Podcasts about we care solar

This week we revisit a show from 2020 featuring the rootsy super group Capitol Sun Rays. The group is made up by the talented Luther Dickinson, Amy Helm, Grahame Lesh along with the three core members of a real eTown favorite, Birds of Chicago: Allison Russell, JT Nero, and Drew Lindsay. We also welcome eTown friend and bluesman John Long, who became immersed in the blues scene at an early age, traveling and living with blues legend Homesick James starting in 1970. Also, we'll hear from this week's eChievement Award winner, Laura Stachel, who co-founded nonprofit, We Care Solar, that is saving the lives of countless women around the world.   That's all this week on eTown!    Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!   Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/

On today's show, Liz talks with Laura Stachel—the light of maternal health. What do you do when you're born with an abundance of intellectual curiosity? If you're Liz's guest Laura Stachel, you become a pianist, OB/GYN, and doctorate in public health. She also founded of a non-profit that provides critical light to African hospitals and clinics so women can safely deliver babies.  And, Laura's not done yet. Her nonprofit, We Care Solar, is working to light every birth in 5 countries in Africa with clean solar power. That's in addition to the over 9 million mothers and newborns they've already served with their solar suitcases. Impressed? Keep listening for this extraordinary interview with Laura Stachel.

Some conversations are hard to have for immigrants especially when it comes to racism and sexism. They could be easily misunderstood for lack of communication skills or cultural differences. They might be unaware of ways to respond when racist comments are made. That’s why I invited Maame Afon Yelbert-Sai who is an internationally recognized thought leader, passionate activist on anti-racism and anti-sexism work. As an immigrant, she is sharing with us -Ways to educate ourselves and increase our awareness. -How to define the boundaries between ignorance and racism/sexism. -How to have race-related conversations in our personal and professional lives. her bio: Exuberantly embracing her calling as a consummate connector and networker, Maame Afon enjoys her work as an activist, facilitator, executive/life coach, and mentor, supporting leaders internationally. She is an internationally recognized thought leader, passionate advocate for women and girls and a leadership development enthusiast. She is also a recording artist who uses music to promote social change and philanthropy. Maame Afon currently serves as the board chair of African Women’s Development Fund, USA and We Care Solar, and sits on the board and advisory council of other international organizations including Cocoa360, Ghana Bamboo Bikes, Days for Girls-Ghana, Moremi Initiative, Street Business School, Women Leaders for the World, and Nurturing Minds/SEGA among others. She holds a B.A. in French and Spanish and an M.A. in human rights, gender, and international development. She was named among 100 African Women in Development by Donors for Africa (2020) and has been recognized as one of the 18 African Feminists to know by For Harriet (2015). She has also been featured in AfroElle Magazine (2015) and the #Pretty-Period Campaign that celebrates black women. In 2019 she was featured in Leading Ladies Africa (LLA) as part of the release of her #RightNowAfrica single. Maame Afon is the recipient of several fellowships namely, 2020 Perennial Fellow, 2019 Rise Up Leader, 2017 Hive Global Leader, 2016 Cordes Fellow, and 2009 Woman Leader for the World. Furthermore, Maame Afon contributed her story to We Will Lead Africa - Volume Two: Women (African Everyday Leadership Stories) – 32 stories by 36 contributors, available now on Amazon. She is currently working on a full chapter titled “Steward Transformation” as part of her contribution to “The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation.” As a Whole Woman, she brings all of who she is to her work as Chief Steward of MILT (Management for Impact Leadership and Transformation), the organization she founded in 2017. She also enjoys her calling as mother and wife, raising her three children with her husband. Social Media Handles Website: www.themiltedge.com | www.maameafon.com FB: Maame Alice Yelbert-Sai; @themiltedge IG: @MaameAfon @themiltedge T: @Maameafon @themiltedge Subscribe to Empowering conversationZ podcast on your favorite app: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz follow us on Instagram: @mehran.sorourian or FB https://www.facebook.com/Empowering.conversationZ.podcast

