2012-2013 Annual Report
GlobeMed at University of Notre Dame
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Pastoral de La Salud | San Salvador, El Salvador ICOD Action Network | Lyantonde, Uganda! Rural Economic Development Association | Svay Rieng, Cambodia Ungano Tena | Nairobi, Kenya WOPLAH | Western Kenya GWED-G | Gulu, Uganda CEPAIPA | Guayaquil, Ecuador Himalayan Health Care | Jawalakhel, Nepal Courage Is Change | Denver, Colorado Kachin Women’s Association Thailand | Chiang Mai, Thailand Salud Sin Límites | Siuna, Nicaragua MAP Foundation | Chiang Mai, Thailand Rwanda Village Concept Project | Butare, Rwanda Community of Hope| Washington, D.C. Primeros Pasos | Quetzaltenango, Guatemala CEMOPLAF Cajabamba | Cajabamba, Ecuador Health Development Initiative | Kigali, Rwanda Jambi Huasi | Otovalo, Ecuador Hope Through Health | Kara, Togo Gardens for Health International | Gasabo, Rwanda Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization | Masaka, Uganda Adonai Child Development Center| Namugoga, Uganda Center for Community Health Promotion | Hanoi, Vietnam ACUDESBAL | Bajo Lempa, El Salvador Medical AIDS Outreach | Montgomery, Alabama A Ministry of Sharing Health and Hope | Managua, Nicaragua CSSD | Phnom Penh, Cambodia Maison de Naissance | Torbeck, Haiti Nyaya Health | Achham, Nepal ASPAT | Lima, Peru Social Action for Women | Mae Sot, Thailand Nwoya Youth Center | Anaka, Uganda BSDA | Kampong Cham, Cambodia Tiyatien Health | Zwedru, Liberia Joy-Southfield Community Development Corp.| Detroit, Michigan KCRC | Bushenyi District, Uganda Health Alert Uganda | Gulu, Uganda PEDA | Vientiane, Laos Lwala Community Alliance | Lwala, Kenya Kallpa Iquitos | Iquitos, Peru Alternative for Rural Movement | Odisha, India CareNet Ghana | Hohoe, Ghana Clinica Ana Manganaro | Guarjila, El Salvador Build Your Future Today Center | Siem Reap, Cambodia Women’s Development Association | Phnom Penh, Cambodia COWS | Kampong Thom, Cambodia Dios es Amor | Lima, Peru Uganda Development and Health Associates | Iganga, Uganda Kigezi Healthcare Foundation| Kabale, Uganda Burmese Women’s Union | Chiang Mai, Thailand
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 – the ability to not only survive but thrive – 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.
Presidents’ Message Globemed at university of notre dame Dear Friends of GlobeMed at Notre Dame, Thank you so much for your continued support of GlobeMed at Notre Dame during the 2012-2013 academic year. In our second year as an organization, we more than doubled our previous year’s fundraising total from $3,000 to $8,000, increased our membership and presence on campus, and most importantly, strengthened our relationship with our partner, The Population Education and Development Association (PEDA). This year was full of so many events, memories, discussions, debates, and literal heavy lifting. Our members hosted a concession stand for the Notre Dame vs. Stanford Football Game, bought and sold Christmas sweaters for our Ugly Christmas Sweater Sale, reached out to family and friends to support our Individual Giving Campaign, went door to door selling Spring Break tanks—and then lugged the tanks in boxes across campus! We also had lively globalhealthU discussion on issues in Global Health and Development, such as maternal mortality, the Girl Effect, and health care provision in US prisons. We debated what is most important in delivering health care, and looked at issues from different perspectives. We look forward to our upcoming GROW internship, and know we will learn so much from our team when they return. This report summarizes our year, quantitatively and qualitatively, but we hope that the intangibles also shine through. We couldn't have done any of this without the effort, dedication, and passion of our members and supporters, so for that we are eternally grateful. Thank you again for your support and your encouragement. We look forward to continuing the journey and growing the movement! In Solidarity, Jessica Puricelli, Jennifer Perugini, and Genevieve Gill-Wiehl Co-Presidents 2012-2013
GlobeMed at university of notre dame
About Us In 2011, a Notre Dame student--interested in becoming more involved in learning about issues in global health and taking action against inequalities--discovered an impressive student-led organization called GlobeMed. Inspired by their commitment and their innovation, and wanting to harness the power of the Notre Dame student body, she gathered like-minded individuals and founded GlobeMed at Notre Dame. Since then, GlobeMed at Notre Dame has raised over $11,000 towards Malaria education and prevention in rural Laos through their partnership with The Population Education and Development Association.
since our founding in August 2011, our chapter has grown from 09 to 28 members.
