Healthcare Volunteers

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GLOBAL FACULTY-NURSES

 

We are seeking registered nurses, certified nurse midwives, nursing educators, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners who are interested in helping create nursing curriculum and provide training to skilled healthcare workers and traditional birth attendants.We are also looking for practitioners who are fluent in French, Swahili or Kikongo to create educational lectures for presentation and our video projects. Topics for education will be based on our partners’ needs in D.R.Congo and Somaliland .Volunteers for this project should have an interest in medical education and/or global health. Global health experience (especially in Africa) is welcome, but are not required. Those interested in this opportunity should email Lorna Owens,lorna@footprints-foundation.org.

 
 

Countries.

D.R.Congo- May 5-19,2015-Archdiocese of Kikwit
Somaliland-October 2015 -Edna Adan University
Jamaica -No need at this time.- NICU University of The West Indies
Duration: 14 days

 

Areas of Interest.

Antenatal and Postnatal Care
Labor and Delivery
Care of Newborn
Complications of Pregnancy
Newborn Resuscitation
Universal Precautions
Training Day.
We usually lecture in the mornings followed by on the unit practice session.

 
 

So that we can make the best use of our limited resources we ask our Global Faculty to pay their air flight as well as the cost of their visas, vaccinations,accommodation and meals.
Please let me know if you are interested or want to join us. We would like to gather proof of licensure,references,credentials and individual information as quickly as possible to make certain all of our work permits are processed prior to arrival.

 
 

Thank you for helping us Save the lives of Mothers and Babies around the World.

 
 

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INTERNS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH ON FGM

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Footprints Foundation is seeking an unpaid intern to work directly with Lorna Owens,CEO Footprints Foundation on it’s campaign to reduce Female Genital Mutilation in Somaliland.

 

Footprints Foundation is a NGO located in Coral Gables. Footprints work to reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality in D.R.Congo, Jamaica and Florida City, USA.

 

Somaliland is bordered by Ethiopia in the south and west, Djibouti in the northwest, the Gulf of Aden in the north, and the autonomousPuntland region of Somalia to the east.

 

Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual removal of the external female genitalia affecting over 127 million girls around the world.

 

Footprints will be traveling to Somaliland in November and will meet with the local community in an effort to help the stop this century old practice.

 

The intern chosen for this internship will do so for credit and will research this practice in Somaliland and Ethiopia- making comparison between the countries.Special attention must be paid to successful programs. Footprints will seek to interview these programs in both countries.

 

Research is ongoing and will not be competed in anyone semester.

 
 

Contact: Lorna Owens Esq
Lorna@footprints-foundation.org
www.footprints-foundation.org
305-573-8423

 
 

FGM is also a crime in the following 21 states:

 
California
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New York
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Wisconsin

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