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WVU Global Public Health Brigades Spring Break Trip 2020

Gain community service hours through a life-changing experience

Message from Allison McCracken, president, Global Brigades, and MPH student: 

Interested in studying abroad while gaining some community service hours and a life changing experience? Join us on a 7-day spring break trip to Panama this 2020 Spring Break! The trip will take place from March 14-20. 

During the Public Health Brigades, volunteers will develop sustainable health solutions and establish a standard of health quality by emphasizing prevention and education. The Public Health Brigades achieves this goal by implementing in-home infrastructure projects, providing health education and engaging community members. Each public health brigade will have an opportunity to work with individual families, local schools, and community leaders with a focus on holistic and preventative health measures on both an individual and community-wide scale. On this trip, you will also accumulate ~100 hours of community service!

An informational meeting will be held on Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. in Health Sciences South Room G252F (directions to this room are listed below). In the meeting, we'll cover the cost of the trip, deadlines, fundraising, and also an agenda for the seven days, as well as what we hope to accomplish this spring break. Last spring, we were able to help multiple families by building a water well that supplied over 30 families. This might not seem like huge difference in the grand scheme of things, but to those families, we were the world. 

If you are interested or have questions, please feel free to email me. 

Hope to see you at our first meeting on October 9th! 

Sincerely, 

Allison McCracken

Email: ammccracken@mix.wvu.edu

DIRECTIONS TO HSS-H G252F:

  • Take elevators to the ground floor in Health Sciences South
  • You will see the market to your left, but instead of heading for the market turn right to continue down the hallway (as if you were heading to Health Sciences north)
  • Once you see the “Fitness Studio” on your left, G252F will be immediatly across on your right