2010 – 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

GLOBEMED at GEORGE

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Washington D.C.

students fighting for global health equity

Amherst College Pastoral San Salvador, El Salvador

Boston College CCC-UNSCH Ayacucho, Peru

Bucknell University KIHEFO Kabale, Uganda

Columbia University GWED-G Gulu, Uganda

Cornell University CEPAIPA Guayaquil, Ecuador

CU-Boulder Himalyan Healthcare Jawalakhel, Nepal

Depaul University ASOSAP Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Duke University Salud San Limite Siuna, Nicaragua

Florida State University ARM Orissa, India

GWU Rwanda Village Concept Project Huye District, Rwanda

Georgetown University Minga Peru Iquitos, Peru

Indiana University CEMOPLAF-Cajabamba Cajabamba, Ecuador

Lawrence University FUNPRONID Riobamba, Ecuador

Loyola University La Primavera La Primavera, Guatemala

Middlebury College Africa 2000 Network Tororo, Uganda

Northeastern University Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization Masaka, Uganda

Northwestern University The HOPE Center Ho, Ghana

Penn State University EAPSEC Chiapas, Mexico

Princeton University Jambi Hwasi Otavalo, Ecuador

Rhodes College AMOS Managua, Nicaragua

Truman State University Maison de Naissance Torbeck, Haiti

University of Chicago ASPAT Lima, Peru

UCLA Amuru Youth Center Anaka, Uganda

University of Michigan Tiyatien Health

Joy-Southfield Development Corp

Zwedru, Liberia

Detroit, Michigan

UMKC KCRC Bushenyi District, Uganda

UNC-Chapel Hill Health-Alert Uganda Gulu, Uganda

University of Rochester Kallpa Iquitos Iquitos, Peru

USC Care Net Ghana Hohoe, Ghana

University of Texas-Austin Clinica Ana Manganaro Guarjila, El Salvador

Vanderbilt University Dios es Amor Lima, Peru

WashU in St. Louis UDHA Iganga, Uganda

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 MISSION STATEMENT

2 ABOUT US

3 OUR PARTNER

5 OUR PROJECT

6 CAMPAIGNS

7 GLOBALHEALTHU

8 COMMUNITY BUILDING

9 GRASSROOTS ON-SITE

WORK INTERNSHIP

10 WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL

JUSTICE

12 GLOBEMED GLOBAL

HEALTH SUMMIT

13 OUR FUTURE

14 FINANCES

15 STAY CONNECTED

16 THANK YOU

Dear family, friends and supporters,

It has been my honor to co-lead the GWU chapter of

GlobeMed through it's most successful year yet.

Because we lost several of our most devoted members

at the end of the 2009-2010 school year, my co-

president and I were at first fearful that we would not be

able to recreate the enthusiasm and passion that are so

intrinsic to our organization. However, we accepted 15

new members last fall, and several new members in the

spring even with turnover. We hosted several

memorable events, including a Harry Potter themed bar

night and a 5 k run, and were consequently able to

finance the construction of a waiting room for the clinic

our partner organization, RVCP, maintains.

Alyssa Smaldino and I were thrilled as we achieved

success after success as an organization, and our

whole group was brought closer together when

members from RVCP visited in early February. Overall,

it has been an incredibly rewarding and educational

year. Without all of your support, encouragement, and

commitment, however, we would not have been able to

reach our high-set goals.

On behalf of Alyssa Smaldino and myself, I thank you

for all your hard work and dedicated time - it has meant

the difference between being a successful organization

and an outstanding one.

Sincerely,

Eliza Mette

Co-President of GlobeMed at George Washington

University

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GLOBEMED AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

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.

MISSION STATEMENT

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.

our vision

*World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

ABOUT US GlobeMed at George Washington University

GlobeMed at GWU was

founded in the Spring of

2007. The previous

December, GlobeMed's Co-

Founders, Victor Roy and

Peter Luckow, discovered a

university-based organization

in Rwanda called the

Rwanda Village Concept

Project (RVCP). They

partnered this organization

with GlobeMed at GWU that

spring and a beautiful

partnership was born.

