Health Education

The Tanzania Sanitation Project

ksimon — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:05:26 -0500

Poor environmental sanitation is a predominant issue in today’s developing world. Tanzania is one of the countless countries lacking awareness regarding the significance of environmental cleanliness. One of the more crucial and impacting consequences of this lack of knowledge involves the unsafe and inappropriate disposal of solid waste, which has created considerable health problems and very unpleasant living conditions in countless countries.

Pujehun Youth Center for Peace and Wellness

esnowak — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:11:19 -0500

We are working for three months to build a Youth Center for Peace and Wellness in Pujehun, Sierra Leone. The community has been greatly affected by the country's ten-year civil war, and one of the groups most impacted has been the youth in the area. School dropouts, teenage pregnancies, violence, and sexually transmitted diseases are just some of the issues with which we are working. At the same time, there are countless cultural and traditional elements of the community that reveal its beauty and strength in the face of these challenges.

Project Safe

helen.fassil — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:55:54 -0600

Project SAFE is a multidisciplinary effort to test whether brief motivational interviewing in an emergency department setting may encourage change in sex behaviors and thus prevent gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV among male and female patients aged 18-44 years who use heroin and/or crack/cocaine and are not in treatment. The brief motivation interview is designed to facilitate a conversation to illicit a self-determined commitment to changes in behavior by intravenous drug users to reduce the individual's risk for contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Ashraya Initiative for Children - Health Outreach Program

aickids — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:49:50 -0500

The Ashraya Initiative for Children (AIC) began in early 2004 as a small group of concerned, dedicated college students—friends working toward a better life for street children in Pune, India. Since the arrival of the first three children in June 2005, it has grown to house nine children in the residential program, and serve an additional twelve girls in its educational outreach program.