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earlier this week, i met the founder and ceo of a very cool uganda-based NGO: conservation through public health. they work in bwindi impenetrable forest national park promoting conservation and public health by improving primary health care to people and animals in and around protected areas in africa (their mission). (and, their vision) to […]

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if you look at the “career path” of my 20s, you might say that it’s zig-zagged somewhat. people tend to look at me quizzically when i give them the run-down: history undergrad to litigation/communication consulting to law to pre-vet to public health grad school to hospital admin to global public health/development work. and, […]

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For my first 2 weeks in Kampala I have spent almost all of my working-time figuring out the logistics associated with starting a HQ office in Uganda’s capital. MIHV has been working in the field in Uganda for about 15 years, yet we’ve never had a formal HQ office in Kampala. One of […]

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I’ve got 5 hours to kill in Schiphol, the Amsterdam airport…on my way home from 1 month in Africa (2 weeks in Dar, 2 weeks in Uganda).
Reflections, first impressions, lessons learned:
(1) My name’s hard to pronounce.
For a native English speaker, my name’s about as easy as it gets…Paige. Simple, straightforward, albeit unique. […]

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Conversation with Kizito on my drive to the EBB airport tonight…
There are no poor people in America.
But, there are!
If there are poor people in America, then why do the American people give so much money to us?
It is not the American people that give you so much money, it is the American government.
But, if there […]

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