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Trees, Dogs, and Fried Dough
Let me tell you a story. I want to share the Ukweli dream with you. The date is August 2025. We have our marketing license (finally) and we are selling our test strips to thousands of women across Sierra Leone. Hassan drives his new motorcycle to the Kamabi clinic...
8/15/19 – Bucket Hat to the Max!
Today was an quite a mixed bag of a day. The team arose at an early hour in order to get a jump on a full day of work. We left for the World Hope office at 8:00 AM. A blow occurred in the early hours of the day. The team had to tell Hassan that the marketing license...
8/14/19 – Clinics, New Strategies, and More Rain
Hello Ukweli Fans! We had a loaded and interesting day. Rohan and Zach split off from the rest of the team this morning to visit two different peripheral health units: Makamp and Mapaki. Although the meeting with the Nurse in Charge at Makamp ended abruptly because a...
8/13/19- Clinics, Training and Market Shopping
Today we left the hotel at 8:30 bright and early, ready for whatever the day throws at us! Once we got to World Hope, Rohan and Jordan immediately left to visit three clinics—Mabunbuka, Mateboi and Gbendembu. The team sent Jordan to ask CHOs and nurses about...
Training Mode
Today’s events featured malaria, a meeting with one of World Hope’s top administrators and lots of training….. along with a near-death experience. I’m sitting here writing this blog post STILL trying to catch my breath from a whirlwind day, so...
A Sunday Holiday in Sierra Leone
With Hassan at home celebrating the holiday and most of the market closed for the day, the team took the opportunity to debrief at the World Hope office and work through some logistical details related to the venture. Most importantly, of course, we had some team...
8/10/19 – Wisdom of the Warrior: Hassan’s Journey
Our team trained Hassan today and finished some employee contracts, giving us time to go to the market. Khanjan gave us a weekend gift today and let us sleep in. We woke up and watched Marc completely butcher a can of tuna because he never learned how to use a manual...
8/9/19- Happy Friday!
Happy Friday! The Ukweli team started the day going to a Peripheral Health Unit. First, we visited Masangbo, a Community Health Clinic where we introduced our test strip to several nurses. We were joined by the Safe Motherhood Documentary and Sickle Cell teams. ...
8/8/19- A Day at World Hope
Today the Ukweli team spent their time indoors for the majority of the day. The team spent the day running through messaging strategies with our great buddy Hassan. He did a fantastic job learning from Naakesh, Jordan and Zach. While that was going on, Cassidy, Sage...
8/7/19 – Visits to Rokulan and Kalangba
Another day of traveling for Ukweli Test Strips! Today the team, along with the Sickle Cell Diagnostic Team and Safe Motherhood Documentary Team made trips to two different clinics within the Bomboli District: Rokulan and Kalangba. These trips were made in order to...
PUBLICATIONS
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Inexpensive Urinalysis Test Strips to Screen for Diabetes in Developing Countries
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Nathan Arnett, Alice Vergani, Amanda Winkler, Sarah Ritter, and Khanjan Mehta
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Can We Manufacture Diagnostic Test Strips Using an Inkjet Printer?
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Nicholas Frazzette, Jennifer Dobson, Arwa Mukhtar, Bridget Burt, Janak Jethva, James Adair, Khanjan Mehta
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Grace Warkulwiz, Kaylyn Hannon, Dom Cabano, Khanjan Mehta
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Stamping: A Low-cost Manufacturing Method to Deposit Assays
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Gabrielle Gundermann, Shweta Sen, Sarah Ritter, and Khanjan Mehta
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