As many of you know, I was evacuated from Madagascar and the Peace Corps after 2 years of service in March 2009. I returned to Madagascar in October 2011. Though it's been a while and I'm completely out of practice, I decided to update you on occasion through a new blog. No promises on how often or entertaining, but I'll do what I can...
A few words on what I'm doing:
I am here as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer (formerly known as Crisis Corps). Basically, people who have successfully completed a term in the Peace Corps are able to use their professional experience to address specific needs through short-term assignments. I'll be in Madagascar for a year working as a Malaria Technical Officer with USAID/Santenet2 implemented by RTI International. I'm be focusing largely on community-based interventions, community health worker performance, and rapid diagnostic test and artemisinin-based combination therapy use. Madagascar is one of the countries selected by the President's Malaria Initiative, and PMI's partnership with the Peace Corps is the reason my job was created!
I can give you more details later, but for now I just wanted to kick this off. I'll provide links for those of you who want to read more than the random and often irrelevant snippets I'll end up writing about. Now that I have better internet access, I may even post pictures. No promises.
So there you have it.
