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Student project description: Miriam Huntley, Guatemala local high school educational resource website project, Totonicapán, Guatemala, January 2008 (photo credits: Miriam Huntley) |
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Student project description: Mike Hurley, Investigating the effects of strepA innoculation on rheumatic heart disease, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, IAP 2008 (photo credits: Mike Hurley) |
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Tanzanian dentist Daniel Maro (member of Health Care Ambassadors) checks an orphan's health. |
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Orphans, Mike Hurley, caretakers, Health Care Ambassadors members at the end of the day. |
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1. Vidya Ganapati, '10, Course 6, worked in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with The Global Child School to develop a year-long curriculum in organic agriculture for high-school-aged street children.
2. Miriam Huntley, '10, Course 3, traveled to Totonicapan, Guatemala, to create an educational resource website for Colegio Scientífico y Tecnológico “El Pedregal”, a local high school. Key aspects of the website will be incorporated into their curriculum.
3. Jessica Schirmer, '08, Course 8, worked in Delhi and Jaipur, India, with the Jaipur Foot Organization to document prosthetic fabrication techniques and the process of fitting amputees. The organization provides mobility aids at no cost to impoverished individuals.
4. Michael Hurley, '10, Course 3, engaged a variety of public health efforts in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania ranging from a pilot program to test the capability of a rapid strep A test in detecting rheumatic heart disease to a diabetes initiative with the Association of Private Hospital Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA). At Mwanamyamala Hospital, Mike prepared and presented pilot program training materials to clinicians. He also aided APHFTA in developing forms that allow physicians to keep track of a diabetes patient and streamline the health data collection process.
5. Meghana Limaye, '08, Course 20, worked with Maya Pedal, an NGO that produces bicycle-powered machines in Guatemala, to strategically assess their operating procedures. To make the office more efficient and effective, Meghana installed Internet access and taught staff members basic accounting and computer skills.
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