Passing the half-million dollar mark
by Bianca Nguyen on January 24, 2012
Halfway through our biggest year yet, we are thrilled to announce:
Since 2008, the GlobeMed network has raised over half a million dollars for our partnerships around the world! After adding fall fundraising totals from our 46 chapters, we are officially at a total of $581,150.
How did we accomplish this? By finding established, high-impact organizations already transforming the health of their communities and connecting them with groups of passionate students who mobilize their resources to drive change through partnership.
Across the board, GlobeMed's 46 chapters are quickly surpassing ambitious goals and raising unprecedented amounts as demonstrated by GlobeMed at Columbia's recent success. The Columbia chapter has been partnered with Gulu Women’s Economic Development and Globalization (GWED-G) in Gulu, Uganda since 2009.
The chapter at Columbia has been steadily building upon lessons learned during each campaign season, raising a total of $7,000 in their first year with GWED-G and $15,000 in the 2010-2011 academic year. This year, thanks to an incredible individual giving appeal on GlobalGiving, they brought in a whopping $17,285! Including their campus-based campaigns brings their school-year to date total to $25,000, doubling their initial goal... and they’re only halfway through the school year.
GlobeMed at Columbia’s support for GWED-G's three-pronged initiative to combat HIV/AIDS in Uganda is only one example of a dozen others across the GlobeMed network that are tackling disease prevention in developing communities around the world.
This year, GlobeMed's 46 university-based chapters are supporting community-based projects addressing 6 crucial areas of health and development. These projects will be implemented by partner organizations on-the-ground who work in 18 countries throughout North America, Asia, South America and Africa to improve the lives of people living in poverty.
Here's a snapshot of projects supported by partnerships across the network during the 2011 - 2012 academic year (Chapter // Partner, Location):
1. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION (13 projects)
- Columbia University // GWED-G, Gulu, Uganda
- Emory University // MAP Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Florida State University // ARM, Orissa, India
- Lawrence University // HDI, Kigali, Rwanda
- Northwestern University // HOPE Center, Ho, Ghana
- Oberlin College // CCHP, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Rhodes College // AMOS, Managua, Nicaragua
- Rutgers University // CSSD, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- UCLA // Nwoya Youth Center, Anaka, Uganda
- University of Chicago // ASPAT, Callao, Peru (2 projects)
- University of Notre Dame // PEDA, Vientiane, Laos
- Washington University in St. Louis // UDHA, Iganga, Uganda
2. MATERNAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION (9 projects)
- Dartmouth College // KWAT, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- George Washington University // RVCP, Huye District, Rwanda
- Indiana University // CEMOPLAF, Cajabamba, Ecuador
- Loyola University of Chicago // Jambi Huasi, Otavalo, Ecuador
- University of Cincinnati // SAW, Mae Sot, Thailand
- University of Rochester // Kallpa Iquitos, Iquitos, Peru
- University of Virginia // BFT, Siem Reap, Cambodia
- University of Wisconsin-Madison // COWS, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
- Whitman College // BWU, Chiang Mai, Thailand
3. NUTRITION (13 projects)
- Amherst College // Pastoral de la Salud, San Salvador, El Salvador
- Boston College // CCC-UNSCH, Ayacucho, Peru
- Bucknell University // KIHEFO, Kabale, Uganda
- CU-Boulder // HHC, Jawalakhel, Nepal
- Georgetown University // Primeros Pasos, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Middlebury College // Gardens for Health International, Gasabo, Rwanda
- MIT // WMD, Bokeo, Laos
- Northeastern University // Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization, Masaka, Uganda
- Northwestern University // HOPE Center, Ho, Ghana
- Penn State University // ACUDESBAL, Baja Lempa, El Salvador
- University of Virginia // BFT, Siem Reap, Cambodia
- University of Chicago // ASPAT, Callao, Peru
- University of Missouri-Kansas City // KCRC, Bushenyi District, Uganda
4. WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE (4 projects)
- Bethel University // REDA, Svay Rieng, Cambodia
- CU-Boulder // Jawalekhel, Nepal
- DePaul University // ASOSAP, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
- Rhodes College // AMOS, Managua, Nicaragua
5. INCOME GENERATION (5 projects)
- Boston College // CCC-UNSCH, Ayacucho, Peru
- CU-Boulder // Jawalekhel, Nepal
- Florida State University // ARM, Orissa, India
- George Washington University // RVCP, Huye District, Rwanda
- University of Denver // BSDA, Kampong Cham, Cambodia
6. CAPACITY BUILDING (16 projects)
- Brown University // U-Tena, Nairobi, Kenya
- Cornell University // CEMOPLAF, Guayaqil, Ecuador
- CU-Boulder // Jawalekhel, Nepal
- Duke University // Salud Sin Limites, Siuna, Nicaragua
- George Washington University // RVCP, Huye District, Rwanda
- Loyola University of Chicago // Jambi Huasi, Otavalo, Ecuador
- Princeton University // MAO, Montgomery, Alabama
- Truman State University // Maison de Naissance, Torbeck, Haiti
- Tufts University // Nyaya Health, Achham, Nepal
- University of Michigan // Tiyatien Health, Zwedru, Liberia
- University of North Carolina // Health Alert Uganda, Gulu, Uganda
- University of Southern California // CareNet Ghana, Hohoe, Ghana
- UT-Austin // Clinica Ana Manganaro, Guarjila, El Salvador
- University of Chicago // ASPAT, Callao, Peru
- University of Washington // WDA, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Vanderbilt University // Dios Es Amor, Lima, Peru
Explore GlobeMed chapters, partners and projects: http://www.globemed.org/about/the-globemed-network/
Looking forward to continued, groundbreaking success as we kick off a new semester!
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