Since then, GlobeMed at

GWU has funded four

projects that RVCP has

implemented. In total,

GlobeMed at GWU has

raised over $30,000 and has

witnessed this progress by

sending a total of 16 students

to intern in Huye, Rwanda

with RVCP.

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RWANDA VILLAGE CONCEPT PROJECT

KEY FACT: Infant mortality rate

is 64.04 deaths/1,000 live births.

KEY FACT: Expected fertility rate

is 5 children per woman.

[About Rwanda Village

Concept Project]

FOUNDED IN 2000

RVCP was founded under the goal of providing

sustainable healthcare fueled by self-reliant

citizens. Students from the local National

University noticed that there was a great need for

healthcare in rural Huye, and that they could

empower local citizens to build an infrastructure

for these services. Their main projects are

income generation, maternal health, malaria

prevention, and family health and planning.

Globemed GW joined them in 2005 to support

their goals of an updated clinic that would serve

as an information and healthcare hub for families

across the district.

[WORKS IN HUYE DISTRICT,

RWANDA]

POPULATION: 290,677

Since the Rwandan Genocide, the Huye District has been

working on improving infrastructure and the standard of

living. The majority of the population farms for a living (90%)

and family incomes are low; however, the local government is

focused on progress. Local government agencies cite

maternal health and improving the health of the next

generations as their greatest healthcare goal. There is a large

emphasis on education in healthcare services, which makes

sense due to the fact that the National University is in the

district. Still, there is a deficit of service centers, equipment

and supplies, and doctors in the area for routine procedures.

Partner Contact: NDEBWANIMANA VINCENT, ndebwanimana@gmail.com

A MESSAGE FROM OUR PARTNER

Dear all,

On behalf of Rwanda-VCP,the community we serve and the International

participants, I would like to express specials thanks to the GLOBEMED GWU

chapter and RVCP members for the experience and commitment they have

shown and shared during this year of 2011.

Rwanda Village Concept Project is an international voluntary organization run by

students at National University of Rwanda. The overall goal of Rwanda-VCP is to

improve the living standards and health conditions of underprivileged communities

and to develop capacities of students involved in the project, it is in that regards we

have partnered with that chapter to reach our goal through the Huye health clinic

capacity building as well as the Maternal health care education program.

This year, I have been experiencing working with this chapter , and this lead to

the great achievement on behalf of RVCP and the whole community we serve in

General.

February 2011, I visited this Chapter for better understanding of Globe med and

how they works especially where they get the funds to support our activities, during

this time I have got the clear explanations about the efforts they are using to get

the funds , through the events organized in Washington DC and I attended one of

these event and we collaborate on the creation of the global giving pages which is

the tool for online fundraising

May 2011, we hosted the 5 members from Globe med to work on the fields, it has

been a great achieving team, they help on the follow up of last year target group of

Maternal Health care Education Program(MHEP), at the same time the

Construction of the waiting room to be used as class for MHEP sessions and the

place where the patients can sit and wait for service from the health clinic instead

of lying down as they used to do before.

After that, they helped on the initiation of the new target group made of the

women with malnourished kids, they have really committed on the preparations

and development of the new teaching materials .They have been also able to

share the knowledge and skills with RVCP members about proposals writing and

different strategies of fundraising, the information which was really important for

our members and the organization in general.

Working with this Chapter, helped me to know how much is really valuable to have

a certain time to communicate with partners to share updates and plan together

what you want to do, not only in case of any inquiry or starting and ending the

project. Based on the great partnership between RVCP and GLOBEMED GWU

chapter, both students’ volunteering organizations, we will continue to use

knowledge and experience shared during this work to shape our personality for

better society .

VINCENT NDEBWANIMANA

RVCP OUTGOING COORDINATOR

2011 RVCP ADVISOR

RWANDA VILLAGE CONCEPT PROJECT

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GlobeMed at George Washington University

[Why maternal

health?] Maternal health is an often overlooked

issue in healthcare. With a high infant

mortality rate and a lack of information

accessible to mothers in the area, it is

important to fill this gap in healthcare

equality. When the initial assessment

was run, we found that many mothers

engaged in unhealthy practices while

pregnant, did not have access to the

healthcare they needed before, during

or after delivery, and often did not

have information on family planning so

that their subsequent pregnancies

could be positive experiences. Also,

the healthcare that they did have was

not sustainable.

