Chao for Now

8/31/2018 I arrived back to the US a few days ago and have found myself reflecting and reminesing on my time in Gondar through the pictures I’ve taken these past two months. What a beautiful experience it has been. For those of you who know a little bit about my story – going back to […]

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Blue Nile Falls

During the weekends when I’m not working, I have been able to travel to the historical sites surrounding Gondar. One of the highlights of my trips have been traveling to Bahir Dahr and visiting the Blue Nile Falls. Rebecca, Favian (our German friend who is doing rotations at the UoG) and I took a 1 […]

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The Passion is Palpable

Intervention follow up group discussions Over the last few weeks we did our first and second site visits for the intervention follow-up group discussions at all of the inventional sites. Atsedemariam is our furthest health center to reach by car (~4 hours away) and Musabamp is one of our closest (~ 1 hour away by […]

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A Hero’s Return

6/29/2018 A Hero’s Return Greetings from my first 2 weeks in Gondar! This week we’ve been preparing to start the site visits for the interventional follow-up group discussions. However, a highlight of this week for SCOPE and the University of Gondar (UoG) community was the release of former SCOPE fellow Geta Asrade. As many of […]

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