Our Partnership Population education and development association Vientiane, Laos Population: Colonized by the French in 1893, and occupied by Japanese troops during World War II, Laos was finally granted full independence in 1954. However, there was great political tension between the communists, neutralists and rightists in the newly independent Laos. A civil war gripped the nation until 1975, when the Lao People's Democratic Republic was established. During the Vietnam War in the 1970s, the United States heavily bombed Laos in an attempt to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail and draw out the Northern Vietnamese communists. Roughly 30% of bombs dropped failed to detonate and unexploded ordnance has caused over 13,000 deaths since 1975—and remains a major concern in Laos. Roughly 85% of the population lives in rural areas and there is a very high risk of contracting an infectious disease such as Malaria or Tuberculosis throughout the country. This risk is exacerbated by poor public health infrastructure and sanitation systems.
Population Education and Development Association Founded in 2001 Our partner organization was founded in August 2001 as the Youth Fellowship for Action on Development. When nongovernmental organizations were approved by the government in 2004, the group was reorganized as The Promotion for Education and Development. They have recently changed their name to The Population Education and Development Association to reflect their community based approach. PEDA's vision is "to promote education to reduce socioeconomic and health impacts in vulnerable communities" and their mission is "to promote local expertise to become key resources to strengthen and develop better human resource quality within the community based upon participating approaches" and thereby effectively "reduce socioeconomic and health impacts to reach development stability." PEDA specializes in areas of sexual reproductive health, malaria prevention, tuberculosis prevention, HIV/AIDS/STI prevention and human trafficking prevention. They also have livestock and agriculture programs to improve life within their communities.
KEY FACT: Laos is ranked 181st in health expenditure (US is 1st). KEY FACT: 70% of the population in Laos is at risk for malaria.
Our Project
Impact Area:
Communicable Disease Prevention
POPULATION EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
600
Educational items purchased for distribution in 10 rural villages
Why Communicable Disease Prevention? 70% of the population in Laos is at risk for malaria, and the risk of serious complications is even higher in rural villages where there is limited knowledge regarding the symptoms, treatment, or prevention of malaria. Of primary concern are people who live in remote areas, particularly poor, marginalized populations, including ethnic minority groups, migrants and forest workers/ goers, who still remain at risk of malaria. In order to deliver eective malaria prevention and control to this population, a shift from facility-based to community based approach is needed.
GlobeMed at Notre Dane aims to raise $8,000 to fund a Malaria Education Campaign in ten remote Lao villages. PEDA's Behavior Change Communication approach uses a community based outreach approach that utilizes educational materials and peer educators to increase community knowledge and prevent severe illness or death from malaria. Currently, GlobeMed at Notre Dame is aiming to raise $8,000 to fund a malaria educational campaign that will teach vulnerable communities in ten rural villages surrounding Vientiane, Laos the symptoms of malaria, the transmission modes, the importance of seeking treatment, the proper malaria health care facility to visit, and the impact of bed nets for prevention. The goal is to have 70% of the target community members to have a better knowledge of malaria, in order that its spread be prevented and controlled. This will be assessed by interviews and surveys of community members at dierent time intervals after the campaigns.
Notre Dame Campaigns Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.
Event Title
Event Description
Bake Sale
Chapter members bonded over baking cookies and decorating them with the GlobeMed logo, then donated the proceeds of the bake sale to our project!
$67.04
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Sale
Chapter members used liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream and donated the proceeds of the ice cream sale to our project!
$135.52
Concession Stand Chapter members hosted a concession
stand prior to the Notre Dame vs Stanford football game in the fall, selling hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, and soda to fans on campus for the game.
Revenue
$452.38
International Education Week Hot Chocolate Stand
Chapter members sold hot chocolate at an international education week event on campus.
$68.50
Student Activities Officer Roller Skating Night
GlobeMed at Notre Dame was paid to provide staff for a Roller Skating Night event hosted by the Student Activities Office at Notre Dame.
$300
Wake Forest Scarf and Hot Chocolate Sale
Chapter members sold scarves and hot chocolate prior to the Notre Dame vs Wake Forest football game on a frosty day in the fall.
