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WiRED Begins Another Year of Quiet Work
on Prevention

In 2011, thanks to the help and support of volunteers, donors and partners, WiRED expanded its work on illness prevention. We plan to continue growing these programs in 2012. Prevention, though, can be...well, boring. When prevention efforts are successful, the results are not as dramatic or camera-ready as a courageous medical rescue.

 

Prevention and education, though, may be even more critical to sustained public health. We teach people about clean water, good nutrition, sanitary conditions, safe sex and health awareness. So, people avoid cholera and other plagues; they are less likely to get AIDS; they escape or minimize many other illnesses. As a result, people go about their routines and live their lives with fewer health problems that require daring interventions. When our work is successful, life simply goes on. People wake up, go to work or school and carry on with their day. Our work has little of the drama.

 

The article that follows describes a successful program to increase community participation in health education. It isn't splashy, but it is effective. We believe community health starts with knowledge; the testimonials of people in Kenya demonstrate how WiRED quietly contributes to that knowledge.

 

 

Trial Certificate Program in Kenya Advances the Quiet Work of Prevention

WiRED believes that community health starts with knowledge—and there is no better proof of this than the launch of WiRED's Community Health Information Center (CHIC) Certificate Program in Kisumu, Kenya. The CHIC library offers modules on topics such as disease prevention, nutrition, basic anatomy, maternal and child health and water purification. Although many people are already motivated to visit the centers to learn about prevention or a specific illness, the certificate program provides an extra incentive to educate themselves about a wide variety of health issues.
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WiRED Volunteers Make Amazon Health Program Possible

The success of WiRED International's second trip to the isolated Peruvian village of Galilea rests solidly on our team of 14 volunteer translators. These men and women translated 25 of WiRED's Community Health Information (CHI) program modules into Spanish, a task that took several months of dedicated, unpaid work. Read more >

 

 

WiRED Makes Second Trip to Amazon, Implements Health Education Program

After nearly two weeks on the road, WiRED's installation team has returned from work in the Amazon headwaters where it provided a range of health education resources for the small village of Galilea, located in a remote jungle region of northern Peru. Galilea's health clinic, a primary care facility now outfitted with WiRED's CHI library, serves as a medical resource for villages throughout the region. Read more >