Ebola response from Belize!

For those of you who don't know, I volunteer for a fantastic organization called Last Mile Health. I have been involved with them for over a year and a half working with a curriculum development team to train Frontline Health Workers in the most remote regions of Liberia where people have little to no access to health care. Since the outbreak of Ebola, our focus has shifted and scaled up. We went from working in 2 districts with an entire curriculum to more districts and a curriculum focused on ebola response. Liberia is one of the countries that is hardest hit by this crisis and the need for community health workers is underscored by the scale of this outbreak. I am very excited and proud to be a part of this organization and also excited that my sister Larysa recently joined our team to fight the good fight with us! It was a pleasant surprise to get the following in my email today and I would like to share it with all of you:

Newsletter by All People Be Happy Foundation highlighting LMH's Vidiya Sathananthan, who has worked for LMH for 3 years, first as an intern in the Boston office and now as the M&E Research Officer in Liberia working on our Ebola intervention (November 6, 2014). 

Global Citizen blog post highlighting Last Mile Health as one of 16 organizations working to end Ebola in West Africa (November 6, 2014). 

Video by PIH's Rebecca Rollins on Ebola survivors. While news agencies count the number of deaths, organizations like PIH, LMH & Wellbody Alliance count the number of Ebola survivors (October 5, 2014). 

Video of LMH's Liberian Board Member Robtel Pailey, speaking passionately at PopTech about the need for a "dignified work rebellion" and to link that to support for scaling community health workers across rural Liberia -- to fight Ebola and beyond (November 5, 2014). 

Huffington Post op-ed by Andrew Quinn of the New Voices Fellowship at the Aspen Institute on the leaders in the fight against Ebola. He quoted LMH Board Chair Lynn Black, who said that her Liberian colleagues were the true heroes of this epidemic. She said, "If you want to hear about role models, and people that will inspire you and will just bring you to your knees with the work they're doing -- that's what really gives me hope."

Op-ed in the Seattle Times by Karin Huster on the need to not let fear drive the Ebola response (November 1, 2014).

Enjoy!