U-VOL Foundation

U-VOL Foundation is a proud partner of The Okra Network, helping to support the successful launch of the Amani Pilot Project this past weekend in a rural community within Western Uganda that equipped over 30 rural women with menstrual hygiene education + the knowledge and use of reusable menstrual cups. We'd also like to thank project implementation partnerns on ground, The Change Society Needs, and others that played an integral part of making this a great pilot a huge success.

Join us LIVE here on Facebook this Saturday, Dec. 9th at 10am EST with The Okra Network as we discuss menstrual health in resource restricted settings, share insights from the Amani Project and explore probable solutions moving forward.

Welcome Dr. Pooja P. Vyas, DO to the U-VOL Foundation Board of Directors, as Board Secretary! Dr. Vyas is a board certified internal medicine physician and currently serves as the Vice President/Chief Medical Officer of Christian Hospital Northeast. She excels in her leadership skills and is a strong advocate for patient safety, quality improvement, women in leadership, and physician well-being. As a community and global health advocate, Dr. Vyas has participated in many international volunteer service activities to provide medical care in underdeveloped nations, and resources to underserved communities. Dr. Vyas is also an active member of CHIEF, American College of Healthcare Executives, and American College of Physicians. We’re so grateful to have you on board. Welcome to the Team!
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This is a recent photo taken from a Maternity Ward in one of the hospitals in North Central Nigeria that is being supported through U-VOL Foundation's ValueHer Initiative.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, yet are we truly listening?

The majority of the hospitals and clinics in low resource settings not only suffer from a scarcity of qualified care professionals, but have an alarming shortage of medical equipment and surgical supplies needed to save lives and properly treat patients. Many healthcare providers in these regions do without critical devices such as oxygen, basic physiological monitors, functional beds or basic imaging, while other providers do their best to function with outdated medical equipment. A lack of adequate equipment contributes to preventable maternity deaths.

Enough is enough. Every woman, in every community has value. It's time we do better. It's time we ValueHer.

Help us advocate for women globally & increase access to basic life-saving medical equipment by supporting U-VOL's ValueHer Campaign.

Give here:
https://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

We'd like to thank you all for your donations this GIVING TUESDAY.

Your support has the power to touch and transform lives for good by bringing greater accesses to quality and compassionate healthcare worldwide.

As a reminder, every donation today will be matched up to $5,000. This means DOUBLE the impact!

Please share this post today to spread the word. Thank you!

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Improving women's health includes improving access to contraceptive care. Overall modern contraception use in Sub-Saharan countries is low despite the unmet needs for family planning. Here are 3 considerations to know about contraceptive care in this region.

Welcome Foram Sheth to the U-VOL Foundation Board of Directors, as Board Treasurer! Ms. Sheth is a finance and operational executive, with over 15 years of experience working in corporate finance, with multinational companies, non-profits, and startups. Her focus is on improving operational efficiencies and building the financial pillar for an organization from within. Ms. Sheth has served in various service roles for non-profit organizations from Be My Eyes to Spoon Across America. We’re so grateful to have you on board. Welcome to the Team! Follow U-VOL Foundation to learn more and get involved in our journey.
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Empowering the Maternal Workforce: Traditional midwives and additional supporting community healthcare workers continue to be the preferred or only birth attendant available for many remote communities in rural areas of Nigeria. We’re helping expand our community partners’ capacity to train the local traditional midwives and reproductive, maternal-child healthcare workers to provide safe, culturally congruent care, as well as identify opportunities to strengthen their work through referral networks and local community partnerships.

Welcome Pamela Ruiz to U-VOL Foundation Board of Directors, as Board Vice President! Ms. Ruiz has over 20 years of comprehensive global experience in leadership, strategy, business development and global expansion. Her focus and passion are on sustainable infrastructre and ecosystems to ensure equity, access, and agency. Ms. Ruiz currently serves as the Chief Business Development Officer with Inteleos. We're so grateful to have you on board. Welcome to the Team! Follow U-VOL Foundation to learn more and get involved in order journey.

