Malawi

Health Sector

In January of 2023, our team traveled to Malawi to launch the SolarSPELL Health Library in partnership with the Malawi Peace Corps Response Advancing Health Professionals (AHP) program and the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS). We trained 39 administrators, faculty, librarians and students across two university campuses. This two-part pilot is evaluating the libraries’ impact both on campus and in the field during students’ clinical rotations.

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Total number of SolarSPELL libraries deployed
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Total number of people trained
23,000
Estimated number of people reached

Working With

  • Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
  • Peace Corps Response Advancing Health Professionals

Dates

  • January 2023

Photos from the Field

Students and faculty from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi hold up SolarSPELL devices to the sun to see how they charge, as SolarSPELL director Laura Hosman talks with them about the technology.
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Testimonials

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“The SolarSPELL library contains information that can be used by different people with different levels of understanding. This will help me to reach out to people of different backgrounds.”

Survey respondentKamuzu University of Health Sciences
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“As nurses here, we have been told we are educators, but if you just go there with the information, it will be hard for the people to understand. If you take the SolarSPELL there and show them some videos — for example, ways of reducing risks of contracting cholera — it will be easier for them to grasp what you’re saying.”

ChrissyNursing student, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
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“It will bring in more equality in access to education. Students coming from wealthier families tend to have greater access to information, increasing inequalities and affecting performance of students.”

Survey respondentKamuzu University of Health Sciences

Blog

Students and faculty from Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi hold up SolarSPELL devices to the sun to see how they charge, as SolarSPELL director Laura Hosman talks with them about the technology.EventsHealthMalawiPeace CorpsStudent Engagement
February 15, 2023

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