globemed at gwu annual report 2011-2012
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GLOBEMED AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
students and communities improving health
around the world
2011-2012 Annual Report
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GlobeMed is a network of university students that partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of people living in poverty
AMHERST COLLEGE Pastoral de La Salud
San Salvador, El Salvador
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
ARM Orissa, India
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Medical AIDS Outreach Montgomery, Alabama
UNC-CHAPEL HILL Health Alert Uganda
Gulu, Uganda
BETHEL UNIVERSITY Rural Economic
Development Association Svay Rieng, Cambodia
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
RVCP, Butare, Rwanda Community of Hope
Washington, D.C.
RHODES COLLEGE A Ministry of Sharing
Health and Hope Managua, Nicaragua
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PEDA
Vientiane, Laos
BOSTON COLLEGE CCC-UNSCH
Ayacucho, Peru
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Primeros Pasos Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Cooperation for Social
Services and Development Phnom Penh, Cambodia
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Kallpa Iquitos Iquitos, Peru
BROWN UNIVERSITY Ungano Tena
Nairobi, Kenya
INDIANA UNIVERSITY CEMOPLAF Cajabamba
Cajabamba, Ecuador
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Maison de Naissance Torbeck, Haiti
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CareNet Ghana Hohoe, Ghana
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY KIHEFO
Kabale, Uganda
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY Health Development
Initiative Kigali, Rwanda
TUFTS UNIVERSITY Nyaya Health
Achham, Nepal
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Clinica Ana Manganaro Guarjila, El Salvador
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GWED-G
Gulu, Uganda
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Jambi Huasi Otovalo, Ecuador
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ASPAT
Lima, Peru
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Build Your Future Today
Center Siem Reap, Cambodia
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CEPAIPA
Guayaquil, Ecuador
MIT Women Mobilizing for
Development Bokeo, Laos
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Social Action for Women Mae Sot, Thailand
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
WDA Phnom Penh, Cambodia
CU-BOULDER HHC, Jawalakhel, Nepal
Courage Is Change Denver, Colorado
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Gardens for Health
International Gasabo, Rwanda
UCLA Nwoya Youth Center
Anaka, Uganda
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
COWS Kampong Thom, Cambodia
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Kachin Women’s
Association Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization
Masaka, Uganda
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Buddhism and Society
Development Association Kampong Cham, Cambodia
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Dios es Amor
Lima, Peru
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ASOSAP
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HOPE Center
Ho, Ghana
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Tiyatien Health Zwedru, Liberia Joy-Southfield
Detroit, Michigan
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
UDHA Iganga, Uganda
DUKE UNIVERSITY Salud Sin Límites Siuna, Nicaragua
OBERLIN COLLEGE Center for Community
Health Promotion Hanoi, Vietnam
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
KCRC Bushenyi District, Uganda
WHITMAN COLLEGE Burmese Women’s Union
Chiang Mai, Thailand
EMORY UNIVERSITY MAP Foundation
Chiang Mai, Thailand
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ACUDESBAL
Chiapas, Mexico
GlobeMed aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to
work together to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world.
We believe every human life has equal worth and every person deserves the chance to thrive. This
belief has drawn together our network of students, communities, and supporters from all walks of life and from every corner of the world. Health for all is within our grasp, but we can only
achieve it by working together.
“ ”OUR MISSION
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PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE
IN THIS REPORT: !1 MISSION STATEMENT
2 2011 – 2012 AT A GLANCE
3 ABOUT US
4 OUR PARTNER
5 OUR PROJECT
6 CAMPAIGNS
7 GLOBALHEALTHU
8 COMMUNITY BUILDING 9 GRASSROOTS ON-SITE
WORK INTERNSHIP
10 WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
11 GLOBEMED GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT
12 OUR FUTURE
13 FINANCES
14 STAY CONNECTED
15 THANK YOU
Dear family, friends and supporters, It has been my honor to co-lead the GWU chapter of GlobeMed over the past two years. After the success during our 2010 school year, Melissa Wong and I strove to maintain and enrich the enthusiasm and passion that are so intrinsic to our organization. With the addition of 15 new members, shifts within our executive board, and a thorough program reorganization, 2011 began with excellent potential. With our numerous events, including our bar nights, 5K runs, coffee houses, and BBQ, we succeeded in raising both funds and awareness about our cause throughout campus and within the greater DC area. Our most memorable and successful event, the Benefit Dinner, was both educational and provocative, and set a high standard for future such events. Due to phenomenal external and internal support, we were able to fund an additional Maternal Health Education Program in the winter, and we continue to support this program on a biannual basis. Overall, it has been an incredibly rewarding and educational year. Without all of your support, encouragement and commitment, however, we would not have been able to reach our high-set goals. On behalf of Melissa Wong and myself, I thank you for all your hard work and dedicated time - it has meant this difference between being a successful organization and an outstanding one. Sincerely, Eliza Mette, Co-President of GlobeMed at the George Washington University.