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Investing in the next generation of healthcare professionals is important. Short term relief missions should never ignore the local workforce. Our medical mission volunteers are often comprised of nursing, pharmacy, and other allied health students from within the local community. U-VOL’s team of healthcare professions help provide, not only hands on learning experiences for these students, but aim to empower them with knowledge, clinical skills, communication skills and peer-to-peer mentoring to help increase the capacity of the local healthcare workforce of tomorrow.

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Welcome Melissa Ursi, JD to the U-VOL Foundation Advisory Board! Melissa is a proud advocate of initiatives that promote equity and empowerment for underrepresented groups and has held past service roles in women’s safe houses and youth mentoring programs. She currently serves as the COO and Managing Partner of a healthcare IT organization. We’re so grateful to have you on board. Welcome to the Team! Follow U-VOL Foundation to learn more and get involved in our journey.
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We have great news! We've raised over $3,000 so far for the ValueHer Campaign because of your generosity!!! We are so grateful to have met this fundraising milestone together with you. We want to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the true unsung heroes of the work we do...YOU! However, the fight for health equity continues. Our ValueHer fundraising and awareness and campaign is still ongoing and we need your help! Help us reach our overall $15,000 goal to provide increased specialized health and education services to women, expecting mothers, post-partum mothers and their newborns in underserved communities. Spread the word, it's time to ValueHer!

Visit: http://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

Welcome Dr. Michael Grinn, MD, MPH to the U-VOL Foundation Advisory Board. Dr. Grinn is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology, and a double board-certified physician in adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology, specializing in both Anesthesiology and Advanced Perioperative Echocardiography. He is an active volunteer in international medical missions and educational programs. Dr. Grinn also currently serves as the Director of Medical Outreach and Education for The Emergency Project. We’re so grateful to have you on board. Welcome to the Team! Follow the U-VOL Foundation to learn more and get involved in our journey.

Join U-VOL Lead Ambassador, as she hosts another ValueHer Live event on 's Instagram page next Monday, November 13th. Get to know more about our ValueHer Initiative and how members of the global community can support women and maternal health.

This is "Sarah". She is in her 80s. She's strong willed, hopeful, full of life, and determined to get the ongoing care she needs to continue to live a fufilled life and to spend ample time with her grandchildren. Her main concern is not having continued support to obtain the life saving cardiovascular medication she needs without interruption.

"I traveled a far distance to be here with the help of my walking stick. At my age, these clinics are my only opportunity to get basic healthcare and my medicine, so I come. I can't really rely on anyone else now. I really need help. Thank you for remembering me."

We need your help.

With your support U-VOL helps to fill the rising gap in much needed primary healthcare services for ALL AGES, including the elderly--like Sarah, in underserved and low resource settings.

Will you help us be a part of the solution?

For as little as supporting with $5/month, you can be a lifeline to Sarah and other older women like her suffering from chronic conditions.

It's time to value her💙💜.

https://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

U-VOL is proud to partner with The Okra Network, helping to sponsor their Project AMANI in western Uganda with a donation of 1,000 menstrual hygiene cups and ongoing program support.

A menstrual cup is a safe and healthy method of menstrual management which has the ability to change a young woman’s life. The cups are made of surgical grade silicone and can be reused for up to ten years. They are inserted into the va**na to collect, rather than absorb, menstrual fluid. A cup can be worn for up to 12 hours, after which it is simply removed, emptied, cleaned and re-inserted!

Project AMANI, meaning "strength" in a literal sense, stands as a beacon of resilience for women and teenage mothers throughout their menstrual journey. By fostering not only their strength but also the collective strength of families, this initiative envisions enhanced menstrual health, improved nutrition, and safer water practices.

Learn more about The Okra Network and how to support Project AMANI here: The Okra Network
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The alarming Maternal death rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are crippling our communities, with those in underserved areas hurting the most. Most of these deaths are 100% preventable. You can make a difference by donating to our global ValueHer campaign!

U-VOL's ValueHer initiative aims to help educate, enrich, equip and empower women, in underserved communities + the healthcare providers that care for them, through increasing access to specialized women's and maternal medical care, health education, training, skill development & peer support. GIVE NOW: https://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

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Join us on INSTAGRAM LIVE TODAY at and get to know our latest cohort of U-VOL Ambassadors and their passion for Global Health📣. Learn more about our current causes and also how you can get involved with U-VOL. See flyer for details.

