Project HOPE US Board Visit and Dinner

A couple of weeks ago now we had the privilege of hosting a delegation from our Project HOPE HQ in Millwood, VA as well as representatives from the Project HOPE Board. This team led by Dr John Howe, President & CEO of Project HOPE did a three country two week intense visit with the aim of getting to understand the various programs that Project HOPE runs on the Africancontinent. We had the privilege of hosting the delegation for a couple...

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Vegetable Gardens

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Cosmo City Screening Day

Drew Wallace, a volunteer from the US, blogs about his first screening event in Cosmo City...  One of the biggest problems with chronic disease care in Africa is the lack of diagnosis. Most people with diabetes don’t know they have it until they start to develop acute symptoms, blindness, foot ulcers, etc. What we are trying to accomplish with screening days is to identify people who are diabetic and pre-diabetic before...

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First Impressions - Blog from Volunteer Drew Wallace

Drew Wallace, a volunteer from Virginia, USA is here in South Africa for the first time helping Project HOPE South Africa set up its nutrition program as part of the HOPE Centre project. Here is a blog about his first impressions.... So I guess it would be appropriate to start off with a bit about me. This August, I’m going to be a sophomore at The College of William and Mary (Go Tribe!), majoring in International Relations,...

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When is it OK for Chronic Illness to be normal?

When is it ok for chronic illness to be normal? This is something that I have been pondering for the last few days, but it first came up when I used to live in Mozambique. There are certain chronic illnesses which unfortunately result in people suffering pain and other disabilities with very little that can be done. However, there are other conditions where this does not have to be the case. When I lived in Mozambique, I stayed in a Malaria endemic...

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Diabetes and Hypertension Screening Day in Zandspruit

Setting up our testing station Project HOPE South Africa as part of the HOPE Centre project, funded through the Lilly NCD partnership held its first diabetes and hypertension screening event in Zandspruit on Saturday 16th June 2012. Despite a freezing cold day and recent service protests in the community which shut down everything, we managed to screen over 150 people and generated a lot of interest in our project in Zandspruit.  Nurses...

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Cosmo City Baseline Survey

Over the past four days a team of twenty community members, led by Project HOPE's Lebo Molete underwent training on how to conduct a community health knowledge survey and screen for risk factors such as blood pressure, weight, and waist circumference. The team went through a day of training and then surveyed the community for three days. Each morning the team met and we distributed out bags full of survey forms, BP machines, scales and packed...

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Project HOPE attends the first Healthcare in Africa Conference

 The Conference Participants  I was privileged to attend the first Healthcare in Africa summit organised by the Economist in Cape Town in March. Leaders from across the healthcare field gathered together at the Cape Town Convention Centre for two days of interesting discussions looking at the many challenges that healthcare in Africa faces today. Minster Motsoaledi The first day was spent discussing how Zambia and South Africa are changing the...

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New Staff start with Project HOPE

 Project HOPE in South Africa welcomes two new staff to its senior management team to help with the HOPE Centre project: Lebo Molete, our new Program Officer has an extensive background in social policy and health having previously worked in the UK and South Africa. He has a particular interest in non-communicable diseases and  was the founding member of a local NGO called PHELA (Public Health Education Liaison and...

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Its all go! The start of our baseline surveys in Zandspruit

The last couple of weeks have been hectically busy for Project HOPE South Africa. I have been looking forward to this for a long time – finally getting to dig down deeper into the community of Zandspruit and sit in people’s home and learn about what the community’s perception is on good health and barriers to good clinical care in the community.The idea of our baseline survey is to get a good understanding of the community's awareness on the chronic...

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