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We just stumbled across Tambaroo Coffee‘s interview with Grounds for Health volunteer Sylvia Estrada from SCAA. Sylvia is a Nurse Practitioner in California and is one of our most active volunteers. Thanks to the Tambaroo...

Nicaragua Photos – Courtesy: Adam Pesce

27 May 2010

Justin Mool

During May’s trip to Nicaragua, Adam Pesce of Reunion Island Coffee and First Drop Canada tagged along with our crew to document the program with professional photographs. He certainly got some amazing shots. Here is...

Help Spread the Word – Facebook, Twitter, RSS Feeds

25 May 2010

Justin Mool

It was all a matter of time before we plugged into Facebook and Twitter. As you can see, we don’t have many followers yet … but we had to start somewhere, right? Joining us on...

Response to the Huffington Post

20 May 2010

Jane Dale

On May 17th the Huffington Post ran a commentary by Irene Natividad, President of the Global Summit of Women, entitled “Lifting the Burden.” The piece talked about the importance of an all-out international effort to...

Where’s Southwest When You Need ’em?

06 May 2010

Justin Mool

Needlessly to say, when campaigns roll around, we spend countless hours packing, slimming down, and lugging our supplies around the world. Case in point: Nicaragua. We have a team leaving for Nicaragua on Sunday, and...

Volunteer Amanda Blogs about Mexico – On Cafe Imports

04 May 2010

Justin Mool

As we reported last month, our rockstar volunteer (aren’t they all) Amanda Eastwood would write about her experiences in Chiapas on the Cafe Imports Grinder Blog. Well, we just got word she posted her article,...

Back from SCAA – Great Success and Many Thanks

27 Apr 2010

Justin Mool

Now that the cross-country jetlag has subsided, we’re just coming to terms with the enormous success of the SCAA conference. Grounds for Health sent a strong crew from Vermont, including relatively new team members and...

What’s up in May

27 Apr 2010

Justin Mool

Slow down? Fah. Never. From the Coffee Auction to more project trips, Grounds for Health has lots lined up for next month. Hopefully by May’s Newsletter, we’ll have many more updates from the field and...

Unite for Sight – Global Health & Innovation Conference

27 Apr 2010

Justin Mool

Apparently April is the month of conferences. Not only did we attend SCAA, but we also sent Martha Caswell, our Latin America Program Manager, to the Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference in...

Local Update from Nicaragua

15 Apr 2010

Martha Caswell

Elisa’s lovely note about successes in Tanzania made me realize that I hadn’t shared all the good news from Nicaragua. Our in-country staff from Nicaragua, Dra. Barinia Osejo Herradora, recently sent us an email that...

More Updates from Tanzania

13 Apr 2010

Elisa Vandervort

I just got off the phone with our Tanzanian colleague Dr. Annah Kichambati in Kigoma, Tanzania. Annah is our Kigoma-based, GFH-supported colleague and coordinator of our cervical cancer collaboration. Up until recently, she was working...

Correct time for GFH Reception at SCAA

13 Apr 2010

Justin Mool

So … we had a little brain fart and published the wrong time for the Grounds for Health Reception at SCAA. D’oh! If you got a postcard from us and thought, “Two and a half...

Volunteer Sylvia talks about GFH – From SCAA

Nicaragua Photos – Courtesy: Adam Pesce

Help Spread the Word – Facebook, Twitter, RSS Feeds

Response to the Huffington Post

Where’s Southwest When You Need ’em?

Volunteer Amanda Blogs about Mexico – On Cafe Imports

Back from SCAA – Great Success and Many Thanks

What’s up in May

Unite for Sight – Global Health & Innovation Conference

Local Update from Nicaragua

More Updates from Tanzania

Correct time for GFH Reception at SCAA

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