The Global Health Initiative (GHI) team will be visiting Njala University in Sierra Leone at the beginning of February to explore the possibility of a Global Health partnership. The team consists of 3 College of Medicine students, 1 representative of the YMCA and 2 faculty from the university.
The University YMCA's Global Health Initiative (GHI) started this fall semester with the purpose to launch a community-based international partnership in global health, which will become a long-term focal point for global engagement involving the broader University of Illinois campus community. The project made a call for partnerships in the summer.
We received 6 partnership proposals from current existing partnerships from different campus departments and/or individuals. The six proposals we received consisted of four partnerships from Africa; Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Uganda and two from Latin America; Guatemala and Panama.
The University YMCA is currently in the process of visiting the 3 sites this spring semester to meet with different constituents and determine which site to partner with. On February, a delegation will travel to Sierra Leone. Future trips to Uganda and/or Guatemala will be done in late May/early June if necessary.
After visiting the sites, a decision will be made in the summer to select a Global Health partnership. Once the partnership is selected, we hope to begin working on service learning trips for the fall 2014 semester.
Learn more at universityymca.org/international/partnerships
Learn more at universityymca.org/international/partnerships
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