Maame Afon is an internationally recognized thought leader, passionate advocate for women and girls and a leadership enthusiast. She is also a recording artist who uses music to promote social change and philanthropy.   Maame Currently serves as the board chair of African Women’s Development Fund, USA and We Care Solar, and sits on the boards of other international organizations including Cocoa360, Ghana Bamboo Bikes, Days for Girls-Ghana, Moremi Initiative, Street Business School, Women Leaders for the World, and Nurturing Minds/SEGA among others. She holds a B.A. in French and Spanish and an M.A. in human rights, gender, and international development. Maame is a connector and a consummate networker, and enjoys her work as an activist, facilitator, executive and life coach, and mentor, supporting leaders internationally. She was recently named among 100 African Women in Development by Donors for Africa and has been recognized as one of the 18 African Feminists to know by For Harriet.  She is a 2019 Rise Up Leader, 2016 Cordes Fellow, 2017 Hive Global Leader, 2009 Woman Leader for the World Fellow, and a 2020 Perennial Fellow.   As a Whole Woman, she brings all of who she is to her work as Chief Steward of MILT (Management for Impact Leadership and Transformation), the organization she founded in 2017. She also enjoys her calling as mother and wife, raising her three children with her husband. Social Media Handles Website: www.themiltedge.com  www.maameafon.com Maame's music is available on several online outlets - iTunes, cdbaby.com, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, last.fm and Simfy. RISE is also available at Challenge Bookstores and the Vision Bookshop(Qodesh) in Ghana. You can learn more about RISE and follow this journey on Facebook Artist Page (Maame Afon).

In this episode Dr. Laura Stachel, Co-founder and Executive Director of We Care Solar, joins Paul to talk about the importance of clean reliable electricity in providing quality maternal healthcare, the role of technology in empowering local communities, and the urgent need to eradicate energy poverty to ensure all health workers have the essential resources they need to save lives. This episode is part of a series created in partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation, investigating the trends, challenges and opportunities in the global healthcare sector. What does it take to create a truly equitable healthcare system? From entrepreneurs to investors to community workers from across the globe, this series we’re speaking to the people aligning capital, technology and purpose to find the answer.

For their first visit to eTown, we're honored to welcome the recently formed rootsy super group Capitol Sun Rays. The group is made up by the talented Luther Dickinson, Amy Helm, Grahame Lesh along with the three core members of a real eTown favorite, Birds of Chicago: Allison Russell, JT Nero, and Drew Lindsay. We also welcome eTown friend and bluesman John Long, who became immersed in the blues scene at an early age, traveling and living with blues legend Homesick James starting in 1970. Also, we'll hear from this week's eChievement Award winner, Lara Stachel, who co-founded the nonprofit We Care Solar that is saving the lives of countless women around the world.

RadioRotary interviews “Mr. A,” also known as retired Red Hook math teacher Nick Ascienzo, founder of The Ascienzo Family Foundation, a unique resource for helping to alleviate poverty, provide educational services, and serve senior citizens. Many of Mr. Ascienzo’s former students have become Ambassadors for the Foundation, people who seek out local needs and write grant proposals so that the Foundation can support these good causes. Among the examples around the nation are Fresh Truck, a mobile farm market that brings produce to underserved neighborhoods; the Sunflower Bakery, which trains and employs the developmentally disabled in producing baked goods for sale in their store or online; and We Care Solar, a provider of solar-power on backpacks , enabling access to renewable electricity for people in developing regions. Although Mr. Ascienzo’s former students range over the world, the Foundation is based in Red Hook, NY, and many of its projects are local as well. Learn more: Ascienzo Family Foundation: http://www.ascienzofamilyfoundation.org/ Ascienzo Family Foundation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ascienzofdn/ Fresh Truck: https://www.freshtruck.org/ Sunflower Bakery: https://www.sunflowerbakery.org/ We Care Solar: https://wecaresolar.org/ Red Hook, NY:https://www.redhook.org/31/Explore CATEGORIES Developmentally Disabled Educartion Fiancial Aid Nutrition --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

Hal Aronson, Ph.D, is the Director of Technology and Education and the co-founder of WE CARE Solar – an organization working to provide light & power to medical facilities across the developing world.

