The Miracle Baby
Trekking for Trouble San Sebastián Coatán is a rural area nestled in the Guatemalan highlands and a full day’s travel from the “neighboring” city of Queztaltenango. To get there, every week Doctor Mario takes a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride from Quezaltenango, and then treks another six hours before arriving on a [...]
Triangle Nonprofit Completes First Global Volunteer Trip Since Pandemic Halted Travel in 2020
WakeMed Labor and Delivery nurses traveled to Guatemala to teach and train female, community workers who treat expectant mothers without access to healthcare Raleigh-based Impact Global Health Alliance Global has just returned from its first volunteer trip in two years. The COVID-19 pandemic halted the global health nonprofit’s service trips [...]
More than Just a Number: How Community Health Workers are Supporting North Carolina’s Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 and Why We Must Continue to Invest in Them
Op-Ed by Andrew Herrera - November 2021 For 20 straight months, we have heard and read more numbers than we comprehend about underserved communities across North Carolina and how they have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May and June 2020 alone, Latinx communities represented 44 percent of [...]
Impact Global Health Alliance Global and Local Health Workers Impact the Lives of 163K People in Underserved Communities Through Alliance with State of North Carolina, Focus on Vaccinations
Raleigh-based global health non-profit will continue working with Community Health Workers to reach families still facing inequities as the pandemic continues After a nearly year-long partnership, Impact Global Health Alliance Global, a non-profit based in Raleigh, that partners with underserved communities around the world to make measurable and sustainable improvements [...]
