martinw51Mar 32 minTwo More Online Sessions For ZambiaThe Amalthea Trust ran two more online sessions in February for Evelyn Hone College BME students in Lusaka, Zambia. Both online workshops...
martinw51Jan 41 minHappy New Year to all our partners and volunteers!The Amalthea Trust would like to wish all of our partner organisations and volunteers a very happy, successful and above all healthy...
martinw51Aug 2, 20213 minAmalthea Trust Summer 2021 NewsletterIt has been a year now since our previous newsletter came out, and what a year it has been! All of our field operations were put on hold...
martinw51Jul 6, 20211 minAmalthea Trust at the EBME 2021On June 30th the EBME Conference 2021 took place at the Milton Keynes Arena in the UK, and it was great to be a part of this big annual...
martinw51May 11, 20212 minOnline Workshop for ZambiaOn Saturday 24th April the Amalthea Trust, in partnership with The Tropical Health Education Trust (THET) and Hilditch Group, conducted...
martinw51Jan 26, 20211 minCollecting BME data on your mobile for FREE.We have recently been discussing possible applications for the new APP developed by Medical Aid International, which is explained below...
martinw51Jan 6, 20212 minVirtual Volunteering with the Amalthea Trust in 2021A Happy New Year to all of our partners and volunteers, and of course to anyone else who may be reading this blog post. We all hope very...
martinw51Oct 7, 20201 minVolunteering in the time of COVID19Unfortunately all field activities have currently been suspended as we cannot send volunteers out to Uganda, Zambia or anywhere else in...
martinw51Mar 25, 20202 minZambia Scoping VisitMartin returned recently from a one week visit to Zambia where he teamed up with representatives from the Tropical Health Education Trust...
martinw51Mar 24, 20201 minRecent Travels and Covid 19Having just returned myself from a one week scoping visit to Zambia for our up-coming new program there in partnership with the Tropical...
martinw51Jan 13, 20201 minSo, what's it like to volunteer?Earlier this year a professional film maker followed the work of two of our volunteers for a week at Kyambogo University, and managed to...
martinw51Sep 10, 20191 minAmalthea Return to EthiopiaJuly/August saw an unexpected return to Tegbareid college in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Unexpected because the original arrangement between...
martinw51Apr 12, 20191 minAmalthea Trust at the EBMELast week we had our usual stand together with Hilditch Group (who paid for it all on our behalf so huge thanks to them!) at the EBME...
martinw51Mar 11, 20191 minChecking the Asset Register at Kyambogo University BME labMartin Worster, our Programme Director, has recently returned from a short visit to Kyambogo University in the expert company of Ray...
martinw51Jan 21, 20191 minThe Autumn Semester of BME Practicals at Kyambogo UniversitySeptember/October in 2018 saw a team of 6 volunteers head out to Kyambogo University in order to deliver the Autumn semester of practical...
martinw51Jan 2, 20191 minA Happy New Year to all our partnersWe would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our partner organisations and volunteers a very Happy New Year. We hope that 2019...
martinw51Oct 2, 20181 minOur Volunteers Teaching Both Diploma and New Bachelors Courses at Kyambogo This Month.This week our Programme Manager, Jas Bilkhu, will be flying out to Uganda once again with a team of volunteers for the start of the...
martinw51Jul 16, 20181 minAll Set for Ethiopia Once AgainTwo of our most experienced volunteers are getting ready to fly out to Ethiopia for the second installment of the Amalthea Trust'a...
martinw51Apr 25, 20181 minAmalthea Trust at the Global Health Forum 2018 in GenevaThe Trust was represented at the 3 day Global Health Forum in Geneva last week by Martin Worster, who also attended the annual meeting of...
martinw51Mar 5, 20181 minNew Volunteering OpportunitiesMartin Worster, our Programme Director, has just returned from a visit to Uganda where he has been discussing a number of exciting new...
martinw51Jan 3, 20181 minA Very Happy New Year to all of our volunteers and partners!We hope that the coming year will be a good one for one and all, and with some interesting new projects in the pipeline there should be...
martinw51Nov 28, 20172 minAutumn Semester at Kyambogo Successfully CompletedThis semester Jas taught the first topics, Electrical Safety Testing and Management of Medical Devices, himself as the relevant volunteer...
martinw51Sep 19, 20171 minVolunteer Conference 2017Tuesday September 19th saw a group of our volunteers joining us and some of the Hilditch Engineers for our Annual Volunteer's...
martinw51Sep 11, 20172 minA successful conclusion to this summer's Ethiopia ProgrammeRay Emslie returned from Addis Ababa on 11th August after completing the second two-week stint at the Training-of-Trainers Programme at...
martinw51Jun 12, 20171 minAmalthea Trust on the BBC about possibly working in JamaicaMartin Worster joined BBC Radio West yesterday evening for a brief account of the work of the Amalthea Trust. It was part of a series of...
martinw51Jan 16, 20172 min1st Ugandan National Conference onBiomedical EngineeringLast week Martin flew to Uganda to represent the Amalthea Trust at the very first National Biomedical Engineering Conference to be held...
martinw51Dec 11, 20162 min3rd European Roundtable on Medical Equipment in Low Income CountriesOn 11th December last year Mike Hilditch and Martin Worster flew to Paris to attend the above conference called by THET and HUMATEM to...
martinw51Nov 15, 20131 minEven More Employment Success!Another email from a student updating us on great progress being made.
martinw51Nov 1, 20131 minEmployment Success!The Amalthea Trust was delighted to receive an email from one of our recent graduates informing us that...