By Emily Kim and Anna Layman | Co-Presidents
Dear supporters of GlobeMed at UC,
We are excited to share our updates with you as our spring semester at the University of Cincinnati has ended, and summer semester has begun. Even though we as a chapter are going through another transition from one academic year to the next, our partner Social Action for Women (SAW) continues to thrive on its track to better the lives of Burmese migrants on the Thai-Burma border.
First off, you are hearing from some new voices! As our outgoing co-presidents Jayla Burton and Mckenzie Ackemyer have graduated, Anna Layman and I are grateful and excited to take on the responsibility of co-presidency for the 2018-2019 year. As GlobeMed members since the fall of 2015, we are both so thankful to have seen GlobeMed at UC grow over the past three years, and we are enthusiastic to grow with it in our final months with GlobeMed and SAW. Going into the rest of the summer and the fall, we hope to strengthen our recruitment efforts, build a tight-knit community within our chapter and with SAW, create a comprehensive outreach strategy, and improve our capacity building for future chapters of GlobeMed at UC. We humbly ask for your support throughout the next several months as our chapter and partnership continue to grow.
Speaking of growing, our GROW team of five chapter members is currently working alongside Social Action for Women in Mae Sot during May and June. Their two main projects are producing a collective autoethnography to capture their experiences that can be shared with our larger campus community and supporters like you. They are also hoping to improve SAW’s ability to attract sponsorship from other large sources of funding by producing a promotional video with material captured by past and current GROW teams. We are so excited to see and share what they create. If you would like to follow their journey in real time, follow them on Snapchat at ucgrow2k18.
Back in the States, we have been continuing to organize fundraising efforts over the summer. As our new E-Board for the 2018-2019 year has been selected, each leader has been brainstorming new ways of advocating for our partner, educating our community, and learning from others. We will also be further reflecting on our 5th Annual Benefit Dinner, held on March 23rd, 2018. As many of you know, we were very successful in our efforts to raise money for SAW, as we grossed over $9000 thanks to your generous support. We hope to culminate our thoughts and reflections as well as strengthen friendships in our E-Board retreat in July.
Again, we thank you for your continued support of GlobeMed at UC. If you have any inquiries, don’t hesitate to email either of us at ucin@globmed .org. We are excited to see what the summer will bring, and we hope you will be along for the journey.
Yours in health,
Emily Kim and Anna Layman
GlobeMed at UC Co-Presidents
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