
Engineering World Health is pleased to send you this edition of our electronic newsletter. You are receiving this because you signed up on our website, or have participated in or expressed interest in one of our programs. You may use the link at right to subscribe to mailings of print materials. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@ewh.org! In this issue: 2010 EWH Summer Institute gets underway Successful first session of BMET training concludes in Rwanda EWH awards scholarship to Cameroonian BMET student EWH is featured on What Gives 365 Designs submitted for first annual EWH competition 2010 EWH Summer Institute gets underway The 2010 EWH-Duke Summer Institute got underway in Tanzania on June 2. The 26 participants there have begun their training in Swahili and medical equipment repair. The Swahili courses are taught by Training Center for Development Cooperation (TCDC) in Arusha, TZ, and the medical equipment training is conducted by Larry Fryda, the Instructor, and Lora Perry, the On-the-Ground Coordinator. Lora writes: “The students have been doing very well, are still definitely quite euphoric. As expected, the Swahili lessons have been like drinking from a fire hose for most, but I've noticed marked improvements in their confidence with communicating with people here at TCDC and in town.” Continue story . . . Successful first session of BMET training concludes in Rwanda For the past 8 weeks, 16 Rwandan students have participated in the BMET program and have been provided with a detailed intro to proper equipment repair. Billy Teninty has been serving as their coordinator and instructor and has had the pleasure of overseeing their graduation ceremony on May 14. This is the first of six two-month training sessions that the students will receive. They have now returned to work in their local hospitals for four months to apply their newly acquired skills before returning to Kigali Health Institute for the second session in mid-September. After three years, the students will have completed the coursework, including the on-the-job experience between training sessions, and they will be certified biomedical equipment technicians. A new class of 15-20 students will be admitted to the program each year. This program is made possible by funding from the GE Foundation. Read more about this project. EWH awards scholarship to Cameroonian BMET student EWH, with generous support from the GE Foundation, is providing scholarships to students in Africa, thus enabling the continuation of their biomedical equipment technician training. The first such scholarship recipient is Kelei Kelesi Stanley of Cameroon. Kelei is a BMET student at Valley View University in Ghana. He began his BMET studies last year, and with the help of the EWH scholarship he continued with the second session of his training course in May 2010. Upon receiving the funding, Kelei’s words were: “I write to express my gratitude about the scholarship given to me by EWH. Words alone cannot really say what is in my heart.” EWH hopes to fund similar scholarships for both African and Central American BMET students as they seek to continue their education through existing programs. Another scholarship was given to Costica Uwitonze, on-the-ground coordinator of the Rwanda BMET program, to cover his exam fees and transportation costs. Read full story . . . EWH is featured on What Gives 365 Recently, Betty Londergan, a retired empty-nester, decided to “put her money where her mouth is.” Betty began the What Gives 365 project and subsequently will be donating $100 each day, as well as blogging about a variety of causes, organizations and people of her choice. Her hope is that by identifying those doing good work, she will also inspire others to follow suit. Betty interviewed EWH Executive Director, Melissa Beard, and posted our story on her blog on June 3. She was able to demonstrate her insight into the EWH mission by offering a snapshot of our organization through a unique combination of humor and humility. Designs submitted for first annual EWH competition The deadline for design submissions to the first annual EWH Design Competition was Tuesday, June 15. EWH is excited to receive novel designs from the 11 design teams participating from EWH chapters at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Duke, Georgia Tech, ITESM, Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Toronto, USC, UT-Austin, UW-Madison, and Washington U in St. Louis. EWH will work to assist the manufacture and distribution of successful designs, and the EWH judging panel will have decisions about the top three placing teams later this summer. Awards will be presented at the BMES conference this October, and design teams will be presenting their work. Don't forget to book your tickets — we hope to see you there! email: info@ewh.org, phone: 1.919.682.7788, www.ewh.org	What's Dala Dala? Donate: Your donations help EWH improve health care in developing nations. Subscribe: to the EWH mailing list to receive periodic mailings on our upcoming events. We respect your privacy, and never share our lists with anyone. Check out the EWH Facebook page Follow EWH on Twitter Passing the Gavel At its quarterly Board of Director’s meeting in May, Cathy Peck “passed the gavel” as EWH President to current EWH Chairman, Mohammad Kiani. As a founding board member, Cathy has served EWH faithfully in dual roles as President and Treasurer. She brings more than 25 years of business and accounting experience to EWH as well as extensive non-profit service — both professionally and as a volunteer. Cathy has been a prominent figure in the establishment of Engineering World Health’s mission and has played a vital role to the continued success of the organization. EWH would like to thank Cathy for her dedicated service as President and her ongoing support as Treasurer. Her passion for the EWH mission and commitment to our financial stability make Cathy an extraordinarily valuable member of the EWH team. BD sponsors EWH meeting EWH would like to thank Becton Dickinson for graciously sponsoring the EWH end of summer conference at Usa River, Tanzania.

