Tag Archives: Africa

Care Challenge Selected projects, Field Trips, Healthcare professionals

Clean delivery kits distributed in Kogo community

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“Save our mothers” is one of the first projects selected by the WeObservatory. Nurse Ibe Chinomso and her Traffina Foundation have since gone a long way from conducting basic educational campaigns to launching now the “Clean Birth Kits” initiative. With the support from the WeObservatory and other partners the  Traffina Foundation is able to provide free delivery kits containing sterile instruments that women require at childbirth. ibe

Recently a field trip to Kobo has been conducted and more Clean Birth Kits were distributed. Here’s a report that Ibe Chinomso made from this trip (pdf) :

FIELD REPORT KOGO COMMUNITY February 2015

Technology and access

Back to basics : internet access and electricity

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To many of us this is not an issue, but it is important that we understand how important is basic access to electricity.

“In third world countries, the more people that have access to electricity, the greater demand will be for using the Internet and other related technologies. It is fruitless, they say, to discuss a digital divide where electricity does not exist”. Read the full article on electricity and internet in third world countries in pdf here.