Elizabeth Schilling

University of Connecticut

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Medical Brigades at UConn is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The UConn chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran, Panamanian, and also Ghana community members annually. Global Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Please help us to raise money to send volunteers from UCONN to honduras and to being along all the necessary medication

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Jan 05	Volunteer Activity: Jan 2012 UConn Medical Brigade - Honduras

Jan 2012 UConn Medical Brigade - Honduras

End Date: Jan 11, 2012 12:00 AM

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Volunteer Activity Message

Volunteers on the Medical and Dental Brigades will be working closely together to provide quality health initiatives to a community that otherwise has limited access to health care. Volunteers will spend three days in a community in order to optimize the amount of time patients are able to spend with the physicians and dentists. Each patient will receive a physician consultation, teeth cleaning and a fluoride treatment as well as have access to pap smears, prostate exams and restorative dental care as necessary. Volunteers will have the opportunity to take patient vitals, obtain patient history and current symptoms, shadow and assist licensed physicians and dentists, participate in preventative education, and fill prescriptions under a licensed pharmacist. Volunteers will become familiar with the prevalent health issues in their community and learn about how to prevent and treat those illnesses. These brigades provide each volunteer with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a specific community while gaining real life experience in the field of international medicine and dentistry.

Volunteer Goals

Program Goal: $0.00 / Airfare Goal: $0.00

Anonymous donated $360

Dec 21, 2011 08:08 PM

salvatore Coppola donated $50

Dec 07, 2011 09:51 PM

bonnie j habyan donated $50

Saying "Good luck! Keep up the good work."

Dec 03, 2011 07:10 AM

Rosemary Corsi donated $40

Saying "We are very proud of you, Mr & Mrs Corsi"

Nov 25, 2011 09:09 AM

elizabeth a schilling donated $125

Saying "From Steve and Grandma"

Nov 22, 2011 06:24 AM

Patricia Patterson donated $40

Saying "Good Luck...We are so proud of you!!! Alex and Patti Patterson"

Nov 20, 2011 04:27 PM

John P. Tavlarios donated $500

Saying "Best of Luck!"

Nov 14, 2011 07:43 PM

Margaret McCormack donated $25

Saying "Liz, what a blessing you will be to these people!"

Nov 14, 2011 05:24 PM

Lewis J Franklin Jr donated $25

Nov 10, 2011 11:41 AM

Anonymous donated $10

Nov 01, 2011 11:48 AM

Anonymous donated $25

Oct 17, 2011 05:01 PM