GlobeMed QuarterlyEditor:

Nicholas Wang

Sponsored by Northwestern UniversityInternational Program Development and

the Global Health Studies Department

Contributors:Emily BauersfeldKalindi ShahMindy Chua

Sasha JonesJerry LuoKatie Singh

New School Year, New Directions, New Partnership!

In five short years, GlobeMed has rapidly expanded, with chapters spanning from coast to coast and partners extending across the globe. Committed to principles of sustainability and community-based change, GlobeMed emphasizes that each chapter partners with an established NGO. Most GlobeMed chapters have emerged under this sophisticated model, which ensures effective impact through eq-uitable partnership. While GlobeMed at Northwestern has witnessed the development of this approach, the growth of our own partnership has been unique. GlobeMed at Northwestern was a definitive response to the perceived health inequities, social injustices, and service delivery inefficiencies in the Ho catchment area of Ghana. Partnering with a community worker, Joseph Achana, GlobeMed at Northwestern committed itself to providing essential health care and community services. In partnership, the community, Joseph, and GlobeMed at Northwestern came together to build and develop the Health Out-reach and Peer Education (H.O.P.E) Center. Now, this center is the site of a community clinic, administered by Ghana Health Services. Additionally, the Child Nutrition Program and Sexual Health Educa-tion Program developed and implemented by Northwestern students, nurses, and Joseph have been realized through the HOPE Center. Though the Child Nutrition Program no longer runs at full capacity, we are proud to report that Ghana Health Services has replicated our Sexual Health Education Program model and is extending outreach in Ho. We celebrate the success of the HOPE Center in delivering services to members of the Ho catchment as a community clinic. Every year, as the chapter’s understanding of global health and community engagement matures, one question invari-ably emerges: when should partnership end? This question holds particular significance for our chapter, as a result of its unconven-tional founding. We developed our partnership with an individual, who represented a community, to realize a singular goal: providing

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essential health care services to the Ho community. With the transferal of resources and responsibility from GlobeMed at Northwestern to Ghana Health Services, we believe that our chapter has reached the arc of our partnership with the HOPE Center. We would like to com-memorate the success of the HOPE Center to the founders, nurses, and administrators of the HOPE Center as well as to the Ho community. In the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year, we look forward to the exciting new direction of GlobeMed at Northwestern. We are thrilled to announce the Adonai Child Development Center as our new partner. In response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Adonai Center was founded as a safe haven for orphaned children. Since its founding in 2005, the Adonai Center has extended health outreach, developed family economic empowerment programs, developed a primary school, and sponsored orphaned children. As our partnership with the HOPE Center slowly comes to an end, we hope to see your continued support in the coming years as we nurture our partnership with the Adonai Center.

In solidarity, Emily Bauersfeld and Kalindi ShahCo-Presidents of GlobeMed at Northwestern University, 2012-2013

globemed at northwestern is proud to introduce a new partnership with adonai child development center in namugoga, uganda

Presidents:Emily BauersfeldKalindi Shah

Community Building:Parul KathuriaRachel Spann

Finances:Shruti Zaveri

Global Health U:Tade MengeshaKatie Singh

Campaigns:Alex BaumSasha Jones

GROW Trip:Matt Zhou

Communications:Jerry LuoBryana Schoen

Individual Giving:Ragini BhushanTeresa Caya

Newsletter:Nicholas Wang

2012-2013 Exec Board:

Children who live at the Ado-nai Child Devel-opment Center, GlobeMed at Northwestern’s new partner or-ganization, pose and smile

