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284 out of 284 in Health
573 out of 573 in Pilot
992 out of 992 in Charitable
4003 out of 4003 Overall
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It started with a woman giving birth on the side of a dirt road. She was lying in front of a dilapidated health clinic, ruined during the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. A young medical student, Edmond Baganizi, from the National University of Rwanda, happened to be near the clinic and witnessed this happen. A few months later he heard about a brand new organization called GlobeMed from a fellow Rwandan medical student who heard their founder, Victor Roy, speak on a panel at the Global Health Council in Washington, DC. Nearly four months after the Global Health Council conference, Victor received an email from the medical student who heard him in DC. The med student asked if an organization that he was a part of, Rwanda Village Concept Project, could partner with a GlobeMed chapter. Given that there was little structure in GlobeMed at the time, Victor said he would think about it, and visit them with Peter Luckow in December. December 2007 arrives. Victor and Peter go to Rwanda. Specifically, they go to what was once (and is again) the Huye Health Clinic, in Rukira Village, Rwanda. After a week of building friendships and discussing the importance of youth in the future of global health, a partnership was formed. Upon arrival to the U.S., Victor and Peter partnered RVCP with the new GlobeMed at GWU chapter to rebuild the Huye Health Clinic. In addition to our Maternal Health Education Program, which is an annual education program for the most impoverished Huye women, we are currently working to improve the maternal health care capacities of the Huye Health Clinic. To date, we have raised over $25,000 to complete installation of running water and electricity in the Huye Health Clinic (HHC). Our goal is to raise enough money to build a delivery room for the clinic. This past summer, GlobeMed members talked to nurses at the clinic, and its estimated that 50 women give birth each month. There are only 3 beds in the maternity ward and one delivery bed. With construction of an functioning delivery room there will be enough space for delivering mothers to give birth in a clean and healthy environment.




