Students reflect on a successful year
Posted on Jun 4, 2008 by Victor Roy
Throughout 2007-2008, students deepened their involvement in GlobeMed throughout the country as more young leaders looked to engage in tackling poverty and poor health in communities across the world.
By the fall of 2008, GlobeMed will have 16 student teams at campuses across the country, with over 300 students involved in taking action for global health. Almost 100 students participated in the Annual Summit through which they gained knowledge and lessons from leaders and peers involved in the global health field. By learning about the challenges and solutions that affect people's lives in resource-limited settings and then applying this knowledge to projects that assist communities, students in GlobeMed are not only making an impact today but shaping a long-term commitment for the field.
At Northwestern, students raised over $7K just in the months of April and May for the H.O.P.E. Center in Ho, Ghana. They took a keen interest in learning about problems of malnutrition ailing children in the Volta region and worked with local leaders at the Center to support a community-based nutrition program that is today serving tens of villages in the district where the Center operates. Four students will work with the local staff in Ghana during the summer to learn about the public health system there while also working on small-scale projects, like training nurses on computer-skills, analyzing data from the nutrition program, and developing ideas for future projects through enthnographic research and asset-based assessments.
At GW, three students are currently in Rwanda working with the Rwanda Village Concept Project, a small NGO located in Butare, Rwanda. GW students are establishing a partnership with the communities near Butare and RVCP to help assist in the renovation and capacity-buliding of a village-level health center that has fallen into dis-repair and disuse. During the course of the year, students at GW engaged faculty and other leaders - including a Minister from Rwanda! - to learn about the challenges that face the country. They even hosted a medical student that works with RVCP on campus in order to strengthen their engagement and understanding of the projects that RVCP has currently spearheaded in order to improve health outcomes in the villages near Butare.
These are only two examples from a whole network of engaged and active students looking to make an impact in global health both today and into the future.
Looking forward, GlobeMed has an active summer planned, with the creation of a new global health curriculum through which students across the network will participate in learning and applying new information and lessons to their work in their chapter. GlobeMed members are also diligently evaluating their work from the past year, identifying best practices, and creating new and better resources that student members will use to enhane their work.
The Fall promises to be an exciting time for the network of students with the depth of these efforts.
Throughout 2007-2008, students deepened their involvement in GlobeMed throughout the country as more young leaders looked to engage in tackling poverty and poor health in communities across the world.
By the fall of 2008, GlobeMed will have 16 student teams at campuses across the country, with over 300 students involved in taking action for global health. Almost 100 students participated in the Annual Summit through which they gained knowledge and lessons from leaders and peers involved in the global health field. By learning about the challenges and solutions that affect people's lives in resource-limited settings and then applying this knowledge to projects that assist communities, students in GlobeMed are not only making an impact today but shaping a long-term commitment for the field.
At Northwestern, students raised over $7K just in the months of April and May for the H.O.P.E. Center in Ho, Ghana. They took a keen interest in learning about problems of malnutrition ailing children in the Volta region and worked with local leaders at the Center to support a community-based nutrition program that is today serving tens of villages in the district where the Center operates. Four students will work with the local staff in Ghana during the summer to learn about the public health system there while also working on small-scale projects, like training nurses on computer-skills, analyzing data from the nutrition program, and developing ideas for future projects through enthnographic research and asset-based assessments.
At GW, three students are currently in Rwanda working with the Rwanda Village Concept Project, a small NGO located in Butare, Rwanda. GW students are establishing a partnership with the communities near Butare and RVCP to help assist in the renovation and capacity-buliding of a village-level health center that has fallen into dis-repair and disuse. During the course of the year, students at GW engaged faculty and other leaders - including a Minister from Rwanda! - to learn about the challenges that face the country. They even hosted a medical student that works with RVCP on campus in order to strengthen their engagement and understanding of the projects that RVCP has currently spearheaded in order to improve health outcomes in the villages near Butare.
These are only two examples from a whole network of engaged and active students looking to make an impact in global health both today and into the future.
Looking forward, GlobeMed has an active summer planned, with the creation of a new global health curriculum through which students across the network will participate in learning and applying new information and lessons to their work in their chapter. GlobeMed members are also diligently evaluating their work from the past year, identifying best practices, and creating new and better resources that student members will use to enhane their work.
The Fall promises to be an exciting time for the network of students with the depth of these efforts.