GlobeMed at the George Washington University
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GlobeMed at the George Washington University
january 2007
GlobeMed at the George Washington University (GWU) was founded in the Spring of 2007. The previous December, GlobeMed's Co-Founders, Victor Roy and Peter Luckow, discovered a university-based organization in Rwanda called the Rwanda Village Concept Project (RVCP). They partnered this organization with GlobeMed at GWU that spring and a beautiful partnership was born. Since then, GlobeMed at GWU has funded four projects that RVCP has implemented. In total, GlobeMed at GWU has raised over $45,000 and has witnessed this progress by sending a total of 18 students to intern in Huye, Rwanda with RVCP.
ABOUT US
OUR PARTNER Rwanda Village Concept Project
KEY FACT: Infant mortality rate: 60.04 deaths/1,000 live births ABOUT RWANDA
VILLAGE CONCEPT PROJECT FOUNDED IN 2000
RVCP was founded under the goal of providing sustainable healthcare fueled by self-reliant citizens. Students from the local National University noticed that there was a great need for healthcare in rural Huye, and that they could empower local citizens to build an infrastructure for these services. Their main projects are income generation, maternal health, malaria prevention, and family health and planning. GlobeMed GWU joined them in 2005 to support their goals of an updated clinic that would serve as an information and healthcare hub for families across the district.
WORKS IN RWANDA VILLAGE CONCEPT PROJECT POPULATION: 290,677
Since the Rwandan Genocide, the Huye District has been working on improving infrastructure and the standard of living. The majority of the population farms for a living (90%) and family incomes are low; however, the local government is focused on progress. Local government agencies cite maternal health and improving the health of the next generations as their greatest healthcare goal. There is a huge emphasis on education in healthcare services, which is appropriate due to the close proximity of the National University. Still, there is a deficit of service centers, equipment and supplies, and doctors in the area for routine procedures.
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KEY FACT: Expected fertility rate per woman: 5
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PARTNER
Dear all, On behalf of Rwanda-VCP, the community we serve and the International participants, I would like to express specials thanks to the GLOBEMED GWU chapter and RVCP members for the experience and commitment they have shown and shared during this year of 2011. Rwanda Village Concept Project is an international voluntary organization run by students at National University of Rwanda. The overall goal of Rwanda-VCP is to improve the living standards and health conditions of underprivileged communities and to develop capacities of students involved in the project, it is in that regards we have partnered with that chapter to reach our goal through the Huye health clinic capacity building as well as the Maternal health care education program. This year, I have been experiencing working with this chapter , and this lead to the great achievement on behalf of RVCP and the whole community we serve in general. February 2011, I visited this Chapter for better understanding of Globe med and how they works especially where they get the funds to support our activities, during this time I have got the clear explanations about the efforts they are using to get the funds, through the events organized in Washington DC and I attended one of these event and we collaborate on the creation of the global giving pages which is the tool for online fundraising May 2011, we hosted the 5 members from GlobeMed to work on the fields, it has been a great achieving team, they help on the follow up of last year target group of Maternal Health care Education Program(MHEP), at the same time the Construction of the waiting room to be used as class for MHEP sessions and the place where the patients can sit and wait for service from the health clinic instead of lying down as they used to do before. After that, they helped on the initiation of the new target group made of the women with malnourished kids, they have really committed on the preparations and development of the new teaching materials .They have been also able to share the knowledge and skills with RVCP members about proposals writing and different strategies of fundraising, the information which was really important for our members and the organization in general. Working with this Chapter, helped me to know how much is really valuable to have a certain time to communicate with partners to share updates and plan together what you want to do, not only in case of any inquiry or starting and ending the project. Based on the great partnership between RVCP and GLOBEMED GWU chapter, both students’ volunteering organizations, we will continue to use knowledge and experience shared during this work to shape our personality for better society. VINCENT NDEBWANIMANA RVCP OUTGOING COORDINATOR 2011 RVCP ADVISOR
Rwanda Village Concept Project
&OUR PROJECT GlobeMed at GWU
Why maternal health? Maternal health is an often overlooked issue in healthcare. With a high infant mortality rate and a lack of information accessible to mothers in the area, it is important to fill this gap in healthcare equality. When the initial assessment was run, we found that many mothers engaged in unhealthy practices while pregnant, did not have access to the healthcare they needed before, during or after delivery, and often did not have information on family planning so that their subsequent pregnancies could be positive experiences. Also, the healthcare that they did have was not sustainable.
