Rwandan Nursing student Samuel pictured above is making name for himself by translating breastfeeding videos he acquired from Global Health Media into his local Language for mothers attending health centers. He is making efforts to ensure that all breastfeeding women get all the information they need. The Global Health media is also pleased to work with anyone who will want to translate their videos into local languages.
According to Sam, “patient education is often neglected because of
dire shortages of health care providers in Rwanda. These videos can help
fill this gap.” He soon had all nine of our breastfeeding videos for
mothers translated and narrated into Kinyarwanda. We added the new voice tracks to the videos and made them available to be viewed or downloaded from our website.
The videos will be displayed on a small flat screen TV in the
neonatal waiting room and in maternity at the University Teaching
Hospital of Butare (UTHB). Sam also keeps the videos on his laptop so he
can access them to teach, review, and answer questions as needed. UTHB
is only the first step for Sam, as he plans to distribute the videos to
many other hospitals and health centers in Rwanda to help turn waiting
rooms into learning centers and make sure newborns get the best chance
to be breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life.
Sam is a nursing student at the University of Rwanda College of
Medicine and Health Sciences. He is grateful to his mentor, Medie Jesena
(a pediatric nurse in the HRH program) for supporting this project and
to the neonatology nurses at his hospital for reviewing his
translations. We would like to thank Sam for collaborating with us to
expand the reach of these videos to mothers in Rwanda.
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