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Mar 7, 2022

Towards a More Gender-Equal Community Health Worker Program: Key Takeaways from the Gender Assessment of Liberia’s National Program

This International Women’s Day, we are working to #BreakTheBias that holds us back from a gender-equal world. At Last Mile Health, this starts with understanding what barriers women face to becoming professionalized community health workers and identifying opportunities to build more gender-transformative programming.

As a paid, professionalized…

Mar 1, 2022

World NGO Day: Collaborating for a Better World

This piece was originally published by mothers2mothers. 

The 27th of February 2022 is World NGO Day—an international day assigned by the United Nations that recognises and honours non-governmental (NGO) and non-profit organisations, and the people working at NGOs to make this world a better place.

This special…

Feb 28, 2022

Last Mile Health’s Ben Grant honors Dr. Paul Farmer at memorial in Monrovia, Liberia

Ben Grant, Liberia Program Director at Last Mile Health, read the following remarks at a memorial honoring Dr. Paul Farmer’s life and legacy in Monrovia, Liberia on February 28, 2022.

The Last Mile Health family shares our condolences to Dr. Farmer’s family, Partners In Health, and the Liberia…