2013-2014 GlobeMed at UCin Annual Report by GlobeMed

GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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About GlobeMed Mission

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.

Vision

We envision a world in which health â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the ability to not only survive but thrive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is possible for all people, regardless of where they call home.

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.

Message from the Co-Presidents Dear Friends, Firstly, we would like to thank you for all the support you have provided since our founding in 2011. In just three years, we have grown in a multitude of areas such as chapter membership, alumni network, number of supporters, and visibility on campus. With your help and dedication to our cause we have been able to raise over $36,000 for our partner Social Action for Women to implement three phases of our project the Community Health Outreach Program. The 2013-2014 academic year has been a year filled with accomplishments. We were able to recruit over a dozen incredible new members – seven of which will be serving on next year’s Executive Board. We successfully piloted our new Eboard position – External ghU Coordinator – and hold four campus-wide ghU events. Our first annual benefit dinner was a fantastic success with a keynote speech from GlobeMed’s Executive Director Maya Cohen and attendees ranging from interested students to the Dean of the College of Medicine at UC. This past year also sparked the creation of an alumni network of over a dozen past members. Overall, we could not be happier with how this year went and look forward to the future of our chapter. We would not be where we are today without all of our amazing members, friends, and supporters so, from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you. Sincerely, Ceejay Boyce & Mahima Venkatesh Co-Presidents 2013-2014 GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati

Since our founding in April 2011, our chapter has grown from 16 members to 53 members.

About Us

GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati

GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati was founded in 2011 and was the first undergraduate student organization on campus to be focused on global health and social justice. Since our founding we have been partnered with a grassroots health organization called Social Action for Women (SAW) in Mae Sot, Thailand. We have grown from 16 founding members to a chapter that is 53 members strong. We have started building our alumni network with a little over a dozen past GlobeMedders and have raised over $36,000 in the past three years. We have funded three phases of our Community Health Outreach program and sent three GROW teams to intern with SAW. In 2013, we were selected by the Student Activities Board as the Outstanding Student Organization of the Year.

Our Partnership Social Action for Women (SAW) Founded in 2000 Social Action for Women was founded to assist displaced Burmese women who had fled to and sought refuge in Mae Sot. Social Action for Women has now expanded its focus population to migrant workers and their families who have fled Burma. We have been working with SAW since 2011 to increase the migrant communities' knowledge on reproductive health, preventative health, and the importance of hygiene. While our work with SAW focuses mostly on health education, the organization's other programs focus on vocational training, shelter, mental health, trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and child education.

Mae Sot, Thailand Population: 120,569

Since 1962, Burmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oppressive military regime has crippled Burmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic development with isolationist policies and corruption. Human rights violations are widespread. To escape the tyranny, many Burmese continue to flee to Mae Sot in search of work and a better life. Fleeing Burmese women and children do not benefit from foreign assistance in refugee camps, and without legal status, they live in constant fear of deportation. Poverty, poor sanitation and sexual abuse are widespread.

KEY FACT: The Thailand-Burma border hosts 92,000 registered refugees from Burma and an estimated 54,000 unregistered asylumseekers.

Our Project GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati raised $14,000 to fund the third phase of the Community Health Outreach Program project, which will provide Burmese migrant workers and children personal and dental hygiene education in Mae Sot, Thailand.

BY THE NUMBERS: Key metric: CHOP Phase III will directly impact 600 Burmese migrant workers and 750 migrant children Cost of project: $14,000 What the money directly funded: transportation, educational materials, speakers, phone cards, and operational costs.

This year we focused on Phase III of the Community Health Outreach Program (CHOP) which focuses on increasing community reproductive health and basic preventative health knowledge through peer educator workshops in their own communities. As well as providing personal/dental hygiene awareness and education to the migrant schools. We funded the entire project from transportation costs, operational costs for peer educator trainings, phone cards for communication, and materials, food, and speakers for the personal hygiene workshops. This phase will directly impact 1,350 Burmese migrants and allow them to disseminate this new health knowledge within their communities.

Campaigns Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.

Event Title

Event Description

Revenue

Sandwiches that Partnered with local Potbelly's and received 15% of the purchases Save

$546.86

Chipotle for a Cause

Partnered with local Chipotle and received 50% of the purchases

$584.36

Charity Date Auction

Collaborated with the Asian American Association to hold a date auction at a local bar

Treats for Thailand

Sold homemade puppy chow to students on campus

Winter Giving Campaign

An individual giving campaign where we reached out to family and friends

$4531.42

Shine the Shoe

Helped clean the basketball arena to raise money

$800.00

First Annual GlobeMed Benefit Dinner

Held our first benefit dinner with Maya Cohen, Executive Director of GlobeMed, as our keynote

Late-Night Pancake Sale

Sold buttermilk and chocolate chip pancakes to students from 11PM-2AM

$1023.59 $106.00

$6387.52 $102.11

Campaigns Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.

