GLOBEMED AT YOUR BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY Lewisberg, PA
students fighting for global health equity!
2010 – 2011 ANNUAL REPORT
Bucknell University! Columbia University! Cornell University! CU-Boulder! Depaul University! Duke University! Florida State University! GWU! Georgetown University! Indiana University! Lawrence University! Loyola University! Middlebury College! Northeastern University!
Pastoral !
San Salvador, El Salvador!
CCC-UNSCH !
Ayacucho, Peru !
KIHEFO!
Kabale, Uganda!
GWED-G!
Gulu, Uganda!
CEPAIPA!
Guayaquil, Ecuador!
Himalyan Healthcare!
Jawalakhel, Nepal!
ASOSAP! Salud San Limite! ARM!
to improve the health of people living in poverty.
Boston College!
partner with grassroots organizations around the world
GlobeMed is a network of university students that
Amherst College!
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala! Siuna, Nicaragua! Orissa, India!
Rwanda Village Concept Project!
Huye District, Rwanda!
Minga Peru!
Iquitos, Peru!
CEMOPLAF-Cajabamba! FUNPRONID! La Primavera! Africa 2000 Network!
Cajabamba, Ecuador! Riobamba, Ecuador! La Primavera, Guatemala! Tororo, Uganda!
Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization!
Masaka, Uganda!
Northwestern University!
The HOPE Center!
Ho, Ghana!
Penn State University!
EAPSEC!
Princeton University! Rhodes College! Truman State University! University of Chicago! UCLA! University of Michigan! UMKC! UNC-Chapel Hill! University of Rochester! USC!
Jambi Hwasi! AMOS! Maison de Naissance! ASPAT! Amuru Youth Center!
Otavalo, Ecuador! Managua, Nicaragua! Torbeck, Haiti! Lima, Peru! Anaka, Uganda!
Tiyatien Health! Joy-Southfield Development Corp!
Zwedru, Liberia! Detroit, Michigan !
KCRC!
Bushenyi District, Uganda!
Health-Alert Uganda! Kallpa Iquitos! Care Net Ghana!
University of Texas-Austin!
Clinica Ana Manganaro!
Vanderbilt University!
Dios es Amor!
WashU in St. Louis!
Chiapas, Mexico!
UDHA!
Gulu, Uganda! Iquitos, Peru! Hohoe, Ghana! Guarjila, El Salvador! Lima, Peru! Iganga, Uganda!
GLOBEMED AT BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
TABLE OF CONTENTS ! 1 ! 2
MISSION STATEMENT!
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OUR PARTNER!
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OUR PROJECT!
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COMMUNITY BUILDING!
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ABOUT US!
GLOBALHEALTHU!
GRASSROOTS ONSITE WORK INTERNSHIP! GLOBEMED GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT! OUR FUTURE!
10 FINANCES! 11 STAY CONNECTED! 12 THANK YOU!
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
MISSION STATEMENT !
GLOBEMED AIMS TO STRENGTHEN THE MOVEMENT FOR GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY BY EMPOWERING STUDENTS AND COMMUNITIES TO WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE IMPOVERISHED
AROUND THE WORLD.
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our vision! ONE BILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD LACK ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS*. EACH DAY, MORE THAN 36,000 PEOPLE DIE PREVENTABLE DEATHS. WITHOUT ADDRESSING POVERTY AND POOR HEALTH, WE CANNOT BREAK THIS CYCLE OF SUFFERING. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HAVE THE PASSION AND ENERGY TO HELP TACKLE THIS CHALLENGE. GLOBEMED AIMS TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE BY ENGAGING AND TRAINING STUDENTS TO WORK WITH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE WORLD TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE IMPOVERISHED.
BY PARTNERING
STUDENTS AND COMMUNITIES TO COMBAT POVERTY AND POOR HEALTH, WE IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD TODAY AND SHAPE TOMORROW’S LEADERS ACROSS ALL PROFESSIONS WHO WILL SHARE A DEEP COMMITMENT TO
HEALTH EQUITY AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE. *World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001: A:acking Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
ABOUT US
GlobeMed at Bucknell University GlobeMed at Bucknell was conceived when two students from Bucknell attended the GlobeMed Global Health Summit in 2006. They returned with the inspiration and passion of the Summit and founded GlobeMed at Bucknell soon afterward. Our chapter was officially established and recognized by the University in 2007.! ! Our chapter formed our first partnership in 2007 with SEHC (Students for Equity in Healthcare), a group of medical students in Uganda striving to help their impoverished community. In the spring of 2009, the team decided to take a new direction and began partnership with the existing Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) to open a nutrition center, to be named the Kigezi Nutrition Rehabilitation Center. The center received its first patient in January 2010 and is admitting new patients as funds continue to stream in. Two students conducted our chapter’s first GROW trip in the summer of 2011 to visit our partner and continue strengthening the relationship we have developed.!
since our founding in september 2007 , our chapter has grown from to members.