For students, the prospect of Fall is a thrilling one. The opportunity for a fresh start means new goals, different ideas, and a unique approach. This year, GlobeMed at Northwestern has experienced this feeling of excitement more than ever. Along with the enthusiasm of welcoming our passionate new members, we had the special opportunity to welcome our new partner: the Adonai Child Development Center. Toward the end of the twentieth century, Uganda found itself rav-aged by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and ongoing internal conflict. Resulting from this unrest was the emergence of nearly 880,000 orphans in the year 2000, according to the Center for International Research. Against this back-drop, Aloysius Luswata and his wife, Abby, began the Adonai Child Develop-ment Center in Namugoga, Uganda with the vision that every child in Uganda be cared for within the loving arms of a true family. A quiet village of 1000 people in the Wasiko District in Uganda, Namugoga was not immune to the devastation brought on by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. As head of the Namugoga Victors Church, Pastor Luswata and Abby began taking orphaned children into their home in 1997, providing them with a safe, sheltering environment. This makeshift orphanage quickly grew into a school with 30 children. Now, 12 years later, the school has grown to incorporate over 270 students. Out of the Child Development Center grew the Adonai Family Uganda, a center focused on improving the community as a whole. While Adonai Family Uganda might be considered modest by most standards—a small hand pump sources the entire center and there is no reliable access to power—it is rich in its purpose. In addition to providing a home and school-ing, the center also feeds children, provides support to grandparents who house the children, develops economic capacity of subsistence farmers, and invests in small businesses though micro-credit loans. Every child in need who comes under the purview of Adonai immediately receives counseling services from the staff of Adonai and assistance from “grannies” and distant family members. Additionally, the staff of Adonai supports the placement of children into caring families in the village. Because not all children can be placed in a loving household with a mother and a father, Adonai works hard to provide adequate dormitory housing for at-risk children. The children in the dormitories attend either the preschool or the K-7 Primary School. Of the 270 students registered at Adonai Junior Primary, 208 are orphaned, abandoned, or at severe risk of being orphaned or abandoned. As part of the economic capacity building program, the Adonai Center provides subsistence-farming families with pigs to further cultivate their livestock. Each family offered a pig agrees to provide the first-born pig to another needy family. Independent of the projects supported by GlobeMed at Northwest-ern, Adonai hopes to focus some future projects on building a proper boy’s dormitory, a director’s house, a new pre-school building, an infirmary, and

Introducing the Adonai Child Development Center

With the Adonai Child Development Center as our new partnership organization, GlobeMed at Northwestern is so excited to welcome them into the GlobeMed family. The Adonai Center currently works with and receives funding from a variety of non-profit organiza-tions around the world, and each organization contributes to the center in a slightly different way. GlobeMed at Northwestern will be contributing to the Adonai Center in two very important ways. First, we are currently raising mon-ey to support the construction of a new compostable latrine. This latrine will provide the community with a sustainable, reusable water filtration system that hopefully will offer clean and safe drinking water for the members of the community. Additionally, GlobeMed will be launching a public health awareness campaign, providing important educational resources on the importance of clean water to the Namugoga commu-nity. We are very excited to launch these two projects, and we look forward to sending our GROW (Grass-Roots On-site Work) team this summer to continue the progress of these projects. We encourage every-one to follow our blog, Facebook, and Twitter feeds and check back with our new website in the future, as we will continue to provide the latest updates about the development of these new projects with the Adonai Center.

a bright future from humble beginningsBy: Kalindi Shah

our forthcoming projectsBy: Emily Bauersfeld

The location of the Wasiko District in Uganda, and Uganda in the African continenta hostel to allow for continued housing of parentless children through secondary school. The Adonai Center is supported through a United Kingdom branch, which raises awareness and finances, and regularly visits the Center in Uganda. Adonai UK is a registered charity, which consists of a team of five trustees and partnering organizations. Ad-ditionally, Adonai UK hosts public benefits and other campaigns to actively sponsor 69 children at the orphanage who receive healthcare, education, clothing, and proper nutrition. In addition to UK liaisons, the Adonai Center also has a U.S.-based liaison in the form of Bruce Karmazin. Along with to monthly Skype meetings or phone calls with Aloysius, we keep in regular email and phone contact with contact with Mr. Karmazin. With the support of Bruce and the inspiration of Aloysius, we began our partnership with vigor and a clear vision for mutual support and a lasting, effective rela-tionship.

