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.
Nuru Nigeria: Cultivating Resilience Through Permagardens

Mothers around the world are busy, and the Nuru Nigeria Women’s Farmer Association members are no different. They invested in two days of…

CORE Group Discussions on the Development Humanitarian Nexus

During the first week of June, global community health practitioners, academics, donors and private sector representatives came together to discuss the humanitarian-development nexus…

#WorldHealthDay community stories of #HealthForAll

In celebration of World Health Day 2018, Nuru International thanks our staff who are working tirelessly in Kenya and Ethiopia to help bring…

Mothers’ Day Moments Across the Ocean

First-time mothers reflect on new life and nursing I just got back from a precious week with my new niece (during her third…

Maternal Health and Healthy Communities

The World Health Organization reports a shocking statistic: “Every day, approximately 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.” If you…

The Cost of Water

As Melinda Gates points out in the 2016 Gates Annual Letter, collecting, treating and using water is a large contributor to “time poverty”—the…

What #IWD2016 means to a farmer in remote Kenya

From the perspective of a Nuru farmer in Kenya, it may seem like International Women’s Day has nothing to do with her. In…

Relentlessly Devoted to Farmer Family Health in 2015

In 2015, the Nuru Healthcare team was relentlessly devoted to helping farmer families prevent illness and move toward better health through positive behavior…

Community Health in Ethiopia Through servant leadership

The heart of the Thanksgiving holiday and living out servant leadership walk hand in hand in my mind: both are a posture of…

Creating a Healthy Start for Mothers and Babies

Most of the expectant mothers in the highlands of rural Ethiopia have to walk to get to a health center to give birth…