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[KIGEZI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION] [WORKS IN KABALE, UGANDA] POPULATION: 44,600
KEY FACT: At roughly 50%, Kabale is the district with the highest rate of child malnutrition.!
Kabale is located nearly 400 km southwest from Kampala, Uganda’s political and economic center. Kabale’s location along transportation routes to Rwanda and the DRC provide most economic activity, coupled by wildlife tourism. Decades of political instability and devastating economic policies rendered Uganda one of the world’s poorest countries at the beginning of the decade. Most families work in agriculture and many are limited to one meal a day causing malnutrition, especially among the children. Kabale suffers an infant mortality rate of 181 per 1000 children born (nearly twice the national average) and 50% stunted growth for children under 5. High mortality rates result in high fertility rates for women and unregulated population growth, which in turn has lowered the value of labor and jeopardized economic stability in the region.! !
[About Kigezi Healthcare Foundation] FOUNDED IN 2000 The Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) opened in December 2000 to provide counseling, treatment, nutritional advice, social support and advocacy for local people living with HIV/AIDS. Gradually, KIHEFO expanded to adopt a more multifaceted approach to improving the health of Kabale by establishing a general health clinic, outreach programs with ill and impoverished community groups, agricultural enterprises and, most recently, the Kigezi Nutrition Rehabilitation Center. With support from GlobeMed at Bucknell after the partnership was founded in 2009, the nutrition center opened at the beginning of 2010 to help fight the district’s high rates of malnourishment, child illness, and infant mortality.! !
Partner Contacts: Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo - Executive Director/ Founder, ! Martin Ngabirano -Team Leader, Finance & Volunteer Projects!
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OUR PARTNER
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[KIGEZI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION]
GlobeMed at Bucknell University
[Why nutrition?]! The severely high rate malnutrition in the Kabale region stunts community development and weathers the community’s health in a number of ways. Living on a single, unchanging meal each day, children go to school too hungry to take advantage of their education, while men and women fall too ill to work. Therefore, in order to really get at the heart of the issues of health and poverty, we start at the bottom with the most basic of human needs - food.!
Reducing the prevalence of malnourishment in the children of Kabale, Uganda.! ! GlobeMed at Bucknell supported KIHEFO’s Nutrition Rehabilitation Center by funding nutritional treatment supplies such as protein supplements and powdered milk, outreach programs that identify sick and malnourished children in the surrounding communities and miscellaneous supplies such as weighing scales and mosquito nets.!
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OUR PROJECT
GLOBALHEALTHU globalhealthU is a GlobeMed designed curriculum that enables students to develop a critical understanding of issues in global health and apply this knowledge! to their work with communities around the world!
by the numbers
10 DISCUSSIONS!
02 EVENTS!
07 TOPICS! Sitting with some friends earlier in the semester, I remember listening to them talk about fundraising for various clubs and charities as if it was a chore and wondering, what makes fundraising for GlobeMed different? I don’t think it’s that our cause is any nobler or that the money we raise is better spent, but the fundraising we achieved for our partner was far from forced. While there are surely many reasons for this, I think the most prominent explanation is GlobalHealthU: a weekly reminder of what we’re all working toward. Through GlobalHealthU, we come to appreciate the extent and necessity of our task, as well as where progress is being made and where major issues remain. These discussions put all of our efforts in perspective and drive our work with the vital base of knowledge and commitment that other organizations can sometimes overlook.!
PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORKS OF! GLOBAL HEALTH! ! INFECTIOUS DISEASES! ! CONFLICT AND GLOBAL HEALTH! ! FOOD AND NUTRITION! ! LGBTQ AND GLOBAL HEALTH! ! GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH! ! RELIGION AND GLOBAL HEALTH!
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. !
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One of the best things about GlobeMed at Bucknell is that for all that we accomplished throughout the year, it never really seemed like ‘work.’ Through our club dinners, late-night baking sessions and weekends at the Farmer’s Market, what started for most as just another club quickly turned into a group of friends united by a passion for our cause. The weekly meetings became a welcome break from the day-to-day stresses of school and of other extra-curriculars, while our projects were an exciting way of sharing our passion and our friendship with our campus, our community and our partner.!
