Wrapping it up On our final day here in Salone, the AISHA team spent the day making sure that the devices in our three pilot locations were set up and ready to go. To start, we went to the Loreto clinic and spent a considerable amount of time with Sister Adama, Sister Philomena, and Elizabeth. […]
2024 Day 16 – Long Long Day
Today, our team took a divide-and-conquer approach, splitting into two groups to maximize our impact. Jules and Gaby headed to Freetown to meet with one of Sierra Leone’s only two nephrologists, Dr. Kabia, while the rest of us stayed in Makeni to finalize the setup of our devices in selected locations. Dr. Kabia expressed immense […]
2024 Day 13-15 Final Stretch
The AISHA team spent most of the weekend in the office, focusing on wrapping up and cleaning our databases. We also finalized decisions about where to deploy our devices, ensuring everything is set for the busy week ahead. Today (August 19th), our team divided up once again, with Simone, Maaz, and Natalie heading to St. […]
2024 Day 12 – Candidates
AISHA began their day with a farewell to Eric Obeysakre, our faculty mentor, who was leaving for the U.S earlier than the rest owing to academic commitments at Lehigh. While we were definitely going to feel his absence, his departure reminded us that our time in Salone was drawing to a close, and we needed […]
2024 Day 11 – A New Rubrik
AISHA’s Thursday began with the team splitting up first thing in the morning. Natalie and Juliana proceeded to the Midwifery School with the Mothers of Sierra Leone team straight from the hotel while the others savored their breakfast for a bit longer. Juliana and Natalie headed to Midwifery with the purpose of interviewing students and […]
2024 Day 10 – Demo Day!
Hi, it’s your friendly neighborhood AISHA team! We started our day off with a smile on our faces. A trip to the beach is happening next week on Tuesday! Our first day off since we got here and we are excited! But coming back to work, AISHA had multitudes of tasks ahead of them today. […]
2024 Day 09 – Disappointing Day
AISHA woke up this morning with a realization – only 10 days left. Reaffirming our resolve to make our fieldwork a success, we commenced our work at the WHI office. As usual, the team split up tackling various tasks at once. Simone and Vrushti proceeded to write and improve the code for our brand new […]
2024 Day 08 – Healthy Breakfast
AISHA began their morning with a fulfilling breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, pepay, bread, and malaria medicine. Consuming a healthy breakfast like any other day, AISHA ventured to the office, ready to resume another week of work. Upon reaching the office, a brief discussion was held on the tasks of the day and everyone immediately […]
2024 Day 07 – Sparring Sunday
One week down, two to go! We spent our morning at the World Hope Office putting finishing touches on our sparring presentation, Improving the AISHA Answers code (more on this later), reviewing our database, and planning for the next week! Last night after dinner, with some discussion on the changes being made to the current […]
2024 Day 06 – Mundane Saturday
The weekend began with the AISHA team leaving for the World Hope Office with an assortment of tasks for the day. Having realized the lack of contextual details in our database, we were committed to spending our time resolving the issue. Upon reaching World Hope, we had a brief discussion on the current state of […]