{"id":11795,"date":"2018-11-29T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:42:42","slug":"2018-seeds-for-change-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2018\/11\/29\/2018-seeds-for-change-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Global WACh Announces the 2018 Seeds for Change Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh is pleased to announce applicants selected for this year\u2019s funding cycle of the <strong>Seeds for Change Resource Award to Strengthen Collaborative Sites<\/strong>.\u00a0 Congratulations to our three awardees!<!--more--><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 362px;\" width=\"888\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"156\"><strong>Applicant<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\"><strong>Site\/Location<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"106\"><strong>Award Amount<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Purpose<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"156\"><strong>Dr. Anfilled Agwanda<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\">Nyakach County Hospital, Kenya<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">$998 USD<\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Purchasing essential medical and diagnostic equipment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"156\"><strong>Dr. James Mburu Kang\u2019ethe<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\">Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">$919 USD<\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Furnishing the HIV counseling and testing room in the post-natal ward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"156\"><strong>Dominic Bosire<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"240\">Katito Subcounty Hospital, Kenya<\/td>\n<td width=\"106\">$997 USD<\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Painting the inpatient pediatric ward and water closets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We received several excellent applications that outlined low-cost solutions to address gaps in patient care at applicants\u2019 healthcare sites.\u00a0 A review committee\u2014comprised of eight UW Department of Global Health faculty members and the International AIDS Research and Training Program (IARTP) and <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/perla\">Program in Education and Research in Latin America (PERLA)<\/a> Scholars\u2014scored the proposals and selected ideas that demonstrated the greatest potential for the most feasible, impactful changes for patients.<\/p>\n<p>Global WACh\u2019s Seeds for Change Awards are small infrastructure grants (up to $1,000 USD) given to improve clinical care, patient satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and health service delivery for programs befitting the health of women, adolescents and children in resource-limited settings.\u00a0 Global WACh partners with awardees in the spirit that small changes can have a big impact.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Seeds for Change Awards are supported through private donations from people like you. You can make a gift on our website\u2019s Small Change Award page or give through the UW\u00a0Combined Fund Drive that supports more than 5,000 non-profits in the UWCFD campaign (Charity 1481904).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh is pleased to announce applicants selected for this year\u2019s funding cycle of the Seeds for Change Resource Award to Strengthen Collaborative Sites.\u00a0 Congratulations to our three awardees!<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2018\/11\/29\/2018-seeds-for-change-award-recipients\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Global WACh Announces the 2018 Seeds for Change Award Recipients\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18571,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}