Daughter is a 22 year old lady, who was first seen by IFESH in January 2008. She had been diagnosed as HIV positive during her antenatal visit and was referred to IFESH from the Health of the Sick Hospital.

"When I was initially assigned to Bahir Dar [Ethiopia], I'll admit, without even seeing the city, I was disappointed that I wasn't located in Addis. Afraid of leaving my metropolitan lifestyle in New York, I figured being in the capital city would be the easiest transition to settling into the place I would temporarily call home.

Dr. Alice K. Johnson Butterfield, a professor at the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, writes about IFESH's instrumental role in bringing social work education to Ethiopia in The New Humanitarians, a book published in 2008. "Our story is about the power of one person connecting...

Pauline Landrigan set out to make a difference in the educational system in the cocoa growing communities of Ghana, in West Africa. She did just that after being selected to participate in the IFESH Educators for Africa (IEFA) project as a World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) Fellow in 2005.

The positive benefit of collaborating with colleagues and Ghanaian institutions, government and private institutions, already familiar to IFESH, is now clear to the volunteer educators as well. The volunteers' dedication has taken them beyond their original program assignments. For example, IEFA Volunteer, Karen Washington who is currently assigned to the St. Joseph's Training College...

"Peace walked into the IFESH office in Nigeria with swollen legs and in tears. She had been diagnosed HIV positive during a doctor's visit that IFESH sponsored. She was referred to IFESH for child care and was enrolled into a support group, where she received clinical care and a basic care kit. Peace was unemployed and had issues with her husband following disclosing that she had HIV and needed money to take care of herself and her baby..."