From May 16 to June 26 this summer, I travelled to the Grace Care Center (GCC) girl’s orphanage in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The purpose of my project there was to aid a group of Ann Arbor-based physicians in determining the causes and forms of psychological trauma affecting the children at GCC. I was also objectively…
Category: 2016
The Wallenberg International Summer Travel Award allows selected students to take part in a community service project or civic participation anywhere in the world.
Kaylla Cantilina
In the summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to travel to Dolatpura, a small rural farming village in Gujarat, India, to work with local women to build cleaner, more efficient cook stoves. I worked with an NGO there called the Setco Foundation, which seeks to among other things, empower women and provide education/basic health…
Alexander Goggins
This past summer I was fortunate enough to spend some time living in local Afro-Ecuadorian communities in northern Ecuador. During this time, I worked on the research project of a Ph.D. candidate and conducted community outreach activities. The project examined the relationship between broiler chicken husbandry and antibiotic resistant bacteria in humans. This involved conducting…
Lawrence Lee
This summer, I worked with Epicentre, the research organization of Doctors Without Borders in Jordan at a reconstructive surgical hospital which serves victims of conflict from Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, and Syria. Since the hospital’s beginning in 2006, it has served over 3,000 patients, all free of charge. However, many patients arrive for surgery with antibiotic…
Maggie Shope
Over the summer, I volunteered through a program called UBELONG as a physical education teacher at a strictly Spanish-speaking elementary school in Cusco, Peru for 7 weeks. My responsibilities were not clearly defined, so I had the responsibility and privilege of making myself useful in a variety of ways. Some days, I would come to…
John Shaver
Nursing “I have been privileged to spend the last several weeks working with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) here in South Africa. I, along with another student from the University of Michigan, am primarily serving by aiding in the transition from one phase to the next of a multi-site study in South Africa and…
Molly Green
My internship was at the International Center at the University of Bayreuth in Bayreuth, Germany along with the Transkulturelle Kompetenz und Gesundheit (TKG) Projekt, Refugee Housing Centers and the City of Bayreuth. The mission was to identify the needs of the stakeholders and community involved in working with refugees in the Bayreuth area. My position…