Supporting the collaborative effort of students to improve the health outcomes and futures of deserving women in Huye, Rwanda."
In the 2011-2012 school year we made great success by funding a second Maternal Health & Income Generation
Program - we are now able to support this program on a biannual basis. The program itself consists of fifty women, whose children are the fifty most malnourished children at
the clinic. The ten education sessions that are conducted prior to the distribution of goats were held in the new
waiting room this year. The clinic itself is accessible to a population of nearly 60,000 people, and we hope to screen
focus groups on the television in the waiting room that all visitors can view.
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FAMILIES WILL BE POSITIVELY IMPACTED.
$10,000 TO PURCHASE GOATS,
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, MEALS
FOR THE MOTHERS IN THE MATERNAL
HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
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Rwanda Village Concept Project
CAMPAIGNS EVENT TITLE
EVENT DESCRIPTION
MONEY RAISED
5K Run For Rwanda
We held a 5K run on GW's Mount Vernon Campus, recruiting members of the GW community to participate in this event as individuals or even teams. We also received donations from local stores such as Whole Foods to support our event.
$522
Coffee House(s) Info session, video presentation, musical performances at our local Rwandan Coffee store, Bourbon Coffee
$150
Bar Night(s) Evening at a favorite bar with GlobeMed specials and covers at the door. $1200
Benefit Dinner Black tie evening with global health panel $2500
Hydrate For Humanity
We sold GlobeMed at GWU water bottles to GW students, parents, faculty, and staff. $798
Bake Sales Members of GlobeMed at GWU sold baked goods to GW students throughout campus several times during the school year.
$613
Individual Giving
Members reached out to friends and family to help support our partner. $9370.27
Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.
Since 2009, GlobeMed at GWU has raised $21,000 to support projects in the community of our partner, Rwanda Village Concept Project.
$15,302 Total funds raised for RVCP in 2011-2012:
GlobalhealthU is how we make sure, as Globemedders and individuals, that we are informed and responsible members of the international healthcare community. Without a commitment to continued education and exploration into current issues and basic tenants of global health, we could not be serving our partner organizations to the best of our ability. Global Health U forces all of our members to challenge their traditional thoughts on aid, charity, cultural views, and even personal belief systems, hopefully leading to a greater personal conviction in what they come to believe after being a part of GlobeMed. This year especially, our members had to challenge their views on poverty: what causes it, who is vulnerable, what drastic changes it can make in individuals lives and to whole communities, and what the responsible ways to fight it might look like.
globalhealthU globalhealthU is GlobeMed’s signature
year-long global health curriculum. This student-designed and driven program equips students with the
critical thinking skills that will inform a life of leadership for global health.
2011-2012 CURRICULUM
ORIENTATION Chapter members were
equipped with a thorough understanding of the values of
GlobeMed and explored their personal values.
POVERTY AND HEALTH Chapters conceptualized
poverty and sought to explore the connections between
global health and poverty.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
We considered the views of six developmental economists
to explored the root causes and paths out of poverty.
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
Chapters conducted an in-depth investigation on a topic
of interest.
STUDENTS’ ROLE Following a critical discussion
of our role in perpetuating poverty, we sought to
understand how we can be effective advocates.
REFLECTION Chapters reflected on the year
behind them both as individuals and in the context
of their chapter.
TOTAL # OF CHAPTER MEMBERS: # OF COMMUNITY BUILDING EVENTS: # OF HOURS VOLUNTEERED WITH LOCAL PARTNER, COMMUNITY OF HOPE: For the first time in our chapter's history, GlobeMed at GWU had a chapter retreat. We spent the weekend doing team-building activities, engaging in intense global health U discussions, and strengthening our friendships. Although this was our most significant community building event, it was not our only one. In
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Through service and team-building events, community and camaraderie is fostered around global health and social justice within GlobeMed chapters, the
GlobeMed network and surrounding communities.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
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GROW
Through Grassroots On-site Work (GROW)
internships, students build capacity of their partner organization, engage in
mutual learning, and ensure long-term stability
of their partnership.
