Talking about community building in Kenya

The health of our children is perhaps one of the most crucial areas of community development. That is one of the areas on which Eve Puffer, my daughter, is working in her third year as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Duke Global Health Initiative. There is an article in the Duke Global Health newsletter talking about some of this work. I think you will find it of interest and may even find some relevance to other community building work needed right here in Hartsville, South Carolina and the U.S.

Muhuru Bay, Kenya Collaboration in action

My daughter, a community psychologist, is currently working on a specific community building project in Muruhu Bay, Kenya. Last summer she set up a research project to identify some of the key issues and she is now working with community groups, especially churches, to come up with programs that may lead to some ways of stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS among young girls. This post includes her most recent blog about this effort. She is working with the Duke Global Health Initiative in the WISER program, which just opened a school for girls in Muhuru Bay.

Major New York Clinton conference talks about communities

Eric Green a community psychologist has been at a global initiative conference in New York sponsored by the Clinton Foundation. He is blogging from this conference and his most recent blog is "getting to the HOW business." Apparently, even on a global basis, it is often much easier to describe the challenges and problems within communities than it is to come up with solutions that work. If you read his blog you will see how this is working among those who are looking for solutions to many of the world's tough problems. Making me think at the same time of work that Eve Puffer, a community psychologist, who works with the Duke Global Health Initiative has been doing in Kenya. She spent the summer implementing a research project to see if there is way to bring the strength of the social sciences to helping solve the HIV/Aids problem among young girls in one village. Getting to the How is a difficult challenge.