Mothers around the world are busy, and the Nuru Nigeria Women’s Farmer Association members are no different. They invested in two days of…
Athena Childs Fleisher
Healthcare Program Strategic Advisor — Athena comes to Nuru after more than a decade in the fields of international public health, disaster risk reduction, microfinance, and social business creation. During graduate school, she earned both an MBA and MPH from the University of Arizona.
During the first week of June, global community health practitioners, academics, donors and private sector representatives came together to discuss the humanitarian-development nexus…
In celebration of World Health Day 2018, Nuru International thanks our staff who are working tirelessly in Kenya and Ethiopia to help bring…
First-time mothers reflect on new life and nursing I just got back from a precious week with my new niece (during her third…
The World Health Organization reports a shocking statistic: “Every day, approximately 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.” If you…
As Melinda Gates points out in the 2016 Gates Annual Letter, collecting, treating and using water is a large contributor to “time poverty”—the…
From the perspective of a Nuru farmer in Kenya, it may seem like International Women’s Day has nothing to do with her. In…
In 2015, the Nuru Healthcare team was relentlessly devoted to helping farmer families prevent illness and move toward better health through positive behavior…
The heart of the Thanksgiving holiday and living out servant leadership walk hand in hand in my mind: both are a posture of…
Most of the expectant mothers in the highlands of rural Ethiopia have to walk to get to a health center to give birth…