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LENGTH OF STAY: WORK DESCRIPTION: This year the interns are working with the Rwanda Village Concept Project to implement our Maternal Health Education Program. Each week they will help conduct one session, ranging from nutrition to HIV/AIDS. In addition to assisting with the program, the interns are working to create an evaluation program that will track the progress and long-term success of the MHEP
“The aspect of Rwandan culture that has been most evident, for me at least, is the distinct
harmony and cooperation among the Rwandan people. There exists an equilibrium of sorts,
among the automobiles, pedestrians, moto-taxis, and natural landscape. People are less focused on
themselves, and more focused on the general well-being of the greater population.”
– Melissa Wong, c/o 2012
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INTERNSHIP
02 08 weeks
"Summit was one of the most rewarding and fun GlobeMed experiences I had all year! Getting to learn and work alongside fellow GlobeMedders from around the country made for a truly inspiring weekend."
-- Melissa Wong
2012 DELEGATES: Melissa Wong
The annual GlobeMed Global Health Summit brings together university students from across the nation for three days of intensive lectures and
workshops with representatives from grassroots global health organizations and a range of experts.
2012 GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT
OUR FUTURE
This summer, our GROW team will focus on maternal health education as we continue to support this program with our fundraising and collaborative efforts. As more and more women undergo our Maternal Health Education Program (MHEP), the number of members in the program's income generation cooperative also increases. To maximize the efficiency of this cooperative, we are dividing the cooperative into three different groups of income generating activities: agriculture, cassava flour production, and local market sales. We also hope to continue to expand the Rukira Health Clinic where MHEP sessions are held and where women can receive clinical care.
“GlobeMed helped me to integrate my academic interests with my personal
interests in a tangible way. I got to explore different aspects of global
health firsthand while also bringing my passion for global health to GW's
campus. I value the experiences I had with GlobeMed highly and will always
remember them fondly.” - Eliza Mette, c/o 2012
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CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! OPERATIONS! TOTAL REVENUE!
Revenue!
Events ! $5931.73! $5931.73!
Individual Giving! $9370.27! $9370.27!
University Funding! $2500! $2500!
Corporations! $77.50! $77.50!
Miscellaneous (i.e. member dues)! $1448! $1000! $2448!
SUBTOTAL! $6,000! $1,100! $7,600!
CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
OPERATIONS & GRANTS! TOTAL!
Current Finances!
Cash Reserves! $5302! $1000! $6302!
2012-2013 University Funding! $1000! $1000!
EXISTING BALANCE! $5302! $2000! $7302!
In 2011 – 2012, GlobeMed at the George Washington University raised $15,302 for
Rwanda Village Concept Project to support projects in Butare, Rwanda.
FINANCES
KEEP IN TOUCH
WANT TO REACH US IN 2012-2013?
CONTACT: Melissa Wong E-MAIL: [email protected]
Find our chapter on www.globalgiving.org/projects/globemed-rvcp-huye-clinic and make a donation to support our partner and project today.
Check out our photos on globemed.smugmug.com/GlobeMed-at-George-Washington.
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Follow our blog and chime in on the discussion. globemedgw.wordpress.com
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Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network. globemed.org/impact/gwu
EXECUTIVE BOARD
A sincere thanks to the following advocates, mentors, donors, and colleagues for making our 2011 – 2012 year a great success:
CO-PRESIDENT Melissa Wong
globalhealthU COORDINATOR Michelle Kuhn
CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Priya Fremerman
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Alex Moran
GROW COORDINATOR Allison Hockman
CO-PRESIDENT Eliza Mette
globalhealthU COORDINATOR MJ McGirr Crowley
CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Katy Stewart
DIR. OF COMMUNITY BUILDING Carrie Hopper
DIRECTOR OF FINANCES Alex Boulos
SUPPORTERS
THANK YOU
ORGANIZATIONS
Bourbon Coffee Community of Hope Rugby Bar and Grill
Whole Foods at Foggy Bottom The Global Gender Initiative at the
Elliott School of International Affairs The Women's Leadership Program
EnGender Health
INDIVIDUALS
Pamela Barnes Mehret Mandefro
Barbara Miller Richard Skolnik
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