GlobeMed at Northwestern would like to introduce our newest web presence! Last Spring, a few GlobeMed members started working with webthriftstore.com, a company that gives non-profit groups such as ours the opportunity to run their own online thrift stores. This fall, we officially set up our webthriftstore.com account! Our store serves as an online mar-ketplace where items donated to GlobeMed can be sold. Those interested in supporting GlobeMed’s cause can either donate their own items to our online store or purchase available items. All proceeds from the thrift store go towards our new partner, the Adonai Child Development Center in Namugoga, Uganda. Our current store inventory includes collectible books, scarves, and electronics. This holiday season, support GlobeMed’s partnership with the Adonai Center by shopping at our store or donating your gently used items!

new ways to donate, just in time for the holidaysBy: Mindy Chua

the festive new fall campaign for a fantastic new partnershipBy: Sasha Jones The nostalgic smell of pumpkin pie filled the first floor of Tech on the Monday morning before Thanksgiving. Countless miniature pumpkin pies covered three large tables, designed into a gigantic GlobeMed symbol. In between sprinting from one last-minute midterm to another, many busy students stopped by the GlobeMed at Northwestern table in Tech lobby to grab one (or two, or three…) miniature pumpkin pies and a squirt of whipped cream on November 19. This year, GlobeMed at Northwestern was thrilled to try some-thing new for the fall campaign in honor of our exciting, developing part-nership with the Adonai Child Development Center in Namugoga, Uganda. Instead of the Global Marketplace, which has been the staple fall fundraiser for the past two years, the Northwestern Executive Board crafted up the creative idea to bake and sell a classic fall favorite: pumpkin pies! The baked goods were sold for $3 each, with innovative quarter sheets explaining facts about our partner organization in order to spread the word of our progress and plans as an important student organization on campus. Pumpkin Pie for Adonai was headed by Co-Directors of Cam-paigns, Alex Baum and Sasha Jones, and the event was able to raise approxi-

Pumpkin Pie for Adonai

This year at GlobeMed, we are intensely dedicated to increasing our social media and online presence. With the development of the new GlobeMed National Office website and the announcement of our new partner, the Adonai Center in Uganda, we decided that it would be the right time for us to launch a new website as well, giving us a fresh start. With free hosting and domain registration generously provided by the Buffet Center at Northwestern University, we were able to launch the website in December. Historically we have been blogging on our GlobeMed Grapevine blog, but with the new GlobeMedNU.org website, we want to expand our online con-tent with global health articles, chapter member posts, photos and videos, and more. We’re doing all we can to expand our online reach in the hopes of raising more money for the Ado-nai Center and increasing global health awareness on campus and beyond. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and check out our new website for the latest updates!

increased presence online By: Jerry Luo

Quick Hits: Miscellaneous Chapter News

With a new partnership and a new direction for our chapter, my co-director Tade Mengesha and I really wanted to spend this quarter building a strong foundation of global health knowledge that we all can expand upon in upcoming quar-ters. Over the course of the past quarter, we discussed Uganda and its unique set of global health issues—especially issues of water and sanitation, as those areas are the subject of our continually developing partner projects with the Adonai Center. It was also important that we understand the health issues people are facing locally in the greater Chicagoland area. We compared the issues we’re addressing at Adonai to the ones we face in Evanston, hoping to foster a greater sense of understanding of our own community as well as our partner’s. In addition, we really wanted to highlight the accessibility of global health to emphasize that we all can make a dif-ference. GlobeMed was started right here at Northwestern by students just like us. Since its inception, the organization has grown and evolved from a student group that delivered medical supplies abroad to a

national network of college students dedi-cated to building lasting partnerships with communities around the world. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by how fast GlobeMed has grown, so it’s important to remind ourselves that at its core GlobeMed (and global health in general) is all about the personal relation-ships that we create with others. Tade and I worked to emphasize this human aspect so chapter members could make a more personal connection to global health. We hope to continue these themes in the up-coming quarters. We are looking forward to letting members take more control of Global Health U, and leading us to learn as a chapter about our collective interests. We’re also hoping to include more guest speakers, especially Northwestern profes-sors who have so much knowledge about health issues in both Uganda and Chicago. Winter will be an exciting time for GHU, and we can’t wait to see where we’re headed next!