Event Title

Event Description

Summit Merchandise Sale

Sold quarter-zip sweaters and scarves at Summit

$993.00

Malley’s Chocolate Bar Sale

Participated in a fundraiser with Malley’s Chocolate

$823.74

Hoagies for Hygiene

Partnered with local Potbelly’s and received 15% of the purchases

$282.14

Chipotle for a Cause

Partnered with local Chipotle and received 50% of the purchases

$157.21

Charity Golf Ball Drop

Sold golf balls as a part of lottery golf ball drop on campus

$312.00

GlobalGiving

Received donations after our winter giving campaign through the GlobalGiving platform

$358.50

Total funds raised for Social Action for Women in 2013-2014:

$16,960.93

Revenue

Since 2011, GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati has raised over $36,000 to support Social Action for Women as they educate migrant workers and their families about reproductive health, preventative health, and hygiene in Mae Sot, Thailand.

Chipotle for a Cause Campaign date: November 2, 2013 We partnered with a local Chipotle restaurant by campus to raise money for our partner Social Action for Women. For every person that came and mentioned his or her purchase was for GlobeMed, we received 50% of the profit. Over 150 students, family, and friends came to the event and we were able to raise $584.36.

First Annual GlobeMed Benefit Dinner Campaign date: March 1, 2014 Over 100 guests came to support our chapter at our first annual GlobeMed Benefit Dinner. In the company of friends, family members, and UC faculty, we celebrated the success of our organization over the past three years. The night included a video presentation about our partner Social Action for Women, a powerful speech from GlobeMed's Executive Director Maya Cohen, and a silent auction of gifts and items generously donated by Cincinnati businesses. It was an incredible success - raising over $3,200 for our Community Health Outreach Program.

Community Building 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.

Total number of chapter members in 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2014: 53 students Number of community-building events: 6 As many of our older members were graduating this year, community building played a significant role in helping new members feel comfortable in our organization. To help ease the transition from newbie to welcomed staff, we held chapter retreats and socials. These events really helped new members feel at home in our chapter and feel like they were a part of a community making a difference in the world. Another way we fostered camaraderie was through community service. Working together on something other than our project and partnership allowed everyone to learn new things about one another while sharing in a fun and rewarding experience in our Cincinnati community.

globalhealthU globalhealthU is GlobeMedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chapter as a whole learned a great deal in understanding the specific social, economic, and political issues in Myanmar more-so than before, although the process was long and often needed repetitions of specific information. I think those who have gone on GROW and will be on GROW teams in the future will be well equipped with knowledge and understanding of the specific circumstances that they will encounter. Those who will not, still now have the knowledge base to share the experiences of migrants and refugees on the border with peers, teachers, friends, and family. â&#x20AC;&#x153; -- Zefrem Vesel, c/o 2015

Pinwheels for Peace Event date: September 20, 2013 To celebrate the International Day of Peace, we had students decorate pinwheels and stick them in the grass of one of our large common green areas. We had the 30 students use pictures or words to illustrate how they feel about peace.

World AIDS Day Event date: December 2, 2013 To commemorate World AIDS Day we held a screening of the film "How to Survive a Plague" on campus. We had about 20 students come out and watch the film and join our discussion.

World Day of Social Justice February 20, 2014

[Which social injustice would you trash?] # of responses: 15 To inspire people to think about social injustices around the world and even within the community, we asked students to take a piece of trash and write down a social injustice they wished to â&#x20AC;&#x153;trash.â&#x20AC;? By standing by trashcans on our commons, we were able to reach a wide variety of students even if they were just reading our board instead of actively participating.

World Day of Social Justice February 20, 2014

2014 Summit “Breaking Barriers, Building Connections” 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. “Attending Summit and being surrounded by hundreds of other students who all had the common goal of making worldwide health equity a reality was an experience like no other. Being united like that with brilliant students from other GlobeMed chapters was inspiring, empowering, and made me even more passionate about the GlobeMed mission.” --Juliana Madzia, c/o 2017

2014 Delegates: Kirsten Boone Ceejay Boyce Codee Boyce Charles Ebersbacher Lakmal Ekanayake Juliana Madzia Joey Meeks

Sami Nandyal Ashley Nkadi Kathe Pocker Lydia Resnik Aanchal Srivastava Carolyn Stevenson Radhika Teli Mahima Venkatesh

[5] LENGTH OF STAY: [6 weeks] DATES OF TRAVEL: [5/12 - 6/ 18] # OF GROW INTERNS:

GROW Internship Grassroots Onsite Work 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. During the internship there were four main goals: 1) better understand the multitude of programs run by SAW so that as a chapter we can better understand SAW as a whole, 2) discern the strengths and weaknesses of our project, 3) observe current measurement and evaluation systems in place to help develop new systems for the future, and 4) develop deep and meaningful relationships with the SAW staff and facilitate interviews with SAW staff and community members.

