Those of us living in Kampala were lucky enough to be greeted this weekend by a huge contingent of Global Health Corps fellows visiting from Rwanda and Burundi - they took 8 and 14 hour bus rides to get here! We had a dinner for 25 (the picture below only captures half the group) at the only Korean/Chinese restaurant in town. I got to use my hard-earned skills ordering Asian food to feed the group - it was a great success.
One of the great things about being part of GHC is that we are constantly interacting with people from other health-oriented non-profits with very different philosophies. It's very easy when you're working with and socializing with people with one philosophy and orientation towards the use of aid in the health sphere to think that orientation is the only one, when in fact I think it's important to draw from different ideas depending on the work you're doing. For example, CHAI tends to be heavily oriented toward analytics and "big picture" thinking, but I think it's necessary to bring in the Partners in Health-style single patient-oriented mindset when thinking about the actual effects interventions might have.
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