We are big on sustainability at GreenLamp and are ensuring the Solar Suitcases from our first Light for Life Project in 2014 continue to work effectively as their batteries wear out. Our Project Team worked closely with Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and the Regional Health Bureaus to develop an...
In March we were pleased to run our third annual Interpersonal Skills and Leadership workshop in Nonviolent Communication with the 4th year students of the Hamlin College of Midwives, as part of our holistic approach to empowering young women. The purpose of the workshops are to share important...
During every trip GreenLamp makes to Ethiopia, we visit at least two rural health centres to check the Solar Suitcase are working. We also talk to the health centre workers, including midwives, to check for any technical and maintenance issues, as well as to obtain feedback and ideas for...
Midwife Mentors are well-trained and experienced, and bring skills training, knowledge and expertise to younger, less-experienced midwives deployed to the rural health centers of Ethiopia. Each midwife mentor is active in one of the five regions with a Hamlin Fistula Hospital. One of the...
2017 has proved to be busier than ever as we scale up our work in the Tigray region; a very rural area of Ethiopia with poor infrastructure. So far we have provided 35 health centres with a catchment area of 1,250,000 people with a Solar Suitcase. These centres previously had very limited,...
As part of our holistic approach to empowering young women, we organize Interpersonal Skills and Leadership workshops in Nonviolent Communication. These have been successful with the final year students at the Hamlin College of Midwives in Ethiopia, and are now also being run in Kenya through an...
To strengthen our midwifery education initiatives, we have partnered with the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) and the Hamlin College of Midwives (HCM) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to support a teacher exchange programme. In September we co-hosted an event at ZHAW with joint...
ZHAW Event “Sharing von Wissen & Technik’ GreenLamp co-hosted an event at Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) in Winterthur with joint presentations by our President, Christina Blecher and Denise Eigenmann, ZHAW Senior Lecturer, MSc Midwifery. Attendees learnt about our...
Fundraising is a big part of the GreenLamp effort, but the after-care aspect is even more important as we continue to monitor and evaluate the success of our projects. We have always worked closely with local partners to ensure that our help is practical, sustainable and appropriate, so when we...
Getting the money together for projects is always a big challenge, but our commitment to the Solar Suitcase initiative doesn’t end with fundraising. In March 2017, GreenLamp team members Kathleen Hedman and Joanna Boyd travelled to Ethiopia as part of our continuous monitoring and evaluation...
GreenLamp has initiated a teacher exchange program between the University of Applied Science(ZHAW) in Switzerland and Hamlin College of Midwives in Ethiopia. The program launched in March 2017, when MSc in Midwifery and ZHAW senior lecture Denise Eigenmann spent three months in Ethiopia teaching...
As part of our holistic approach to empowering young women, we organize Interpersonal Skills and Leadership workshops in Nonviolent Communication. The second GreenLamp-initiated workshop took place in Ethiopia in February 2017, and was very enthusiastically received by the final year students at...