OUR FERTILE GROUND
"People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving forward." -Albert Einstein
Claire Hafter
"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't"
-Bill Nye
Claire is a fourth-year student at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, enrolled in a 5-year program comprised of a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Health Studeis and a Masters in Public Health. As a part of her undergraduate studies in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, she interned with Jawaya Shea in the Child Health Unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. in Cape Town. Concurrently, she volunteered at the Khayelitsha Site B Community Health Centre in both the Paediatric Unit and the Midwifery & Obstetrics Unit.
She became involved with Our Fertile Ground through Jawaya and Robert, and often worked in the Infectious Disease clinic at RXH with some of the Fertile Ground family She is also our webmaster, designing and building our new website.
She is excited to be a part of the growth and development of Our Fertile Ground, and is looking forward to studying the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, and how programs such as those offerred by Our Fertile Ground can impact morbidity and quality of life.