Engineering World Health is pleased to send you this edition of our electronic newsletter. You are receiving this because you signed up on our website, or have participated in or expressed interest in one of our programs. You may use the link at right to subscribe to mailings of print materials. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@ewh.org!

In this issue:

2010 EWH Summer Institute gets underway
Successful first session of BMET training concludes in Rwanda
EWH awards scholarship to Cameroonian BMET student
EWH is featured on What Gives 365
Designs submitted for first annual EWH competition

2010 EWH Summer Institute gets underway

The 2010 EWH-Duke Summer Institute got underway in Tanzania on June 2. The 26 participants there have begun their training in Swahili and medical equipment repair. The Swahili courses are taught by Training Center for Development Cooperation (TCDC) in Arusha, TZ, and the medical equipment training is conducted by Larry Fryda, the Instructor, and Lora Perry, the On-the-Ground Coordinator. Lora writes: “The students have been doing very well, are still definitely quite euphoric. As expected, the Swahili lessons have been like drinking from a fire hose for most, but I've noticed marked improvements in their confidence with communicating with people here at TCDC and in town.” Continue story . . .

Successful first session of BMET training concludes in Rwanda

For the past 8 weeks, 16 Rwandan students have participated in the BMET program and have been provided with a detailed intro to proper equipment repair. Billy Teninty has been serving as their coordinator and instructor and has had the pleasure of overseeing their graduation ceremony on May 14. This is the first of six two-month training sessions that the students will receive. They have now returned to work in their local hospitals for four months to apply their newly acquired skills before returning to Kigali Health Institute for the second session in mid-September. After three years, the students will have completed the coursework, including the on-the-job experience between training sessions, and they will be certified biomedical equipment technicians. A new class of 15-20 students will be admitted to the program each year. This program is made possible by funding from the GE Foundation. Read more about this project.

EWH awards scholarship to Cameroonian BMET student

EWH, with generous support from the GE Foundation, is providing scholarships to students in Africa, thus enabling the continuation of their biomedical equipment technician training. The first such scholarship recipient is Kelei Kelesi Stanley of Cameroon. Kelei is a BMET student at Valley View University in Ghana. He began his BMET studies last year, and with the help of the EWH scholarship he continued with the second session of his training course in May 2010. Upon receiving the funding, Kelei’s words were: “I write to express my gratitude about the scholarship given to me by EWH. Words alone cannot really say what is in my heart.” EWH hopes to fund similar scholarships for both African and Central American BMET students as they seek to continue their education through existing programs. Another scholarship was given to Costica Uwitonze, on-the-ground coordinator of the Rwanda BMET program, to cover his exam fees and transportation costs. Read full story . . .

EWH is featured on What Gives 365

Recently, Betty Londergan, a retired empty-nester, decided to “put her money where her mouth is.” Betty began the What Gives 365 project and subsequently will be donating $100 each day, as well as blogging about a variety of causes, organizations and people of her choice. Her hope is that by identifying those doing good work, she will also inspire others to follow suit.

Betty interviewed EWH Executive Director, Melissa Beard, and posted our story on her blog on June 3. She was able to demonstrate her insight into the EWH mission by offering a snapshot of our organization through a unique combination of humor and humility.

Designs submitted for first annual EWH competition

The deadline for design submissions to the first annual EWH Design Competition was Tuesday, June 15. EWH is excited to receive novel designs from the 11 design teams participating from EWH chapters at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Duke, Georgia Tech, ITESM, Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Toronto, USC, UT-Austin, UW-Madison, and Washington U in St. Louis. EWH will work to assist the manufacture and distribution of successful designs, and the EWH judging panel will have decisions about the top three placing teams later this summer. Awards will be presented at the BMES conference this October, and design teams will be presenting their work. Don't forget to book your tickets — we hope to see you there!

email: info@ewh.org, phone: 1.919.682.7788, www.ewh.org

What's Dala Dala?

Donate: Your donations help EWH improve health care in developing nations.

Subscribe: to the EWH mailing list to receive periodic mailings on our upcoming events. We respect your privacy, and never share our lists with anyone.

Check out the EWH Facebook page

Follow EWH on Twitter

Passing the Gavel

At its quarterly Board of Director’s meeting in May, Cathy Peck “passed the gavel” as EWH President to current EWH Chairman, Mohammad Kiani. As a founding board member, Cathy has served EWH faithfully in dual roles as President and Treasurer. She brings more than 25 years of business and accounting experience to EWH as well as extensive non-profit service — both professionally and as a volunteer. Cathy has been a prominent figure in the establishment of Engineering World Health’s mission and has played a vital role to the continued success of the organization.

EWH would like to thank Cathy for her dedicated service as President and her ongoing support as Treasurer. Her passion for the EWH mission and commitment to our financial stability make Cathy an extraordinarily valuable member of the EWH team.

BD sponsors EWH meeting

EWH would like to thank Becton Dickinson for graciously sponsoring the EWH end of summer conference at Usa River, Tanzania.