HEALTHCARE

HEALTHCARE IN POKUASE

Access to healthcare plays a vital role in reducing poverty, and in Pokuase, formal healthcare is provided by very few resources, which is why WomenstTrust has made every effort to provide this critical resource to their clients and other women and families of Pokuase. As an incentive to the women to pay back their loans in full and on time, WomensTrust funds a program giving our loan clients and their dependent children free access to Ghana's new national health insurance plan.

Healthcare - 2010
Magbè Savanè, WomensTrust Healthcare Program Coordinator, returned to Ghana in January with two interns, Alicia Kitchel and Sasha Chait, to continue to implement her Healthy Living Skills Program and perform a healthcare needs assessment in the community. Healthy Living Skills Video.

Healthcare - 2009
WomensTrust appointed a Healthcare Program Coordinator, Magbè Savané, a senior biology major at Colby-Sawyer College (shown at left). She developed a healthcare education tool for WomensTrust that she calls Healthly Living Skills Program, and in January of 2009, Magbè traveled to Pokuase, to implement her new program. And if you wish to get involved in the Healthy Living Skills Program as a volunteer/intern, please download an application.

Healthcare - 2008
Linda Messenger returned to Ghana in January accompanied by Rosemary Theroux and Robin Klar. Student nurse Kristin LaRochelle, from our local Colby-Sawyer College nursing program, joined them, and Sasha Chait coordinated the distribution of Malaria Nets in the Village. Healthcare videos

Healthcare - 2007
President of the New Hampshire Nurse Practioners Association, Linda Messenger, traveled to Ghana to implement a community assessment tool designed by Lea Ayres of Colby-Sawyer College. Linda was joined in August by Robin Klar and Rosemary Theroux of UMass/Worcester's Graduate School of Nursing.