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Ritchie, White Ribbon Alliance Photo courtesy of the White Ribbon Alliance Uganda Uganda deserves praise! The government recently committed to recruiting more than 1,014 midwives; 1,436 nurses; 758 nursing officers; 223 medical doctors; 283 anesthetists; 1,101 clinical officers; and 1,360 laboratory technicians for the fiscal year of 2012-13, according to the White Ribbon Alliance of Uganda. The lifetime risk of death for a pregnant woman in Uganda is 1 in 35, according to the 2011 UDHS report.
10 Tips for Surviving Anthropological Fieldwork « Netnographic Encounters. Borobudur Buddhist temple near Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
A picturesque respite from the hard work of ethnography. In two weeks I will have been in Java, Indonesia, for a full year conducting ethnographic fieldwork for my PhD. I’m pretty certain most students who have completed this anthropological rite of passage (yeah I went there) will agree that the theory and methods courses we undertake for close to a decade before entering the field do little to prepare us for it. I’d say I’ve been pretty lucky so far in terms of my experiences, having chosen a wonderful field-site without any (knock-on-wood) massive obstacles.
The people who have taken me into their home and their community have been warm and willing to aid me in my academic endeavors. Below are some tips that might help the pre-fieldwork candidate adapt to their surroundings (assuming they are in a new setting) and perhaps even enjoy the process of gathering data. 1. For my PhD work I almost made the same mistake. 2. 3.
U of M students travel to Bolivia to provide clean water options. When University of Memphis civil engineering master’s candidate Sarah Girdner traveled to the small Bolivian village of Yarvicoya in one of the poorest regions of South America last year, her initial reaction was of culture shock.
Imagine her thoughts later when the community ran out of water. “That seems to be a common occurrence,” says Girdner. “It was a big shock seeing how these people live day to day. Many of them have no income. The only food they eat is what they grow.” Transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. [current-page:page-title] Career Center. Internship opportunities. FHI 360 is committed to the professional development of students and recent graduates, and our internship program is designed to provide tomorrow’s professionals with an opportunity to gain valuable experience and contribute to our mission.
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