Supporting the he collaborative effort of students to

improve the health outcomes and futures of

deserving women in Huye, Rwanda.

In the 2010-2011 school year we made great success by funding a

new waiting room for the Huye Health Clinic, as well as an

expansion of our Maternal Health & Income Generation Program.

The program itself consists of fifty women, whose children are the

fifty most malnourished children at the clinic. The ten education

sessions that are conducted prior to the distribution of goats were

held in the new waiting room this year. The clinic itself is

accessible to a population of nearly 60,000 people, and we hope to

screen focus groups on the television in the waiting room that all

visitors can view.

50 FAMILIES WILL BE

POSITIVELY IMPACTED.

$15,600 TO PURCHASE WAITING

ROOM MATERIALS, GOATS, LAND, AND,

EDUCATION MATERIALS

CAMPAIGNS

EVENTS TITLE EVENT DESCRIPTION $ MONEY

RAISED

Fashion Show-

From the Runway

to Rwanda

A Fashion show and brunch that included Vincent, director of our partner

organization, speaking at intermission. 314

Hydrate Yourself,

Help Humanity

During Colonial's Weekend, members of GlobeMed at GWU raised awareness

for the right to clean, accessible water while raising money to better the health of

the Huye community.

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Poker Night A memorable night where GlobeMedders and fellow members of the GW

community competed in a large poker tournament for special prizes, including

airline vouchers, while raising money for RVCP.

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Bar Night/ Harry

Potter Party

On the night of the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,

GlobeMedders hosted a Harry Potter themed bar night at Cabanas. Guests

dressed up as their favorite Harry Potter characters, ordered their favorite Harry

Potter drinks, participated in raffles, and learned about some of the most

prominent health issues faced in Rwanda.

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Run for Rwanda A 5K run through GW's Mount Vernon Campus where the fastest runners

received passes to future GlobeMed events and learned about RVCP 811

GlobeMed BBQ GlobeMedders relieved some stress from final exams by enjoying an outdoor

BBQ at GW's Kogan Plaza, sharing our mission with fellow students, and raising

money for RVCP by selling donated student art.

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Global Giving GlobeMed at GWU utilized this incredible tool to fundraise for our cause and

share regular updates, photos, and reports about our Maternal Health project.

Global Giving allowed us to spread GlobeMed's message of public health equity

internationally and even received support from major corporations such as

Oprah.com.

11,737

Bake Sales GlobeMed at GWU used their knowledge of college life and maxmized profits in

late night bake sales that catered to the tastes of students on the weekends. This

was an easy way to support our chapter and helped campaign teams bond.

930

RwandArt Sale GWU students donated art to GlobeMed's cause and allowed GlobeMedders to

sell their art in an art sale in the GWU's Kogan Plaza. We drummed up a lot of

awareness for GlobeMed with students, professors, and DC residents while

promoting our cause

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Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for

GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.

$16,278 TOTAL FUNDS RAISED FOR RWANDA

VILLAGE CONCEPT PROJECT IN

2010 – 2011:

Since 2007, GlobeMed at GWU has raised over $30,000 to implement electricity and running

water at the Huye Health Clinic; build a new waiting room for the clinic; and provide 100 women

with goats and plots of land, as well as extensive maternal health education.

GLOBALHEALTHU

GlobalhealthU is one of the key components of weekly

staff meetings where we discuss the topics presented to

us from the National Office, answer discussion questions

that our GlobalhealthU coordinators bring to the

meetings, and learn from each other. I think that

Globalhealth U is critical to our chapter for two reasons.

The first is that while we have many public health majors

in the chapter who regularly read about global health

issues for academic purposes, many of our staff

members hold other majors. In this sense, GlobalhealthU

acts as a way to make sure that everyone is on the same

page. Second, GlobalhealthU sessions allow us to

broaden our knowledge and perspectives of what we are

working for. I truly believe that this sets us apart from

other student run organizations in that our GlobeMed

experience is not limited to what we learn from our

partner; rather we are able to learn about public health

from a global perspective.

