Well-baby Care Vaccination Program in rural Haiti

            We’re over halfway there! Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we’ve already been able to exceed our expectations, and have raised $5,600 of our $10,000 yearly goal in our first semester alone--and we’re hoping to raise an even greater amount during our second semester. Our GlobeMed members are currently busy at work planning fundraisers that we hope will provide Haiti's Maison de Naissance birthing clinic with the needed funds to continue their mission.

            As usual, we have several fundraising campaigns that we will but putting on throughout this semester. Our members will be working to put on a trivia night, a Haitian Celebration event, a breakfast sale, our Global Get Down event, and several small business campaigns. As always, all funds raised by these events will be donated directly to Maison de Naissance. In addition to our fundraising efforts, we also believe that promoting awareness is extremely important to our mission, which is why this semester we will be putting on two awareness events: Global Health Action Week, and World Day of Social Justice. We hope that these events will help to raise awareness and concern for global health issues across campus. Additionally, we will once again be sending a group of our GlobeMed members to Maison de Naissance this summer in order to help strengthen the partnership between Maison de Naissance and GlobeMed's Truman chapter.

            Given that your support is so incredibly important to us, we’d like to take this opportunity to ask you, our donors, how you think we could work together with you to draw wider support for the cause. It can’t be overstated how much of an impact that you have on the lives of the mothers who rely on Maison de Naissance, and we can’t thank you enough for your continued generosity.

            GlobeMed Love

            We’ve been busy!  Through the work of our members and the generosity of you, our donors, we’ve already put a sizable dent in our yearly goal, and we still have more plans for the rest of this semester.  Our semester was kicked off as new members joined, and we got to work on organizing the campaigns we had planned.  The first campaign that we got to was our 5k Run, followed by a Fall Festival, and most recently a Benefit Dinner with an art auction attached. As always, all of the funds we raised through our campaigns will be sent to the Haitian birthing clinic that we are partnered with, Maison de Naissance.

            Our members have had a lot of additional motivation this semester through what we learned from the members that went on the Grass Roots On-sight Work Internship (GROW Trip), in addition to the news that Maison de Naissance was facing a suspension of services due to issues with expenses. As a result, the campaigns that we’ve put out so far throughout this semester have been met with a lot of enthusiasm on both the part of our own GlobeMed members, and the donors who participated in the event.  In addition to our regular campaigns, we are also currently working on our Individual Giving campaign in order to encourage individuals to donate to Maison de Naissance.  The idea for this Individual Giving campaign is to explain why we, as GlobeMed members, care about and give to the Haitian birthing clinic that we’re partnered with, and hopefully inspire others to do the same.

            Thanks to the work that our members put in, and the amazing support that we’ve received, we’re already well on our way to achieving this year’s goal of raising $10,000 for the Maison de Naissance birthing clinic.  As always, we’re very excited for our future campaigns and projects.  We’re currently planning what we’ll be doing next semester in order to keep raising money for Haitian mothers and babies.  The contributions we receive from you, the donors, are what makes all of this possible.  No one can thank you enough for the difference you all help to make.

            GlobeMed Love