Fayetteville Academy Volunteers in Guatemala
A group of five volunteers from Fayetteville Academy traveled to our project site in rural Guatemala in June to support our partners at Impact Global Health Alliance-Guatemala. After a long journey to arrive, the volunteers got straight to work at a community event to weigh and measure all the children [...]
Fuquay-Varina UMC goes to Guatemala
Thank You to our Summer Volunteers! Two groups from North Carolina traveled many miles to serve the women and children in our project in the rural highlands of Guatemala. These volunteers are a vital part of our mission, providing the extra capacity, innovation, and perspective that keeps our projects running [...]
HIV: The Quiet Invader
Picture it. A microscopic virus worms its way into the body and finds its way into the cells of its newly minted host. It hides quietly, rapidly making copies of itself and its own DNA inside the normal immune cells. It’s working fast, so fast that it isn’t even checking [...]
Duke Nursing Students Without Borders Volunteer in Guatemala
Written by: Barbara Hotelling, Impact Global Health Alliance International Volunteer, and Duke University Clinical Nursing Educator Over spring break 2015, a clinical nurse educator and three Duke nursing students in their fourth semester traveled to rural Guatemala with Impact Global Health Alliance Global to provide health care for mothers and children. The [...]
Giving Back the Right Way
Giving Back the Right Way By Rob Pavone, International Volunteer with Impact Global Health Alliance Global and Engineer at Cisco Rob travelled to Impact Global Health Alliance Global’s project in Bolivia with his father in 2002. Since then he has been back to serve in Bolivia multiple times and also [...]
Improving Maternal and Child Health in Kibera
Written by Florence Amadi, Program Manager - Africa Faith Langat, Tabitha Clinic's Manager at a health education session Over the past two years, Impact Global Health Alliance Global has enjoyed a thriving partnership with Carolina for Kibera (CFK), a Chapel Hill-based nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty and working to provide maternal and [...]
Health for All through Primary Health Care Course
Health for all through Primary Health Care Course Impact Global Health Alliance Global's founder, Dr. Henry B. Perry is holding an online course on Coursera entitled Health for All through Primary Health Care will begin on Wednesday, May 27 and run through July 1. The course runs for 5 weeks. It consists of 1 hour [...]
The 2015 Grassroots Newsletter
The Grassroots Newsletter The publication of Impact Global Health Alliance Global’s 2015 Grassroots newsletter is here ! View the Newsletter to learn about our efforts to improve maternal and child health in Kibera, fight Ebola in Liberia. And most importantly, the recent success of our Guatemala program where we are [...]
Learning to Do Good
Learning to Do Good A few months ago, we received an email out of the blue inviting us to submit a grant proposal to the East Bay Jewish Teen Foundation (EBJTF) and we all wondered who are these generous people who want to support Impact Global Health Alliance Global? After submitting a proposal, we made it to [...]
Thank You For Celebrating With Us!
On April 7th, we celebrated World Health Day with a bang – live music, food, drinks, and a ton of raffle prizes at Kings in downtown Raleigh. A Bang on with great ambiance The night started off with a mixer at King’s bar and finger foods generously donated by [...]
Thinking About A Trip To Guatemala? Read This First!
Where else do you get to climb on ancient ruins? Traveling to Guatemala Volunteers who have traveled with us to Guatemala often say that it was an amazing, life-changing experience. But traveling to a different country can be scary – language barriers, different foods, unfamiliar surroundings. We totally understand that, [...]
What’s On The Menu? Using Positive Deviance to Reduce Child Malnutrition
As Community driven solutions through 'positive deviance approach'. Positive deviance (PD) is a unique approach to global health that we are utilizing in our Guatemala Casas Maternas program, which is generously funded by Ronald McDonald House Charities. A positive deviance analysis focuses on those in a community who have found [...]
