Archive: 2013

By: Gemma Bulos, Director, Global Women’s Water Initiative At Amuria High School in Uganda, even though female students live at the school as boarders, perfect attendance is not guaranteed. Girl children are required to fetch water during school hours…

By: Marni Sommer, Executive Director, Grow & Know, Inc.; Susie Connolly, Team Leader for Cambodia, Grow & Know, Inc. The onset of menstruation indicates the passage from girlhood to womanhood in societies around the world. In many low-income…

By: Charles Banda, Executive Director, Freshwater Malawi Imagine giving birth, or watching a loved one give birth, in a mud-floored hut without access to clean water or a basic latrine. This is the reality for millions of women in Malawi and other…

By: Ashley Holmer, Founder and Executive Director, Red Sweater Project It seems in the developed world we are consistently debating what is the best health care system: public versus private, access versus quality, confidentiality versus national reform…

The second cohort of MHTF’s Young Champions of Maternal Health arrived at the project sites a few weeks ago, and since then, they have been busy, not only getting settled  – and getting to work – in their new positions, but also…

By: Jordan Teague, Research Assistant, WASH Advocates When I arrived in the village of Bogu in the Northern Region of Ghana, the first thing I saw was a group of women and girls with metal buckets on their head, walking toward us. They were returning…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Yesterday, Women Deliver opened voting for the 25 top Social Enterprises for Women and Girls.  These 25 organizations are doing some incredible work, and using innovative approaches to address some major challenges…

By: Koronel Mashalla Kema, Program Manager and Technical WASH leader, AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. As an engineer with a public health focus working with the African Medical &…

By: Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects, WASH Advocates This guest post is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for the MHTF blog. Access to clean water is not only one…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” which was co-authored by MHTF Director Ana Langer, along with Lancet Editor Richard Horton, and Guerino Chalamilla, the Executive Director of…