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"This experience has widened our understanding of global issues and will ensure that we approach problems more critically and through an inclusive international lens."
-- Liza and Carolin
OUR MISSION
The University of Virginia's Center for Global Health Equity promotes health in resource-limited settings
by fostering the commitment of students, faculty and partners from many disciplines to support health for all.
We toured a number of coffee farms in Nicaragua as well as the coffee drying and roasting site for a co-operative of families living in the area. In addition to working at the site or being able to sell their farms' coffee beans to the co-operative, members are granted certain social privileges as part of their involvement in exchange for their participation in sustainable practices. Among these benefits is access to screenings and preventive care for cervical cancer and other diseases by medical brigades.
Photo Credit: 2016 CGH Scholar Jessica Amick - Cambodia
Hannah Graham Memorial Award Scholar Sonja Kapadia and CHUK clinician, Dr. Jackson Kwizera Ndekezi
The PureMadi CGH team preparing all of their supplies for the summer at UVA before heading to South Africa.
This was taken in Majosi, a rural town in South Africa. One of our research partners was raised in Majosi, and her family invited us to visit their town one of our last weekends in South Africa. They made us feel incredibly welcome, whether it was trying to speak English with us or offering us the toys they had made by hand or fruits grown in their backyards. It was an incredible experience to meet one of the families of our partners and get to be in a deeper, more intimate setting with her. Seeing her interact with her family and their excitement to meet us was so touching. One photo is of her neighbors, who drive around their donkey cart when they're bored (according to our partner).
Photo Credit: 2015 Boissevain CGH Scholar Anna Eisenstein - Uganda
Photo Credit: CGH Scholar, Melissa Mallory, South Africa