About the RWHP
![]() -- Paulo Freire,
Pedagogy of the Oppressed The RWHP Mission: "...the people must learn to read their own reality and write their own history."
The Rural Women's Health Project (RWHP), founded in 1991, is a non-profit organization that designs and implements community-based, health-education projects, trainings, and materials to assist communities in strengthening their understanding of critical health, occupational and family issues.
The RWHP:
The RWHP Approach The RWHP's approach centers on three main concepts: modeling positive health behaviors, providing realistic options to health problems, and the importance of "each one, teach one." This philosophy is put into practice through the production and dissemination of health education training programs, curriculum and popular education techniques, publications for community and health organizations, clinics and outreach programs. Using visual storytelling as the foundation of our work, we guide community partners in the development of stories that will be the focus of each project. All of our materials, whether produced individually or collaboratively with other grass-roots organizations, include community evaluation to assure message impact with cultural and linguistic accuracy.
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