Men As Partners Program – a great success!
March 3, 2010

As EFA’s technical advisor and the facilitator of the Men As Partners program, I am proud to report that our February 2010 training has been a genuine success!
 
This two-week-long health education and wellness training benefited 30 young men who …

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Notes from the Field: Collective Efficacy
April 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Notes from the Field: Collective Efficacy

This is a good day. This is a good life. It does not take much to remind me of all the wealth, non-material, of course, and beauty that exists around me. Sometimes I do need …

Peace Corps Collaboration
March 3, 2009 | Add Comment
Peace Corps Collaboration

In March 2009, EFA International was invited to participate in the Peace Corps Health Volunteer in-service training in Maroua. The training was attended by all Peace Corps Health Volunteers and their respective counterparts from throughout …

Notes from the Field: Peer Education
February 9, 2009 | Add Comment
Notes from the Field: Peer Education

I have been working hard to create the peer education curriculum and spent much of this week publicizing the program to the EFA’s youth groups of people living with HIV/AIDS. The training, which will take …

EFA Expands Operations into Rwanda
February 2, 2009 | Add Comment
EFA Expands Operations into Rwanda

In November 2008, EFA International officially expanded operations into Rwanda by formally partnering with the Rebero Orphan Center (ROC) in Kigali. EFA is now working with ROC to establish an Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) …

UNICEF: Combating HIV in Cameroon
January 14, 2009 | Add Comment
UNICEF: Combating HIV in Cameroon

This video, from the UNICEF’s YouTube Channel, frames some of the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS in Cameroon that EFA’s work attempts to address.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, 14 January 2009
Jacqueline sits on the tattered couch in her two-room home, …

Notes from the Field: The Beginnings with EFA
January 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Notes from the Field: The Beginnings with EFA

After just a month after my arrival here in Maroua, I feel more and more comfortable with the city and with all of the potentials for work opportunities. For a few weeks, I felt overwhelmed …