Anna Seo

Williamsburg, VA

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Healthcare is something that everyone should be entitled to. My passion for aiding those in need and doing anything I can in my power to relieve their pain and help improve their quality of life is what drives me as a student and as a member of the brigades at William & Mary. My participation in this trip is so much more than just community service and "voluntourism;" this is about sustainability and I want to be a part of a program that will help teach families in Nicaragua how to maintain their health after providing immediate, necessary care and medications in a way that is easy for them to understand and suitable for their lifestyle so that they will live a better, healthier life even after we leave.

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Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

College of William and Mary is a chapter of Global Medical Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.