Dr. Laura E. Stachel is the co-founder of WE CARE Solar, is an obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience. She holds an M.D. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. Shocked by the poor hospital conditions in Nigeria, Laura and her husband created We care Solar to offer hospitals “Solar Suitcases” which fuels reliable lights in hospitals and health care centers around the world. She is the recipient of multiple awards including the 2015 UN DESA “Powering the Future We Want” Award, the UCSF Alumni Award, the C3E Leadership in Developing Countries Award, and the Top-Ten 2013 CNN Heroes. 10 THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR 1. How her background as a Dancer and Pianist helped her with medical school 2. How not being able to practice as a doctor eventually led her to her life’s work. 3. What is solar suitcase and how it is helping health care centers around the world 4. Laura talks about her Light Every Birth initiative 5. How is the Women’s Solar Ambassador Program starting a movement and empowering women around the world 6. How was she able to learn everything about Solar Electricity from scratch and create an organization that is thriving 7. The power of storytelling and why it is important to have passion for your work 8. How a physician from Congo changed her perspective and what kept her going during a very difficult time 9. Laura gives advice to twenty-something-year-old entrepreneurs 10. The importance of taking it one step at a time GO TO LIMITLESSGRIT.COM FOR SHOW NOTES Books Recommended by Laura: 1. Strength in What Remains: Tracy Kidder 2. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande Movies Recommended by Laura: 1. Hidden Figures 2. Lion Connect with Laura: https://wecaresolar.org/

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, with more than 13,000 reported cases and nearly 5,000 deaths so far, has laid bare the world’s inability to mount a rapid response to an infectious disease crisis. Emerging in a part of the world with weak governments and collapsing health systems, the disease has unleashed a massive humanitarian and economic crisis. In recent weeks, good news has begun to emerge: the World Health Organization declared Nigeria and Senegal Ebola-free last month and recently announced a decline in new cases in Liberia. Panic over cases in the United States has begun to subside.Now, as the media wave of Ebola coverage begins to crest and the international aid machine at last grinds toward a response, it’s time to turn to the larger message of the outbreaks. Is Ebola a litmus test for poor health systems, demographic change and environmental degradation? What does this crisis tell us about culture, security and governance in a globalized world? Are we able, and willing, to respond to an epidemic of this scale? This panel discussion includes two veterans from the front lines of fighting infectious disease in Africa. Dr. Alex Coutinho, director of Uganda’s Infectious Diseases Institute from 2007-2014, has led first response efforts again Ebola outbreaks. Jane Coyne, on the board of Médecins Sans Frontières USA, managed many on the ground emergency relief efforts in Africa for more than a decade. They will be joined by an Ebola survivor who will share his unique perspective on the outbreak.Speakers Alex Coutinho, Chair, Board of Directors, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; former Executive Director, Infectious Diseases Institute, Jane Coyne, Director of Operations, We Care Solar; Member, Board of Directors, Médecins Sans Frontières USA, and Ebola survior and Infectious Diseases Specialist Ian Crozier will be in discussion. The discussion will be moderated by Gavin Yamey, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative, UCSF Global Health Group.For more information about this event please visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/event/28

All over the world, reproductive health is suffering because of medical facilities with insufficient or unreliable power. Some mothers are turned away from as many as four or five facilities in a row because capacity is limited by issues like poor lighting and lack of blood storage. In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity. Starting with an initial prototype built of home solar panels and scrap wood, the two have advanced their distinctive “suitcase design” to a standalone, plug-and-play solar system that is already seeing use in medical facilities in Haiti and Africa. As The Tech Awards 2011 laureates of the Nokia Health Award, Stachel and Aronson discuss the iterative process that brought them to their current design and the challenges of creating a modular device that can see use in profoundly different contexts. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/solar_power_in_a_suitcase

Dr. Laura Stachel started We Care Solar, after field research in Nigeria. She discovered a barrier to maternal care was a lack of reliable electricity so she put together a suitcase sized system which provides solar-powered LED lighting so that surgery is possible even when the electricity is cut. Series: "Science Today" [Show ID: 19863]

Dr. Laura Stachel started We Care Solar, after field research in Nigeria. She discovered a barrier to maternal care was a lack of reliable electricity so she put together a suitcase sized system which provides solar-powered LED lighting so that surgery is possible even when the electricity is cut. Series: "Science Today" [Show ID: 19863]