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

23 DISCUSSIONS

by the numbers

02 EVENTS

07 TOPICS

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

TOTAL # OF CHAPTER MEMBERS:

# OF COMMUNITY BUILDING EVENTS:

# OF HOURS VOLUNTEERED:

This year GlobeMed at GWU formed a partnership with

Community of Hope, a local organization in Washington

D.C., who provide services to homeless and low-income

individuals and families, including health care. Our

chapter is excited to start working with women in Hope

Apartments, a transitional housing program by

Community of Hope. We will start a health education

program for these women that is similar to our program

in Butare, Rwanda.

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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.

GROW INTERNSHIP

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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# OF GLOBEMED GROW INTERNS:

LENGTH OF STAY:

WORK DESCRIPTION: While in Rwanda, the 5 GROW interns worked

with students at the National University of Rwanda

to enhance the Maternal Health Education

Program. Every Sunday, the GROW team, several

representatives from RVCP, and 50 women would

gather at the newly constructed waiting room for a

session on maternal health education. The GROW

team worked to improve the teaching methods of

the sessions and created an effective evaluation

system to track to progress of the women and the

program.

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“This experience in Rwanda has been nothing short of incredible. Working with RVCP, meeting and getting to know the women in the Maternal Health Education Program, seeing the country, hearing the personal histories of so many. All of it was well worth any discomfort we felt, well worth the travel, and well worth the lack of American daily staples like washing machines and showerheads. Experiences like this give us new perspectives on our live and the world we live in. The women we met live with perseverance, motivation, and love. They taught us how to be better women and better individuals. I know that I am even more dedicated to our project in Rwanda now and will work even harder this coming school year to ensure the success of the coming Maternal Health sessions, and to ensure the future success of the Huye Clinic. ”

-- Katy Stewart, 2011 GROW Internship Coordinator, c/o 2013

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WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

GLOBEMED AT GEORGE WASHINGTON

UNIVERSITY joined 31 other GlobeMed chapters

across the nation in a network-wide commemoration

of the 3rd Annual World Day of Social Justice on

February 20, 2011, by asking students, professors,

and community members on campus an open-

ended, thought provoking question relating to social

justice.

OUR QUESTION: How many people out of 100

do you think have AIDS in DC? In Rwanda?

BEHIND THE SCENES: We took a poster board

with the questions on it out into the main 'University

Yard' of our campus and asked people passing by

to answer the question. The back of the board (or a

nearby wall) had numbers stuck to it with tape so

that participants could pick the numbers they

thought answered each question and place them on

the board. We then took a picture of each person

holding their answers on the sign. The point was

that DC actually has a AIDS rate worse than

Rwanda, and that if programs are implemented for

maternal health, they can work in the way that the

AIDS initiatives did.

How many people out

of 100 do you think

have AIDS in DC?

In Rwanda?

WE ASKED OVER 39 PEOPLE AT GEORGE WASHINGTON

UNIVERSITY. HERE’S HOW THEY RESPONDED >>

WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

GlobeMed at George Washington University asked 39 people to answer the question,

View more responses: www.imagine2030.org/wdsj

How many people out of 100 do you

think have AIDS in DC? In Rwanda?

PHOTO RESPONSES

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April 7 – 10 in Evanston, IL Featuring Honorary Keynote

DR. JOIA MUKHERJEE Chief Medical Officer,

Partners in Health

2011 GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT

“Summit went above and beyond what I expected. The

keynote speakers shared some really amazing,

inspiring lessons, and overall I left summit having

learned a great deal about a great deal.”

-- Samantha Danko, c/o 2014

2011 DELEGATES: Alex Boulos, Britt Lockhart, Emma Morse, Sarah

Grossman, Alyssa Smaldino, Samantha Danko, Eliza Mette,Jaishri Atri

OUR FUTURE

After having such a successful year, we have spent

this summer working on solidifying plans for our

upcoming campaigns, planning an all-staff retreat

and executive board retreat, and continuing to

develop a partnership with DC's Community of

Hope.

We plan to raise our fundraising goal to $18,000

which we will meet by executing what we know to

be successful campaigns as well as exploring new

campaign ideas to better spread our message

across GW and DC. This will allow us to expand our

Income Generation Project with RVCP and provide

the women who receive aid from the Huye Health

Clinic with even more opportunities for health care

and sustainable income. We also hope to further

our relationship with Community of Hope by

scheduling bi-monthly excursions to the Hope

Apartments where we will develop maternal health

programs for homeless DC mothers.

