By Grace Lincenberg | Director of Finance
With less than two months before their departure, the GROW interns are hard a work preparing for their trip. Three weeks ago, the four interns – Ayush, Katie, Sana, and Elsa – attended the GROW Conference in Evanston, IL. There they shared best practices and future concerns with the other interns from across the nation. Each group of interns faces their own unique challenges when visiting their partner organizations, but they are able to work together to find feasible solutions.
For this summer, the interns have a lot of fresh ideas on how to be able to bring the information they learn on the GROW trip back to us in the US. One is to give all the school children disposable cameras to take pictures of the things that they value most. They’re also looking in to filming a few “day-in-the-life” stories of the local villagers. Lastly, they’ll evaluate the impact of the greenhouse that the GROW interns helped build last year.
Other than planning for the GROW trip, our chapter has had an exciting semester. On March 12th, we had the opportunity to meet our role model, physician, and medical anthropologist, Dr. Paul Farmer. Dr. Farmer spoke about the recent triumphalism about the West African Ebola outbreak that is currently circulating in the media. He encouraged us to spread the word that the outbreak isn’t over, and furthermore, that the healthcare infrastructure has been completely demolished from the outbreak and will need to be built back up.
Consequently, our chapter has started a social media movement to give thanks to the Ebola caregivers and show our solidarity both in the present in the future. If you’d like to get involved in this movement, please check out our website, facebook page, or email us at ucboulder@globemed.org.
Thanks again for all your support!
In solidarity,
Grace
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