$115.91
Since 2011, GlobeMed at Notre Dame has raised over $11,000 to support PEDA's malaria education and health-care seeking behavioral change campaigns in rural Lao villages.
Notre Dame Campaigns Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.
Event Title
Event Description
Ugly Christmas Sweater Sale
In our first annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Sale, Chapter Members celebrated the Christmas Season with a Christmas Sweater Sale.
Individual Giving Through our Razoo platform, wwww.razoo.com/globemedatnotredame Campaign
Revenue $717.02
$3459.50
chapter members reached out to family and friends who generously donated to our project.
Student Activities Office Junior Parents Weekend Event
GlobeMed at Notre Dame was paid to provide staff for a Junior Parents Weekend event hosted by the Student Activities Office at Notre Dame.
$300
Five Guys Night
Fundraiser at our local Five Guys restaurant.
$144.13
Spring Break Tanks
GlobeMed sold Spring Break themed tanks prior to spring break.
$8000
$2240
Total funds raised for PEDA in 2012-2013
Since 2011, GlobeMed at Notre Dame has raised over $11,000 to support PEDA's malaria education and health-care seeking behavioral change campaigns in rural Lao villages.
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.
Hi! Our names are Mike and Rachel, and we really enjoyed coordinating globalhealthU for our chapter's first full year! The slower pace let us use one or two of the awesome ghU resources with the whole group at each meeting, and still have ample time for some great small group discussions! Although we all pretty much agreed that health was a human right (shocking, right?), our staff had a lot of different ideas about what exactly that entailed and how to deliver it! The big activities helped present multiple viewpoints about things, and small group allowed our staff to draw from their own awesome experiences, and led to some very fruitful discussions, with everyone participating! GhU helped our chapter to understand some of the difficult issues and decisions organizations like our partner have to face all the time!
2012-2013 CURRICULUM
Expanding the Dialogue on Health and Human Rights
KEY QUESTIONS
Why do human rights exist?
Is health a human right? Who has more rights than others? How are rights influenced by one’s environment? How do we translate human rights into action?
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.
28 # OF COMMUNITY BUILDING EVENTS: 05 TOTAL # OF CHAPTER MEMBERS:
GlobeMed at Notre Dame values the input of all sta members and a close community. At our sta retreat, everyone brainstormed events for the semester, speed dated, and tied themselves into a human knot. We also had other bonding events during the year for chapter members to get to know each other outside of meetings!
GROW Internship Grassroots On-site Work
03 LENGTH OF STAY: 3 weeks JULY 2013 – AUGUST 2013
# OF GROW INTERNS:
WORK DESCRIPTION:
Our team will spend much of our first internship working to build PEDA’s organizational capacities in a number of areas including proposal writing, project design and management, monitoring and evaluation, and English skills. Some of our specific duties will involve updating and maintaining the website, helping to develop and edit project proposals, assisting in writing project progress reports and annual reports. We will also help build the research skills of the PEDA technical staff and assist in strengthening other areas of institutional capacity as necessary. We expect our work will help expand PEDA’s ability to impact their community.
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. The spring semester was hectic as we rushed to find funding for our trip to Laos, but now that the funding is secured, I have enjoyed learning as much as I can about the culture and customs of this country to prepare for our trip. – Erin Garfield, c/o 2014
World Day of Social Justice “INJUSTICE anywhere is a THREAT to JUSTICE everywhere.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
GLOBEMED AT NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY joined 49 other GlobeMed chapters across the nation in a network-wide commemoration of the 5rd Annual World Day of Social Justice on February 20, 2013, by asking students, professors, and community members on campus an open-ended, thought provoking question relating to social justice. OUR QUESTION
Where does change come from? BEHIND THE SCENES: As students hoping to make a difference in the world, we started with the quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." We then asked ourselves--where does this change come from, and how can we promote it? We then shortened this question to "Where does change come from" in order to leave the responses open to interpretation. We were excited by the responses we received from each other and from the campus community!
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We asked over people at University of Notre Dame, here’s how they responded >>> The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed February 20th as World Day of Social Justice in 2007. Observation of WDSJ supports efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social well-being and justice for all.
World Day of Social Justice GlobeMed at University of Notre Dame asked 22 people to answer the question / to fill in the blank‌
Where does change come from?
