Mercedes Hall

Berkeley, CA

Passionate About:

Patient Advocacy
Patient Empowerment
Culturally Sensitive Care

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UC Berkeley Medical Outreach trip to Peru, May 2020



Mercedes's Message

Friends and Family,

I am excited to announce that this year I will be co-leading a new cohort of aspiring physicians and all around wonderful people to Peru for our annual medical outreach trip. Last year I had the exciting privilege to join a group in the DR, and made connections and embraced experiences that have reformed the ways I think about public health, healthcare reform, and patient-physician interactions. If you are willing and able, your support is instrumental in this experience and will help fund the prescriptions supplied in our VAW (Volunteers Around the World) clinics while in Peru. These prescriptions range from anti-parasitic and creams, to multivitamins and cough serums -- remedies too often taken for granted, and inaccessible to so many around the world.

My cohort is also continuing to recruit new volunteers, and you could join our group in the medical clinics of Peru this summer. I am happy to share photos and memories of my experiences with this program last summer, or share more about our mission as an organization.

Volunteer your time. Donate your Energy.

Volunteer Activity Description

Join the UC Berkeley chapter as they lead a Medical Outreach trip to Peru this upcoming summer! Volunteers will work in mobile medical clinics, where they will have the opportunity to intake patients, conduct public health surveys, take vitals, shadow local physicians, work in the pharmacy, teach education classes, and much more! If you’re interested in joining, contact us for more information!

VAW at UC Berkeley will be opening up mobile medical clinics for local communities during their time in Peru.

One of the most exciting and important parts of volunteering with VAW is bringing medication to the less fortunate. In 2019, VAW treated over 35,000 patients and we aspire to treat over 45,000 in 2020. One of the things that make our mobile clinics unique is that we not only triage and diagnose patients, but also provide them with the basic medications needed. Fundraising for medications is a huge part of creating a successful mobile clinic to help the local communities with effective care.

**Note: airfare goal will be updated once flights are purchased, tentatively the week of [put week that your team’s tickets will be purchased, eg, February 3-7].

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