GHEI recruiting Education Program Coordinator for 2010 - 2011

Education Program Coordinator / March 2010 to March 2011

Ghana Health and Education Initiative is currently recruiting for a Education Program Coordinator (March 2010 - March 2011). Applicants should have an undergraduate degree and some previous experience in education/teaching. Please see Program Coordinator Info document on the "Work With Us" page of our web site for more details, or contact GHEI's Recruitment Officer at ilona@ghei.org.

GHEI recruiting Health Program Coordinator for 2010 - 2011

Health Program Coordinator / January 2010 to February 2011

Ghana Health and Education Initiative is currently recruiting for a Health Program Coordinator (January 2010 - February 2011). Applicants should have an undergraduate degree and some previous experience in public health/reproductive health/development work. Please see Program Coordinator Info document on the "Work With Us" page of our web site for more details, or contact GHEI's Recruitment Officer at ilona@ghei.org.

Previous Health and Education Coordinators run for GHEI

Previous Health and Education Coordinators Ilona and Luke recently ran the Madrid marathon to raise funds for GHEI. Having nearly reached the £2,000 mark, can you help them get over the line? See their fund raising page at www.justgiving.com/ghei

Katrina Ortblad awarded the Dickey Center Dartmouth Class of 1954 Award

Katrina Ortblad, an intern with GHEI's malaria program this winter, has been awarded the Dickey Center Dartmouth Class of 1954 Award for her work with GHEI in Ghana. Congrats to Katrina!

First GHEI Summer Read and Play program a success.

Friends,

We are really happy to report that the first ever, GHEI Summer Read and Play program was a huge success.

We worked with 40 kids from the local public schools. They're all first graders, but age varies greatly here because schooling starts whenever parents decide (or can afford) to send their child to school. The program ran in two sessions. Mornings were from 8-10:30 and afternoons ran from 2:00-4:30. Marielle Chamas ran the morning session, which also served as a model for "Happy" Enock Abeyie Nkrumah, who ran the afternoon session. Our days included Table Activities, Read Aloud, Songs and Poems, Learn Together, Snack, Word Work (Fundations) and Choice Time. Many of the kids had never held a book before. Everything we did with them was invaluable, and they loved it. They are so attentive and eager to learn. We read books, learned songs, danced, played, drew pictures and colored. We even had 10 Giant African Snails as class pets.

Summer Read and Play is just the beginning. We are going to continue working with the kids through the school year and follow them up through the years.

Warm Regards,

Happy and Marielle
GHEI Education Program Coordinators

See more photos here: Summer Read and Play Program Slideshow

G.I.S. mapping of Humjibre, Ghana has been completed.

Humjibre, Ghana - This Geographic Information Systems map will be invaluable to our monitoring and evaluation efforts. Once again, we thank Julius Pasay and Matt Alie for their service to GHEI and the Humjibre community.

Consultants help G.H.E.I. map the Humjibre community.

Humjibre, Ghana - Julius Pasay and Matt Alie arrived in Ghana in February to work with GHEI as Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) Consulting Interns for two months. While they map Humjibre and collect baseline data, they are teaching our staff how to conduct future GIS studies and work with GIS databases. These skills are invaluable to our monitoring and evaluation efforts. We thank Julius and Matt for their service to GHEI and the Humjibre community.

G.H.E.I. Welcomes Albert Danquah, National Service Teacher

Humjibre, Ghana - GHEI would like to welcome Albert Danquah, our new National Service Teacher. Albert attended polytechnic college in Tamale (in northern Ghana) where he studied management. After completing tertiary education in Ghana, all Ghanaians are required to serve Ghana through selected schools, NGO's or other capacities for one year. In recognition of GHEI's valuable community work, the Ghanaian government has posted individuals to work with us since 2005. To learn more about the Ghanaian National Service Scheme, see www.nssghana.org.

G.H.E.I. receives generous donation from Wilson Language

Oxford, MA - Marielle Chamas, GHEI's new Education Program Coordinator has been given the following from Wilson Language:

Foundations Multi-level kit ($785.00)
Student durable 10-pack level K ($269.00)
Student durable 10-pack level 1 ($339.00)
Student durable 10-pack level 2 ($339.00)
Wilson Reading System Deluxe Set ($459.00)

GHEI and the community of Humjibre, Ghana thank Wilson Language for their extreme generosity.

G.H.E.I. Library gets 3000 new books from Books for Africa

Thanks to coordination by Stan Wang, a 2008 Summer Serve and Learn volunteer and Books for Africa, GHEI has welcomed the addition of more than 3,000 new books to our library.