the project activities which are teaching sessions at primary schools on hygiene,water and sanitation especially on hand washing at critical moments,home and school hygiene,body hygiene,cloths ...are the main topics which are covered in each class for student in order to maintain the good hygiene standards and health in general.
the project have finished teaching sessions at nyanza primary for 2011 academic year where volunteers discussed the hygiene and sanitation with about 800 students including staff.now 2012 academic year the project will continue to educate hygiene ,water and sanitation at the other schools up to october at the end of academic year ,the teaching sessions had begin in january at the beginning of the academic year 2012 .
students,staff and parents of students from MATYAZO PRIMARY SCHOOL which is the new school where the teaching sessions are being done are very happy for the initiative of volunteers from hygiene,water and sanitation program who will be with them for this period of the 2012 academic year while increasing the awareness on hygiene and sanitation,"we will learn more on hygiene and sanitation from you" said the headmastress of the school.
Over the last few months, we have been unable to continue this project due to lack of funds. Our ultimate goals are to provide an educational program for a total of 2400 children that will teach them proper hygienic techniques for hand washing and maintaining clean water and to install water systems in the three schools that will improve the children's access to clean water. We are also currently undergoing a change in the leadership of this project so establishing a secure, more permanent system for those in charge of this project has been our top priority over fundraising.
We are hopeful that over the summer, when the Grassroots Onsite Work Interns from GlobeMed at the George Washington University arrive, we will be able to work with them in order to assess what else can be done to bring back more awareness of our project to the George Washington University and the United States at large. During the time in which the Grassroots Onsite Work Interns are in Rwanda, we are also planning on learning more about social media networking so that we can better spread our message and goals through sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Wordpress. We will also be learning about grant writing opportunities so that we can maximize the potential for fundraising and get this project off of the ground.
This has truly been the most exciting month of the year for GlobeMed at GWU and RVCP. In addition to our usual fundraising events, such as hosting a Bar Night at Rugby in Georgetown and a coffee house performance night at Bourbon Coffee, we successfully held our first annual Benefit Dinner and participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU).
Our Benefit Dinner took place on March 24, 2012 in the City View Room of 1959 E St and featured a panel of public health experts, including CEO and President of EngenderHealth Pamela Barnes, Dr. Alan Greenburg, Mehret Mandefro, Professor Richard Skolnick, Dr. Zohray Talib, and Dr. Tamara Henry. The night was truly spectacular. We were thoroughly honored and humbled by the support that we saw in the attendees and learned so much from the thoughtful discussion of the speakers. The topics of conversation ranged from establishing health equity promoting non-profit organizations abroad to the barriers to healthcare in the United States today. We were able to fundraise about $1,000 for RVCP through ticket sales to DC residents and public health students at GW, our silent auction, and donations.
This past weekend, we were also incredibly fortunate to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University, hosted by Bill Clinton on GW's Foggy Bottom campus. GlobeMed at GWU was represented by two groups of four people, representing two commitments to action regarding our participation in fundraising for the Huye Health Clinic. We committed to continuing our income generation project in RVCP's Maternal Health Education Program and to refurbishing the clinic's structural deficits in the next year. We attended two days of plenaries and workshops with the purpose of improving our committments and networking and attended a service project on the third day of the conference. The most exciting part of this weekend was that CGIU paid for a member of RVCP, Vincent Ndebwnimana, to speak in a workshop about how to motivate the youth. Maya Cohen, the executive director of GlobeMed's national office, also joined Vincent on this panel. In short, CGIU gave us the chance to network with some truly inspiring people while also giving us some quality time with a member of our partner organization.
As far as our partnership with RVCP goes, we are preparing to send this year's Grassroots Onsite Work (GROW) team to Rwanda on May 17th. In addition to our annual committment to fundraise the clinic's Maternal Health Education Program (MHEP), we are currently fundraising to help improve the clinic's walls and roof to increase the functionality of the clinic. Our GROW team is also hard at work on seeking to improve the monitoring and evaluation methods of MHEP so that new record keeping systems can be put into place by the end of the summer. We are approximately $2,000 short of our fundraising goal so far and while we have a few more fundraising events left before the end of the school year, any contribution that you can offer, no matter how small, will really help us and RVCP to maximize the benefits that the mothers enrolled in the Maternal Health Education Program and Income Generation Project will receive. Thank you for your continued support!
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