We look forward to seeing you there! 💙

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Join us on INSTAGRAM LIVE TODAY at and get to know our latest cohort of U-VOL Ambassadors and their passion for Global Health📣. Learn more about our current causes and also how you can get involved with U-VOL. See flyer for details.

We look forward to seeing you there! 💙

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We're so grateful! Because of your support, we've surpassed our first $1,000 fundraising milestone for the ValueHer Campaign since launching a week ago! Although our campaign has just begun, we want to recognize and celebrate the true unsung heroes of the work we do...YOU!

U-VOL could not continue its work without your support. Join our ValueHer heroes by supporting the launch of our women's and maternal health program with a donation. Visit: http://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

Ongoing collaboration 🤝with community stakeholders is essential. This positively influences healthcare delivery, enhances local engagement and promotes sustainable impact in communities. U-VOL's vision is to continue to build dynamic + community driven relationships and partnerships with people, communities, governments and organizations to create healthcare and wellness initiatives in order to lessen existing healthcare disparities worldwide 🌍.

We’re so excited to share good news! 📣 We have officially launched our ValueHer Campaign. 🎉Our global campaign is meant to highlight various sexual reproductive and maternal healthcare issues affecting women in Sub-Saharan Africa and to raise funds for the launch of U-VOL Foundation’s ValuHer Initiative program.

The ValueHer Initiative exists for every woman and girl who has been misinformed, mistreated, marginalized, or feels unempowered, insecure or hopeless. Far too many women and girls around the globe simply have a decreased sense of their value and lack access to core health knowledge and skills that will help to unlock their full potential to become great contributors in their societies. It’s time we help change that. Valuing Her means valuing the overall health, wellness and growth of our global communities.

The initiative aims to help educate, enrich, equip and empower women, their communities + the healthcare providers that care for them, through increasing access to health education, training, skill development & peer support. Learn more about how you can be a part of our global campaign: http://u-volfoundation.link/ValueHer

At U-VOL we recognize that knowledge is power. Education is critical part of achieving health equity and increased access to care. Here are 3 Target Goals for Improving Maternal-Health in Sub-Saharan Africa 💙💜💙💜.

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Women are often viewed as the backbone to our families and communities; however, they often suffer disproportionally due to decreased access to quality & specialized healthcare in many parts of the globe. Empowering women and their children are essential to fostering healthier communities and greater opportunities for community development.

Are you a mission-minded individual with a passion for service, equity and advocacy? We have openings for you! U-VOL Foundation is an international healthcare relief non-profit with a mission to help meet the unmet healthcare needs of underserved communities globally. The foundation is currently seeking to fill open Board seats. Interested? Quickly apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0no2alUweTtEanqT6WuOXqg8IJvRtKNQd8_FjkRm-Vu1jfQ/viewform or send your CV to [email protected]

We're super excited to be launching a new Women's & Maternal-Child Health initiative in Africa called ValueHer Initiative. More details coming soon!

Congratulations to our Founder & President, Faith Adole for winning the Humanitarian of Africa-African Heart Award by Hexa Media Africa . Keep blazing the trail!

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It's World Breastfeeding Week and we're sharing to spread awareness. Every year, August 1-7 is marked World Breastfeeding Week and focuses on the invaluable benefits of breastfeeding. This year's campaign focuses on promoting practices that can help support workplace-related breastfeeding.

More than half a billion working parents are not given essential maternity provisions and lack support when attempting to return to work.

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You can find more information about this year's World Breastfeeding campaign at: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-breastfeeding-week

Bridging gaps in Healthcare, worldwide.

At U-VOL, our vision is to build dynamic relationships and partnerships with people, communities, organizations and governments to create global healthcare and wellness initiatives to lessen existing healthcare disparities worldwide.

Let's build healthy communities together.

Interested in partnering with us?
Send us a message at [email protected]

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Make a difference in underserved communities and gain interational volunteer experience in Africa 🇳🇬 🇿🇦.
Our 2024 medical mission applications are officially open.

Our volunteer medical teams are open to Physicians, Nurses, Midwives, Med-students, Public Health Practitioners and others! Sign up now 💙.

Visit www.u-volfoundation.org/become-a-volunteer
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