by this we mean taking the life-giv...
Megan Fleeman
Aug 1, 20102 min read
The Crossroads of Education and Experience: Childbirth Education in East Africa
As a student at our Institute's Childbirth Education Program, I was eager to practice the knowledge and
skills I have gained in the c...
Megan Fleeman
Jul 31, 20102 min read
The Burden of Traditional Birth Attendants in East Africa
Since long before hospitals were in existence, women in East Africa having been giving birth with the assistance of caring and experie...
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