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Hello everyone Here is an email I would like to pass onto you - apologies for cross posting. If you are interested in talking to Ngala about opportunities for support and/or collaboration with education and research in the Cameroon, please contact her directly: [log in to unmask] thank you, Sarah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:24 AM Subject: Linking People in Midwifery education To: [log in to unmask] Dear Sarah I am more than elated at your prompt response. This fans my zest for this profession of midwifery. For the past 5 years of professional experience in teaching and research we have encountered evidences that showed that increased maternal and infant mortality occurred mostly at birth due to inexperienced or inadequate midwives or midwifery skills respectively. Recently our Institution adopted the WHO recommended curriculum for midwifery education which is a 40 weeks program post a 2-year nursing education. As an institution we believe that institutions of health are erected to address and solve societal health problems. To this we run a clinic that serves as a community communicable disease control center with a breastfeeding research and advocacy center the only of its kind in Cameroon. In a few months from now we shall be embarking on community research on: 1. Community based peer counselor training to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates 2. Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in home deliveries by Traditional birth attendants If there are possible institutional collaborators and funders of these projects we will be glad you link us to them. We shall also be very glad if you can connect us to volunteer midwives with both teaching and clinical skills, who are willing to come spend some time with our institution and experience a newness a experience. I can without slandering say that health education and research have been left into the hands of politicians and you know the consequence. we have decided to bait the sail. Best regards Ngala Elvis Mbiydzenyuy MAPS, MWASP Director Institute of Science Technology Breastfeeding Research and Advocacy Center, Cameroon P.O Box 4088 Bamenda Cameroon Tel: 237 99 13 84 44 E-mail: [log in to unmask] -- Sarah Stewart EdD Student and Consultant http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com Skype: sarah.m.stewart Twitter: SarahStewart +64 27 7379998