Visit http://globemed.org/approach/learn/globalhealthu/ to learn more about Global Health U.

global health uBy: Katie Singh

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mately $250, which is more than our chapter has ever been able to make from a bake sale alone. Pumpkin Pie for Adonai was successful from a financial perspective, but it was also an amazing community building event that involved our 20+ new members. Several students from the executive board graciously hosted baking parties for new and old members to come together, hang out, and get to know each other—all the while impressively baking over 200 miniature pies from scratch. This year, one of the primary goals of GlobeMed at Northwestern is to wholeheartedly engage its entire chapter in its fundraising efforts, and make our student organization a familiar name on campus. The 2012 fall campaign might have been small-scale (like our pies!), but our fundraising visions for the upcoming year are bigger than ever!

Easy As Pie: Tade Mengesha, Sasha Jones, and Alex Baum help raise money and awareness about the Adonai Center.

Building a generation of global health leadersSince our chapter’s founding, hundreds of students have become members of GlobeMed at Northwestern. These members, along with other students from universities all over the country, have participated in GlobeMed’s high-impact programming. In addition to providing students with the knowledge and skills to address issues of global health, these events have mobi-lized participants to join in the movement for global health equity.

How to donateDonate OnlineVisit our global giving page online to make a donation:http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/increase-public-health-and-sanitation-in-uganda/

Or visit our new Web Thrift Store: http://globemednu.webthriftstore.com

Donate By MailPlease make checks payable to “GlobeMed at Northwestern” and send to:GlobeMed National Office620 Library PlaceEvanston, IL 60208

GlobeMed is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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Former co-president Tiffany Wong walks with children from Ho, Ghana across a soccer field to where future crops of soybeans will grow.

This fall, we were recognized by two Greek organi-zations on campus, Phi Psi and Gamma Phi. Each year, the fraternity and sorority pair puts on an event, “Phall Phest” where Northwestern students gather to drink hot cider, carve (or smash!) pumpkins, and enjoy other fall festivities. Phall Phest usually solely supports Greek Build, an organization that North-western Greek-life sponsors to help build homes for the needy, but this year GlobeMed at Northwestern was fortunate enough to be the co-beneficiary along with Greek Build! We were so honored that Phi Psi and Gamma Phi thought of us for their event, and our members had a blast participating in the “Phall” fun as well! Overall, the two Greek organizations donated a total of $1240 to our partnership with the Adonai Child Development Center, and we could not be more thankful.

phall phest phunBy: Emily Bauersfeld

Nicholas Wang bludgeons an unsuspecting pumpkin during Phall Phest

Rachel Spann confidently bowls during GlobeMed at Northwestern’s

fall retreat

Autumn Activitiescommunity building

bowlingBy: Parul Kathuria

When Rachel and I saw the sign outside that read “Bowling alley upstairs!”, we both looked at each other and wondered what kind of place we had brought the chapter to. As Co-Directors of Community Building, we wanted to make our fall retreat as perfect as possible. Despite our original wariness, however, we were pleasantly surprised after walking into Lincoln Square Lanes and finding a charming, perfectly preserved vintage bowling alley. When I say vintage, I truly mean it: we kept score using pencil and paper, not with any of the fancy technology avail-able in most bowling alleys today. The alley even had an old-fashioned jukebox loaded with current tunes; naturally, the first song we played was Psy’s “Gangnam

Style”. Bowling teams were randomly assigned. Some chapter members were fantastic bowlers, while others (read: me) desperately needed bumpers that the al-ley unfortunately didn’t have. We ended up playing two full games before settling down with pizza and soda to watch the last 10 minutes of the heartbreaking Northwestern-Michigan game on the alley’s singular large-screen television. It sounds like our chapter members had a great deal of fun. New member Michael Rossi, for example, commented that the retreat truly helped him form more meaningful relationships with other members of the Northwestern chapter. Rachel and I had a wonderful time with everybody who came, and we can’t wait to plan another retreat soon!