‘Everyone needs to acknowledge that all girls must have access to sanitary goods and accurate information.’ Theophile Bakuramutsa, Headmaster of Nyamicucu Secondary School, Butaro, Burera District. Empowering Girls: UGHE’s School Partnership Tackles Period Poverty
Theophile Bakuramutsa is the long-serving headmaster of a secondary school called Groupe Scolaire Nyamicucu, located just five kilometers from the UGHE Butaro Campus. Involved in education for almost 15 years, his passion for teaching started early, motivated by his late father, also a teacher, alongside the duties he assumed of looking after his siblings after […]
An Inkomoko trainer speaks to microbusiness owners in agriculture, retail, hospitality and other business sectors as part of UGHE’s new entrepreneurial capacity building initiative. Building Better Business: UGHE’s New Entrepreneurial Capacity Building Initiative Kicks Off
Over the last decade especially, Rwanda has seen its economy grow and tourism offering burgeon. Strengthening capacity at district and community level has been a critical part of the country’s national priorities, as a means of driving socio-economic growth, reducing poverty, and addressing unemployment particularly in rural and remote areas. UGHE, set high up in […]
Leading with Compassion: Shaping the Next Generation of Global Health Fighters
In the midst of a global pandemic and the various national responses to it, we’ve collectively seen that leadership comes in many forms and is crucial to managing change effectively. Country leaders demonstrating equity-driven, evidence-based approaches that prioritize the vulnerable have seen success in their fight against COVID-19. Leaders choosing to put the economy over […]
Fostering Immunization Leadership & Management through Evidence-based Training
The GAVI Epilamp Program of UGHE, Yale University, and PATH. *** There has never been a greater need to strengthen national leadership and management of immunization programmes, as countries globally take on the monumental task of rapidly procuring, distributing, and equitably administering COVID-19 vaccines, which is key to collective immunity and global recovery. Simultaneously, preventable […]
Health Systems that Save Lives & Give Dignity to Mothers
— Words by Emmanuel Kamanzi, Director of Infrastructure, UGHE — As we celebrate Mother’s Day today, it’s humbling and sensational to have witnessed a great milestone achieved this month within the One-PIH Family; breaking the ground of the state-of-the-art Maternal Center of Excellence in the most rural part of Sierra Leone, Kono District. This 166-bed […]
