I have signed up to participate in a 10-day Medical, and Public Health Brigade to Ghana in August of 2013.

I am now raising money to fund my trip to Ghana which includes transportation, housing, food, and medical supplies to be used on the trip.

For those of you who are unaware, I have, in the past few years, decided to pursue a career in medicine and am doing all that I can to assure myself that this is the right path for me. I have had the opportunity volunteer at Anne and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital serving in the Pediatric Oncology Ward. I feel that this experience will afford me with the opportunity to not only serve others, but also enlighten me on aspects of medicine and modern health care that I may not encounter anywhere else.
We will be visiting the Central Region of Ghana. In this particular area of Ghana, communities suffer from extreme challenges with water, sanitation, malaria, and poor access to medicine and poverty. In many communities, children must walk more than 2 hours to junior high, and 3 hours to the nearest health care clinic. In others, the drinking water is collected from small, brown and green puddles from which animals also drink and children splash and play.
We will be providing doctor care, medicine, and health education workshops for those in the community. On this trip, I will be given the opportunity to shadow licensed doctors in medical consultations and assist in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists.

Any donation toward my trip is greatly appreciated. Even if you can't donate at this time, there are several months before my trip and donations can be made up until July 1st, 2013.

Thank you for all your love and support!