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Job Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Job Type: Regular, Full Time Reports to: West Africa Regional Director About CRS Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, educa...

To help end a leading cause of illness and death in the southern African country of Zambia, a Rotary (www.Rotary.org) club-led initiative aims to save and improve lives by empowering community health workers to test, diagnose and treat malaria. Malaria, a preventable disease caused by a parasite spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes, disproportionately affects children under the age of five and pregnant women in rural populations. To help end malaria in Zambia, The Rotary Foundation, ...