“I set out on GROW knowing that I wouldn't be changing the world through this internship, but maybe if I was lucky, it would change mine … I was privileged with the opportunity to witness the lives and challenges faced by Burmese migrant workers living and Thailand. With this privilege comes a responsibility to take action and advocate for an end to the oppression of Burmese migrant people.” -- Dan Ruter, c/o 2014

Our Future GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati

Dear Friends, As we head into our fourth year of being a chapter at University of Cincinnati, we have many goals to build further on our past successes. We hope to increase our visibility on our main campus through more external globalhealthU events, bridge our two campuses – medical and uptown – by holding awareness and fundraising campaigns on both, expand our support network by reaching out to more members of the Cincinnati community with interest in global health and social justice, improve internal operations to help old and new staff feel fully involved in the work that we are going, and continue to strengthen our partnership with Social Action for Women as we plan for the next project we will work on together. We hope that all of our members, family, friends, and supporters feel as though they have played a role in our chapter’s success and we wish to continue building this network of support for GlobeMed’s mission. If you would like to financially support our chapter, we accept online donations on our GlobalGiving page (www.globalgiving.org/projects/globemedatcincinnati). Through this platform you will be able to see exactly what your money is going towards when you visit the page as well as review the updates we have been sending, and will continue to send, about our projects’ progress since we joined the site in 2012.

We look forward to sharing new successes with all of you in the summer of 2015! Sincerely, Ceejay & Codee Boyce Co-Presidents 2014-2015 GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati

“GlobeMed has been the most influential aspects of my college experience … I know that armed with the passion and leadership skills I have developed from being part of GlobeMed, I truly can have an impact on the movement for Global Health equity.” -- Stephanie Lux, c/o 2014

Finances In 2013-2014, GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati raised $16960.93 for Social Action for Women to support projects in Mae Sot, Thailand.

Revenue Events (Campaigns) Individuals

$12091.01 $4869.92

University

$0.00

Corporations

$0.00

Foundations

$0.00

Internal Chapter Revenue

$0.00

National Office Launch Grant TOTAL REVENUE

NO $16960.93

Expenses Campaigns

$3861.49

Operations

$296.62

TOTAL EXPENSES

$4158.11

Sent to Partner Total sent to partner that was fundraised in the 2013-2014 academic year

$8845.49

Total sent to partner that was fundraised prior to the 2013-2014 academic year

$1154.51

TOTAL SENT TO PARTNER IN 2013-2014 Current Cash Position

$10000.00 $3957.33

Stay Connected GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati

Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network. www.globemed.org/impact/cincinnati â&#x20AC;&#x153;Likeâ&#x20AC;? us on Facebook to find out about upcoming events. www.facebook.com/globemedatuc

Follow us on twitter at @GlobeMedatUC Follow our blog and join in on the discussion. http://globemedatcincinnati.tumblr.com/

Check out our photos on http://globemed.smugmug.com/GlobeMedatCincinnati Find our chapter on GlobalGiving and make a donation to support our partner and project today. www.globalgiving.org/projects/globemedatcincinnati Email us at ucin@globemed.org to find out how you can get involved!

Executive Board GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati External Co-President

Ceejay Boyce

| ceejayboyce@gmail.com

Internal Co-President

Mahima Venkatesh

| venkatmb@mail.uc.edu

Dan Ruter

| ruterdi@mail.uc.edu

globalhealthU Coordinator

Zef Vesel

| zeffylee@gmail.com

globalhealthU Coordinator

Lydia Resnik

| resniklm@mail.uc.edu

globalhealthU Coordinator

Kathe Pocker

| pockerke@mail.uc.edu

Campaign Coordinator

Codee Boyce

| codeeboyce@gmail.com

Campaign Coordinator

Maddie Niederkorn

| madeline.niederkorn@gmail.com

GROW Coordinator

Co-Director of Partnership

Charles Ebersbacher | cebersbacher@gmail.com

Co-Director of Partnership

Radhika Teli

| radhikateli24@gmail.com

Caycee Boyce

| cayceeboyce@gmail.com

Joey Meeks

| meeksjm@mail.uc.edu

Shahana Prakash

| prakassa@mail.uc.edu

Director of Communications & Design Director of Community Building Director of Finances

Supporters A sincere thanks to the following advocates, mentors, donors, and colleagues for making our 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2014 year a great success:

INDIVIDUALS Dr. Jason Blackard Maya Cohen Chef David Robinson

ORGANIZATIONS Asian American Association University Funding Board Student Activities Board

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