With the support of a Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award, I was able to work with Tiyatien Health, a grassroots community health organization in Zwedru, Liberia. Tiyatien Health implements an innovative community health worker (CHW) program throughout Southeast Liberia, which functions to disperse life-saving health services to Liberia’s rural poor. The objective of my project,…
Category: 2011
The Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award allows selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the world.
Balachandran Gadaguntla Radhakrishnan
I worked with Pudiyador, an NGO in Chennai, India that works towards community empowerment primarily by ensuring an engaged childhood through various educational activities. The project that I undertook was towards establishing metrics for gauging a child’s overall growth. Developed through consultations with experts from different fields, it entails measures such as health records and…
Nicholas Gutschow
I spent part of my summer in Kenya working on clean drinking and hand washing water treatment, storage, and distribution systems in a series of rural primary schools in Kenya. A few years ago the Kenyan Ministry of Education launched a pilot of these systems in 33 schools in cooperation with the NGO IPA, and…
Tara Clancy
This summer I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India, two major cities in an area where millions are threatened by groundwater contamination of arsenic. I learned Bengali, the language spoken in this area and met with researchers at six universities and three different non-governmental organizations who are working on arsenic mitigation projects in Bangladesh…
Alex O’Dell
I continued my work this summer into the Fall of 2011. I am focused on filling the gaps in tuberculosis patient care in India by utilizing locally appropriate communication technologies. I am based in Mumbai and operate in coordination with the World Health Organization, Medic Mobile (www.medicmobile.org), and the Revised National TB Controlle Program. The…
Priscila Bercea
This past summer I spent 3 months working as a field intern in the Isiolo District of Kenya for the nonprofit organization Global Health Network International (GHNI). After previously volunteering with GHNI in the summer of 2009 I was inspired to apply to the School of Public Health and through my master’s requirements had the…
Anoud Allouzi
I spent my summer interning at Mizan Law Group for Human Rights in Amman-Jordan. This internship was my first experience working with Human Rights. Mizan focuses on three categories of disadvantaged people in the Jordanian community. Women and children suffering from Domestic Violence, cases of people who were/are tortured in Jordanian jails by police officers,…
Melissa Allan
I traveled to Manjushri Di-Chen Buddhist Learning Center (MDBLC), a school for young Tibetan Buddhist monks in Pharping, Nepal to assist the staff in implementing an interactive health education and hygiene campaign. MDBLC’s vision is to provide a modern education alongside a traditional monastic curriculum, in hopes of preserving Tibetan Buddhism and culture in a…