Making Connections

Our week in Macedonia continues to be an incredibly inspirational experience.

We had a meeting at the U.S embassy in Skopje this morning where we met with embassy officials and made important contacts.  It was very exciting. (Sorry no photos -- they're prohibited!)

Jasmina and Jagoda of Mobility Challenge and Vesna and Tanja of HERA coordinated an afternoon meeting with 11 women with impairments of mobility. This was a fantastic opportunity to meet with women and hear about their frustrations with health care in Macedonia. Mobility Challenge coordinated Skype input from Peg Nosek, PhD of the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities.  Jagoda also joined us (via Skype) from Washington D.C. where she's attending another educational program.

Meeting of women with disabilities (with Peg Nosek and Jagoda Risteska on Skype)

This meeting enabled us to collect important information about these women.  Interesting how much we have in common . . . the concerns we heard today are the same we hear from our patients at home!

Hopefully we can inspire this wonderful group of women to keep working for change in Macedonia.