By Ellie Falletta | Director of Finance, G.R.O.W. Team Member 2013
GlobeMed at CU Boulder hit the ground running this semester with our Hustle for Health 5K and Holi Celebration! With over 175 participants registered it was one of our most successful events to date! We are lucky to share our success here in Colorado with our wonderful partner Himalayan HealthCare (HHC), who thanks to all of your support is creating tangible, measurable changes in rural Nepal! They have currently secured a partnership that will allow for over 40 latrines to be built this coming year, are training more locals to implement the efficient cookstove project and the goat program is well underway!
A breed of hybrid goats, which are better suited for the climate and have more meat have been purchased and are on their way to Tipling from Kathmandu as we speak! They will be distributed to the families that GlobeMed’s G.R.O.W. team selected after conducting an extensive community wide survey of the Kami Village of Tipling. Our G.R.O.W. interns this coming summer will have the opportunity to check in on this project and report back on the welfare of both the goat and families!
Currently HHC is focusing its administrative efforts on partnering with the local government agencies of the Dhading district to ensure that people in the villages of Tipling, Lapa and Shertrung are receiving the government services that they are entitled to. The group meet with many Local Development Officers, specifically the Chiefs of public health, education, agriculture, veterinary care and the village development committee secretary. HHC embraces the partnership model just like GlobeMed and all parties are hopeful that this collaboration will lead to even more effective programs in the future for these villages!
Please visit GlobeMed’s website at globemedcu.org to see our upcoming events for the semester as we work towards our goal of raising $30,000 for HHC this school year! As always, we deeply value your support and partnership and hope that you find the work we are accomplishing just as important as we do!
Happy Spring,
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