[GRASSROOTS ON-SITE WORK]
MAY 2011 – JUNE 2011!
Through Grassroots On-site Work (GROW) internships, students make a positive impact in the community by working alongside their partner organization to further ongoing and new projects.!
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The GROW interns develop a working relationship with KIHEFO and assess the social climate of kabale through direct involvement in several of kihefo’s programs. In the nutrition center, interns take height, weight and arm and head circumference measurements to input the data in kihefo’s ongoing child malnutrition survey. In the general clinic, the interns work closely with the staff and patients to learn about common health issues and treatments of the region. The interns participate in several outreach trips to discover the trials of village life and the programs instituted by KIHEFO to improve these highly impoverished communities.!
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GROW INTERNSHIP
2011 GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT
2011 DELEGATES: Danielle Brottman, Craig Tuller, Heather Wakeman!
“Looking around the room at the Summit showed me what solidarity looks like. Listening to my peers, the speakers and my new friends taught me the different paths of working together toward the same goal. All in all, it was extremely influential in the way I think and will continue to act in order to achieve universal global health.”! !
-- Heather Wakeman, c/o 2013!
April 7 – 10 in Evanston, IL! Featuring Honorary Keynote!
DR. JOIA MUKHERJEE! Chief Medical Officer, ! Partners in Health!
The 2011–2012 school year brings a world of potential for GlobeMed at Bucknell to expand our organization, educate our peers and further our mission to work hand-in-hand with our partner at improving the health and stability of Kabale, Uganda more than ever before. ! ! Beginning in the summer of 2011 with our first GROW trip, we hope to deepen and bolster our relationship with our partner organization, KIHEFO, in a way that we never before could through intimate, on-site work, and continue by bringing our experiences in Kabale back to Lewisburg in a way that helps our chapter, our campus and our local community better understand the importance of GlobeMed’s work and inspire participation and contributions on an unprecedented level. Moreover, we are fortunate enough to host our partner’s founder, Dr. Geoffrey Anguyo, early in the fall semester, providing us with a tremendous opportunity to bring much of KIHEFO directly to Bucknell through Dr. Anguyo’s knowledge and experience gained in 15 years of running his organization and his untiring devotion to improving the health and poverty status of his region. With these remarkable events kicking off the 2011-2012 school year, we aim to start out strong and only work our way forward from there with frequent, directed campaigns which will ultimately convey the need to address immediate issues in global health across our university and local community, achieve over $5,000 in fundraising and provide for the nutritional rehabilitation of over 100 children in Kabale, all the while strengthening the bonds within chapter, as well as with our campus, our community, the GlobeMed network, our partner and our project in the Nutrition Rehabilitation Center.!
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OUR FUTURE
CHAPTER FINANCES In 2010 – 2011, GlobeMed at Bucknell University raised $2,954 for Kigezi Healthcare Foundation to support projects in Kabale, Uganda. CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
OPERATIONS!
TOTAL REVENUE!
Revenue! Events !
$1,069!
$1,069!
Individual Giving!
$1,885!
$1,885!
University Funding!
$2,000!
$2,000!
GlobeMed National Office!
$500!
$500!
$2,500!
$5,454!
SUBTOTAL!
$2,954!
CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
OPERATIONS & GRANTS!
TOTAL!
Current Finances! Cash Reserves!
$1,000!
$713!
$1,713!
2011-2012 University Funding! EXISTING BALANCE!
$1,713!
Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network. [www.globemed.org/bucknell]!
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Find our chapter on [http://www.razoo.com/story/Globemedatbucknell] and make a donation to support our partner and project today.! !
WANT TO REACH US IN 2011 2012?
CONTACT: Craig Tuller E-MAIL: cat023@bucknell.edu
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STAY CONNECTED
EXECUTIVE BOARD Co-Presidents! Campaign Coordinators! Director of Finances! Director of GROW! Director of Communications!
Craig Tuller • cat023@bucknell.edu! Alyssa Gianino • akg006@bucknell.edu! Nisha Patel • nap005@bucknell.edu! Danielle Brottman • dmb056@bucknell.edu! Scott Eaton • see012@bucknell.edu! Craig Tuller • cat023@bucknell.edu! Megan Beecher • mkb018@bucknell.edu!
GlobeMed National Office! 620 Library Place! Evanston, IL 60201!