Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Fighting Inevitable Illnesses

Realizing the critical importance of properly administering modern medicine, CARE prepared Sumo with first-level curative care training. To begin with, she received her own medical bag with basic supplies; she then learned how to diagnose common ailments like fever and diarrhea, and to dispense standard drugs for them. And she learned how to quickly identify and refer critical illnesses, such as malaria or acute respiratory infections, to the traveling nurse practitioner.

Already aware of the ongoing water crisis affecting all of India, Sumo learned how the lack of clean water caused many of the health issues of the women and children she visited. Due to vast shortages, water was often drawn from a contaminated ...