View more photos and quotes at globemed.org/wdsj
2013 Summit The student momentum 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.
2013 DELEGATES: Claire Brady, Rachel Chisausky, Michael Diaz, Genevieve GillWiehl, Liam Kane
I absolutely loved my first year as a part of Globe Med at Notre Dame, and the Summit provided the perfect finish – a culmination of all that we discussed and achieved as a club throughout the year as well as a motivation to keep learning, growing, and connecting. It was wonderful getting to know members of other chapters, exchanging ideas, and learning from each other’s experiences. The panel discussions and keynote speakers were inspiring and thought-provoking, challenging us to act on our convictions and reminding us that our actions really can be powerful. I can’t wait to return next year!.— Claire Brady, c/o 2015
Our Future GlobeMed at university of notre dame "GlobeMed meetings helped me listen to and understand so many different angles of the global health discussion, and working as ghU co-coordinator really helped me to develop my skills at facilitating heartfelt and open discussion with my peers, rather than controlling it! I know I'll use these lessons in my future ALL THE TIME!!!” – Rachel Chisausky, c/o 2013
GlobeMed at Notre Dame is thrilled to be entering our third year as a chapter. We grew immensely during our sophomore 2012-2013 campaign by increasing our membership, doubling our fundraising total from the previous year, and planning our first ever GROW Internship for the summer of 2013. Based on this strong foundation, we are convinced that our 2013-2014 campaign will be our biggest year yet. We look forward to learning more from our GROW team about our partner’s work on the ground in Laos, hosting our second annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Sale and Football Concession Stand (among other campaigns), and growing closer both within the chapter and the larger South Bend area. As we enter this year, we are placing a premium on community building. We hope to organize monthly service events with a local partner in South Bend and build relationships among chapter members through dinners and documentary watches so members can get to know each other outside of GlobeMed meetings. We also hope to partner with other campus organizations and institutes for fundraising and awareness events. All of this would not be possible without our dedicated members and friends of GlobeMed at Notre Dame. Please continue to support our mission by visiting www.razoo. com/globemedatnotredame.
Finances In 2012 – 2013, GlobeMed at University of Notre Dame raised $8000 for PEDA to support projects in Vientiane, Laos. Revenue Events (Campaigns)
$8953.17
Individuals
$3459.50
University
$0
Corporations
$144.13
Foundations
$0
Internal Chapter Revenue
$0
National Office Launch Grant
$0
TOTAL REVENUE
$12556.8
Expenses Campaigns
$4556.80
Operations
$344.76
TOTAL EXPENSES
$4901.56
Sent to Partner Total sent to partner that was fundraised in the 2012-2013 academic year Total sent to partner that was fundraised prior to the 2012-2013 academic year TOTAL SENT TO PARTNER IN 2012-2013 Current Cash Position
$8000 $0 $8000 $155.24
Stay Connected Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network: globemed.org/impact/notredame “Like” us on Facebook to find out about upcoming events. facebook.com/pages/GlobeMed-at-Notre-Dame/ 129643377128928?ref=hl Follow us on twitter at @globemedatND Follow our blog and join in on the discussion. globemedatnotredame.blogspot.com
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Executive Board Co-President
Jessica Puricelli
| jpuricel@nd.edu
Co-President
Jennifer Perugini (fall)
| jperugin@nd.edu
Co-President
Genevieve Gill-Wiehl (spring) | ggillwie@nd.edu
GROW Coordinator
Liam Kane
| lkane@nd.edu
globalhealthU Coordinator
Rachel Chisausky
| rchisaus@nd.edu
globalhealthU Coordinator
Michael Diaz
| mdiaz7@nd.edu
Campaign Coordinator
Katherine Spencer
| kspence2@nd.edu
Campaign Coordinator
Alexandra Searle
| asearle2@nd.edu
Director of Communications
Julia McSorley (fall)
| jmcsorle@nd.edu
Director of Communications
Gwyenth Sullivan (spring)
| gsulliv4@nd.edu
McKinzie Schulz
| mschulz3@nd.edu
Director of Finances
Jonathan Jou
| jjou@nd.edu
Staff/Eboard Liaison
Morgan Benson
| mbenson2@nd.edu
Director of Community Building
Supporters
A sincere thanks to the following advocates, mentors, donors, and colleagues for making our 2012 – 2013 year a great success:
THANK YOU
INDIVIDUALS Fr. Robert Dowd, Faculty Advisor Mr. David Mattingly, Student Activities Office Ms. Rosie McDowell, Center for Social Concerns All of our donors!!!
ORGANIZATIONS Five Guys Burgers and Fries
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