VAW Global Health Alliances

  • About VAW Global Health Alliances
    VAW Global Health Alliances (VAW Global) is a global health and development organization committed to cultivating sustainable and equitable partnerships with local communities and professionals through support and capacity-building for essential and accessible health services. Our focus is to work hand-in-hand with local initiatives and leaders to provide communities with improved access to medical, dental, and veterinary treatment, medication, nutritional security, clean water, and health education.

    VAW Global Health Alliances develops community health systems while providing interns the opportunity to work alongside experienced local healthcare professionals. VAW Global Outreach trips provide interns with an opportunity to work first hand with experienced local professionals in the fields of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and sustainable development.

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VAW Global's Ukraine Medical Operation

We are supporting a transitional Refugee shelter in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine (around 70 kilometers from the border with Poland). This place is one of the last remaining large cities that remains somewhat safe. Through close collaboration with couple of a brave and dedicated professionals, we strive towards raising resources so we can continue providing: - Shelter and beds for 35 people in Lviv, as well as offering a place for rest and recovery for the incoming refugees. We are hoping to expand these locations to be able to expand to other shelters. - Food for about 1000 people per day at the train station. - Support our Doctor who is working night shifts at a makeshift medical clinic at the train station, to treat people who have traveled for 24 to 36 hours standing up in a train to escape the conflict areas and have developed new health concerns from the long trip or have exacerbated existing health conditions. - Helping those same people move forward and out of Ukraine by arranging bus transportation to Romania. Mostly women and children traveling alone because the men and teen boys have to stay and fight. A bus with 25 people capacity cost of $300 for the trip to Romania. VAW Global has already sent $5000 and we are offering to help you send money to them as well. If you have been wanting to help and aren't sure how to get involved, this is a way to get funding to people on the ground that we personally know well, who are doing everything they can against an impossible situation. Click the donate button and help us support this cause. If you would like a tax write off for your donation, email mark@vawglobal.org so it can be managed through Humanitarian Social Innovations. *** Hola! Venimos colaborando con un Alberge de Refugiados Temporal en Lviv, una ciudad al oeste de Ucrania (alrededor de 70 kilómetros de la frontera con Polonia). Éste es uno de los pocos lugares que aún permanece relativamente a salvo. A través de un trabajo colaborativo muy cercano con doctors locales, una pareja valiente, comprometida y dedicada que está en Lviv, estamos esforzando por recaudar fondos para juntos continuar ayudando a los refugiados y facilitándoles lo siguiente: - Estamos brindando albergue y camas para 35 personas en Lviv. También acogemos y brindamos un espacio a los refugiados que recién llegan y necesitan descansar y recuperarse luego del viaje. Esperamos poder expandir esta capacidad para ofrecer más cobertura.  - Estamos ofreciendo comida diaria a más de 1000 personas en la estación de tren. - Estamos apoyando a doctores locales que están trabajando turnos nocturnos en la clínica médica que se ha implementado precariamente en la estación de tren para atender a los refugiados que llegan, luego de 24 a 36 horas de viaje en tren. Los refugiados viajan todo el recorrido de pie con el objetivo deescapar de las áreas de conflicto, este esfuerzo y exigencia física desarolla condiciones de salud precoupantes debido al viaje largo, exacerbando inclusive sus condiciones médicas existentes.  - Estamos ayudando a estas mismas personas a continuar su recorrido para salir de Ucrania. Les brindamos transporte en bus hasta Rumanía. En su mayoría, son mujeres y niños solamente, ya que hombres y adolescentes deben quedarse a pelear. Un bus para 25 personas para ir desde Lviv hasta Rumania cuesta alrededor de $300.  VAW Global ha enviado ya $5000 y estamos buscando tu apoyo. Si has estado deseando ayudar y no estás seguro cómo hacerlo o cómo involucrarte, ésta es una buena opción para destinar recursos de manera segura a quienes lo están necesitando. Tu donación llegará a buenas manos, a través de a personas, (confiables que conocemos bien) que están trabajando duro en el mismo lugar de los hechos, y que están haciendo todo lo posible en esta "situación imposible." Envía tu Donativo con el botón "DONATE" de ésta página y súmate a esta causa. Si quisieras un certificado para deducir impuestos en USA, envía un email a email mark@vawglobal.org para que tu donación pueda ser procesada através de Humanitarian Social Innovations.

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VAW Hospital Internship

Volunteers Around the World (VAW) is a humanitarian organization and social enterprise devoted to improving the standard of living for those that live in some of the most poverty stricken communities of the world. Our focus is to provide communities with access to medical treatment, medication, nutritional security, clean water, and health education. The VAW Hospital Internship gives students who are serious about a future in medicine the opportunity to work at one of the largest and most important trauma hospitals in the Dominican Republic. Students will interact with patients, take theoretical classes, and shadow physicians and residents.

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Volunteers Around the World, Global Chapter

Volunteers Around the World (VAW) is a humanitarian organization and social enterprise devoted to improving the standard of living for those that live in some of the most poverty stricken communities of the world. Our focus is to provide communities with access to medical and dental treatment, medication, nutritional security, clean water, and health education.

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