We excitedly look forward to next year's challenges

with renewed enthusiasm and dedication to our

partners, our GlobeMed family, and our desire to

promote global health equity.

To learn more about our projects and to see how

you can be a part of the movement for global health

equity, visit:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/globemed-rvcp-

huye-clinic/.

“The people that I have met in GlobeMed and RVCP have taught me more than

any class ever could. I have learned the importance of listening, reflecting, and

working together, in solidarity. After visiting Rwanda, not only do I know now that

our work is meaningful, but I also know that it is essential.”

– Alyssa Smaldino, c/o 2013

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CAMPAIGN

DONATIONS OPERATIONS

TOTAL

REVENUE

Revenue

Events $4,541 $4,152

Individual Giving $11,737 $11,737

University Funding $500 $500

Corporations $50 $50

Operations (i.e.

member dues) $500 $500

SUBTOTAL $16,828 $500 $17,328

CAMPAIGN

DONATIONS

OPERATIONS &

GRANTS TOTAL

Current Finances

Cash Reserves $3,496 $1,500 $4,996

2011-2012

University Funding $1,000 $1,000

EXISTING

BALANCE $3,496 $2,500 $5,996

In 2010 – 2011, GlobeMed at George Washington University raised $16,828 for Rwanda Village Concept Project to support projects in Huye District, Rwanda.

CHAPTER FINANCES

STAY CONNECTED

Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network.

http://globemed.org/thegwu/

“Like” us on Facebook to find out about upcoming events.

http://www.facebook.com/globemedgw

WANT TO

REACH US

IN 2011 -

2012?

CONTACT: Melissa Wong E-MAIL: gwu@globemed.org

Follow our blog and chime in on the discussion.

http://globemedgw.wordpress.com

Check out our photos on

http://globemed.smugmug.com/GlobeMed-at-George-

Washington

Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/GlobeMedGWU

Find our chapter on http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/globemed-

rvcp-huye-clinic/ and make a donation to support our partner and

project today.

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EXECUTIVE BOARD

A sincere thanks to the following advocates, mentors, donors, and colleagues for making

our 2010 – 2011 year a great success:

INDIVIDUALS

Bianca Nguyen,

Maya Cohen,

Vincent Ndebwnimana,

Eliphaz Tuyisenge,

Arielle Krasner,

Cherry Vasconcellos,

Kristy Bipes,

Marybeth Nayfield,

Michael Hannan,

Emma Martin,

Mayra Espinoza

Co-Presidents Eliza Mette • emette90@gmail.com

Alyssa Smaldino • alyssa.smaldino@gmail.com

Directors of

globalhealthU

Emma Morse • emmorse3@gmail.com

Carolin Perez • carolingperez@gmail.com

Campaign

Coordinators

Sara Grossman • sgro328@gmail.com

Carl Bruce • cbruce@gwmail.gwu.edu

Director of

Community

Building

Carrie Hopper • csh1@gwmail.gwu.edu

Director of

Finances Jaishri Atri • jaishri@gwmail.gwu.edu

Director of GROW Katy Stewart • katy@gwmail.gwu.edu

Director of

Communications Michelle Kuhn • mkuhn@gwmail.gwu.edu

ORGANIZATIONS

Global Giving,

The Rwandan Village Concept Project,

Community of Hope

GlobeMed 2010 – 2011 Board of

Directors

Marjorie Craig Benton

Paurvi Bhatt

Jobi Cates

David W. Cromer, MD

Lee Greenhouse (Treasurer)

Brian T. Hanson (Chair)

Ken Lehman

Erin Linville

Peter Luckow

Jenny Merdinger

Victor Roy

Keith Sarpolis, MD (Secretary)

GlobeMed | National Office

MAIL

P.O. Box 292

Evanston, IL 60204

PHONE

847.467.2143

WEBSITE

www.globemed.org

E-MAIL info@globemed.org

GlobeMed is a 501(c)(3) independent non-profit based in Evanston, Illinois,

with chapters at 32 universities across the United States.