Project Overview - Benefits of the Project
This project builds upon, extends, and sustains a long-standing commitment
to collaboration among FLAWI partner institutions in Florida and a range of
institutions in Senegal. In addition to professional development for faculty,
the Florida institutions have received the important benefits of testing and
adapting their model for community health and education in a different culture
and health environment. Significant growth and development in understanding
how these concepts work in Africa broadened comprehension and enhanced potential
for replicating these programs and meeting new challenges in the United States
and elsewhere.
The sustainability of this project may be seen in its direct contribution
to early direction, growth, and establishment of a new permanent institution
of higher education in the interior of Senegal. It also has the support of
both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. This ALO/UDC project
will, over time, influence community health education and training in Senegal
at the “community college” level, and the delivery of health services
to that country. As proof of this future development, the grant team, during
the last visit, received a commitment from the Minister of Education when
he unveiled his new “college” in Bambey and stated to the Bambey
community, in the presence of the team, that the Ministry is committed to
the development of this new institution, and that the curriculum in community
health developed in this project will be a part of the new Bambey institution’s
program of studies. The Bambey CUR is scheduled to open in the fall of 2003.
contact
Florida West Africa Linkage Institute
University of North Florida ;4567 St. Johns Bluff Road,
South ; Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Telephone: (904)620-1950, Fax: (904) 620-1790
