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To recognize International Women’s Day tomorrow (March 8), our partners in Nicaragua are holding a a screen-and-treat campaign in Matagalpa today. The campaign will take place at the Lacayo Farfan hospital in Matagalpa, where they...

Welcome to our newest supporter: Red Diamond

28 Feb 2013

Justin Mool

We’re excited to welcome Red Diamond to our growing list of supporters! Red Diamond is a 107 year-old family-owned coffee, tea and foodservice company providing high quality products to hotels, restaurants, offices and homes across the...

How Funders Can Have Direct Impact at Origin

29 Jan 2013

Jane Dale

Back in December 2011, Equal Exchange awarded Grounds for Health $15,000 to support our collaboration with four coffee co-ops in Chiapas, Mexico to address the unacceptably high rate of cervical cancer in the province. Since...

Churupampa Walk

29 Jan 2013

Rebecca Singer

We had been walking steadily downhill through coffee fields for about two hours, stopping once or twice to “poach” a tropical fruit and satisfy our slight hunger. This November day had started off as all...

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

10 Jan 2013

Justin Mool

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and we’re posting on our Facebook page all month about our work and about cervical cancer in general. An easy way to get involved is to save the image...

WHO Comes to Vermont

18 Oct 2012

Grounds for Health Staff

Last month a team from the World Health Organization met with writers and editors in Waterbury to finalize the document Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control: A guide to essential practice. This valuable guide on cervical cancer...

Bananas: A Lesson from Field-Testing

16 Oct 2012

August Burns

Over the last month, we’ve learned a ton from round one of field-testing our new Community Health Promoter Curriculum in Nicaragua. Field-testing is a fascinating process that provides tremendous insight into the complexity of human...

Field Testing: Community Health Promoter Curriculum

16 Oct 2012

Ellen Starr

We recently finished the first round of formal field-testing of our Community Health Promoter Curriculum in Nicaragua. After months of editing, re-editing, seeking feedback and preliminary testing, we are finally close to a great finished...

Men’s Perceptions of Cervical Cancer

11 Sep 2012

Rebecca Singer

From January through June 2012, Dan Allen, a student at the Boston University School of Public Health, conducted research into men’s perceptions of cervical cancer and cervical cancer prevention services in San Juan de Rio...

Grounds for Health at International Cancer Conference

11 Sep 2012

Grounds for Health Staff

Late last month, Senior Program Officer Rebecca Singer and Executive Director August Burns attended the UICC World Cancer Congress in Montreal, Canada. The theme of the conference was “Connecting for Global Impact,” and it provided...

Promoting Our Cause to Consumers

10 Sep 2012

Jane Dale

As summer in Vermont draws to a close, we prepare to begin another fiscal year. The coming of fall also affords us the opportunity to look back on all the sources of support we have...

Taking to the Airwaves in Mexico

07 Sep 2012

Kayla Moore

Since Grounds for Health’s first campaign in Mexico, one of our key goals has been to educate communities about cervical cancer prevention. Unlike Tanzania, both Nicaragua and Mexico have had cytology-based screening programs in place...

International Women’s Day: A Day Early