How do students make an impact in helping grassroots health organizations?
By working hard year-round with our partners, students make a valuable contribution to the partner health organization and the communities they serve. Furthermore, when students spend time “on-site” with the organization, they work on projects that are important and yet appropriate for student involvement (i.e. media creation, ethnographic studies, monitoring and evaluation, technology capacity-building, etc). Through an emphasis on responsible learning and community engagement, students make an immediate impact while also becoming better advocates and leaders for global health. GlobeMed recognizes that our support, driven by student leadership, can be “small” in financial terms when compared to large-scale organizations (ex. foundations, international NGOs); however, because our projects are defined and inspired by local leaders, our work has been empowering and vital. Many other notable organizations, such as the Global Fund for Women, have also shown that ‘smaller’ scale financial s
