Josh Ruxin runs four nonprofit organizations in Rwanda that are focused on helping local communities develop.

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Ruxin doesn't have enough money to put in a better solar energy system.

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The program is run by Joshua Ruxin, a Columbia professor of public health.

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Ruxin became fixated on Africa after the big Ethiopian famine of 1984.

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"Someone may always have wanted to do something like this, " Ruxin said.

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With funding from the Glaser Progress Foundation, Ruxin and his Rwandan colleague Blaise Karibushi are trying to help 32 isolated clinics better manage the limited resources they have.

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"We are trying to take health systems that have declined and bring them into the 21st century, " says Ruxin, who hopes to bring similar improvements to 32 other clinics in Rwanda.

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"The level of vision for what the country will do with the average health center is far more ambitious than I have seen anywhere else" in Africa, says Columbia's Ruxin, who has also worked in Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

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