TrainHealth is an initiative of CFHI that helps to address the health care worker shortage in the developing world.

CFHI provides opportunities for health care workers to expand and refine their knowledge, so that they can better serve their own communities.

Additional training and professional development opportunities are well documented to help fight the brain drain and increase job satisfaction. Trainhealth is a direct response to the grassroots requests CFHI has received at their partner sites.

For 17 years, CFHI's international partners have contributed to the education and personal growth of the students who have served a rotation at their site. In turn, CFHI feels a responsibility to provide reciprocal educational opportunities for their partners and the community they serve.

Our current effort through TrainHealth is to support the training of nurses in India. Dr. Vimarsh Raina, CFHI Medical Director, in New Delhi, has long championed the work of nurses as the backbone of the Indian health system. For many years now he has been supporting the training of nurses, especially those who do not have the resources to pay for a nursing education. Please visit www.TrainHealth.org to help Dr. Raina in this important effort.

On August 25, 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaking at a new medical school, told the crowd that the shortage of nurses and other health professionals is “a major challenge for us in providing healthcare services to the people of India.

What You Can Do
CFHI would like to support 5 nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds for the 2009 academic year starting in March 2009. The cost of tuition and living expenses is $922 per year. Please donate today. Consider that a donation of $75 will pay for the tuition and living expenses of one student for a month. This education will be life-altering for many of these students who are often the first in their family to reach higher education.

Meet a nursing student that TrainHealth supports:Roslin Mary is looking forward to her second year of nursing school. However, her family is unable to support her education because her father has been ill and the household has very limited means. Roslin became interested in being a nurse when her father became sick. In her words, “My inability to take care of my father when no health care facilities are around my locality enlightened my mind toward the same situation faced by so many.” Roslin will work locally as a nurse when she graduates. She will also support her family and have the capabilities to tend to her ill father.

You can help support the nursing education of Roslin Mary and her classmates. 

Thank you for your support!