Recipients - Health e-Learning

Since 2009, we have been proud to support outstanding students through our scholarship program. Each recipient has demonstrated exceptional dedication, academic achievement, and a commitment to making a difference in their communities. This section celebrates their hard work and success, recognizing the bright futures they continue to build. We invite you to explore the list of past recipients who embody the values and vision of our scholarship program.

2024

Mirriam Goiye

My name is Mirriam Goiye mother of four children first twin boys aged 14 and second and third single girls aged 10 and 12. I come from a small town called Kerowagi in Simbu province of Papua New Guinea married to Enga province in Papua New Guinea. We lived in my husband’s village called Irelya in Wabag, Enga Province. I graduated with a Diploma in general nursing from the Highlands Regional College of Nursing and worked for 4 years in general wards. Then I went to obstetrics and gynecology working there for 3 years then I built up my interest in Midwifery so went on applying to study midwifery in 2017 and 2018 at the University Of Goroka in Papua New Guinea.

I completed the International Confederation of Midwifery [ICM] program in 2018 and graduated with a Bachelor in Midwifery in 2019. I am currently working in labour ward and post-natal ward. I was selected as a trainer of Trainee [TOT] for Emergency Maternal and Obstetric Care [EMOC ] and Primary Mother and Baby Care [PMBC ] training in the Province where I co-facilitate and assist with the Papua New Guinea Health Service sector development program. As an experienced mother of twin sons, I developed an interest in helping mothers who facing complications in breastfeeding twins, so through experience, I help the mothers who deliver twins. Helping them how to do football positioning and also do proper breastfeeding positioning and attachment.

I am also teaching the mothers in labour ward and post-natal ward to do Kangaroo mother care. It is cold up here in the highlands of Papua New Guinea so I promote natural warmth from the mother which provides the need for warmth, love, and nutrition and decreases the risk of hypothermia, hypoglycemia, and neonatal sepsis and enhances breastfeeding. As a nurse living in the village is very challenging in terms of women going in through labour or lactation problems and other medical or obstetric-related problems. My husband also helps them by transporting them to the hospital. I advise and assist them to the hospital for the right care and management and hospital delivery is promoted.

With that, I am more than happy to study with the Health e-Learning with the International Institute of Human Lactation Inc. My special thank you for the Trudi Szallasi scholarship, and for the golden opportunity offered for me to study online for the lactation program.

2023

Huynh Thi Diem Thuy

I was born and raised in Cam Kim, a riverside village near the ancient town of Hoi An, Vietnam. I moved to the capital city, Hanoi, to study medicine at the Y University for 10 years and then returned to work at the Da Nang Hospital as a pediatrician. For over 20 years, alongside treating children, I have been actively involved in promoting and guiding breastfeeding practices, which has been one of my regular responsibilities.

Raising children exclusively through breastfeeding has been an incredible journey that my two children and I have experienced together. I always share my own experiences with my patients, and it brings me great joy when a mother successfully breastfeeds her child. Children who receive adequate breastfeeding tend to recover from illnesses much faster.

With this course, my aim is to acquire more knowledge and continue supporting families in effectively maintaining breastfeeding practices in Vietnam.

2022

Agnes Nemes-Chow

Agnes, originally from Hungary, has lived in Singapore for 20 years. She and her husband have 8 children. Agnes has a degree in Economics but following the birth of her first baby, she decided to become a stay-at-home mother.

Her first 2 children were born in Australia where she received outstanding breastfeeding support. Moving back to Singapore, she was surprised by the strong push for formula feeding and the cultural practices that undermined breastfeeding. Her own challenges breastfeeding a premature baby and struggling with delayed, insufficient milk production have spurred her on to help mothers who face breastfeeding difficulties.

Agnes’ passion is to support young mothers in all aspects of parenting, with a particular focus on breastfeeding. Besides helping mothers in her closer community, she has been volunteering as a breastfeeding counselor with the local Breastfeeding Mothers’ Support Group for 3 years. Her volunteer work has involved online support to mothers, leading mother-to-mother meetings, and facilitating breastfeeding workshops.

With the IBCLC qualification, Agnes hopes to give professional help to many mothers, including low-income families who find it hard to afford such services. She also hopes to influence healthcare providers and policymakers to promote exclusive breastfeeding and make Singapore more breastfeeding-friendly.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Agnes Nemes-Chow to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2024. Congratulations Agnes!

2021

Hazwani Fadhillah

Hazwani Fadhillah

Hazwani is a medical doctor, a wife, and a mother of 2 daughters. After experiencing difficulties in breastfeeding her firstborn, she decided to follow her heart helping mothers and babies. In Medan, where she lives, breastfeeding support services are still limited. Hazwani became a certified lactation counselor in 2018 and took another training in lactation and with the support of her family, she opened her own lactation clinic in her mother’s garage. To reach more families, she joined the Indonesia Breastfeeding Mothers Association (AIMI) and actively participates in AIMI’s activities, educating families about breastfeeding. Now she also works in a hospital in Medan as a Lactation Doctor, helping mothers to prepare for breastfeeding before birth and provides a lactation visit after birth.

While focusing on her work in lactation, she realised that becoming an IBCLC would allow her to make a bigger impact. The credential would make her more confident in giving support and help to families to reach their breastfeeding goals.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Dr. Hazwani Fadhillah to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2022. Congratulations Hazwani!

2020

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Luciana Stehlik

Luciana graduated from the Foreign Language University and has a master's in Intercultural Studies. When she gave birth to her daughter, she realized the fact that she needed support in breastfeeding, even though she followed a prenatal breastfeeding class. After a difficult start in breastfeeding, a lot of research done on the breastfeeding literature, and the support of an IBCLC, Luciana decided that she also can become the helpful person the parents need to initiate breastfeeding. And this means a total switch in her career as she is currently a Project Manager within an international corporation.

Luciana started doing volunteer work for a call center, answering mother’s calls from Romania and abroad related to breastfeeding concerns, as well as volunteer practice in one of the most important maternity wards in Bucharest, Romania. Currently, she is preparing for the IBCLC exam in April 2021 and counseling parents in breastfeeding and child nutrition, especially through phone or an online support group. Luciana is passionate about statistics and she is dreaming to increase the breastfeeding rates in her country, along with all the colleagues in her field, through education of parents, and medical health providers.

Health e-Learning is proud to have supported Luciana to reach her goal and she has now successfully achieved certification as an IBCLC in 2021. Congratulations Luciana!

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