helpmeets bolivia

HILARY ALBRECHT &

JAMES SAWYER

Helpmeets Bolivia

Our Original Project

Transfer of traditions from College Station campus to Qatar campus: Aimed at uniting the two campuses Increasing awareness of traditions Getting international students and students on

campus involved in the project

Our Plan

Our planning and work was done primarily through email correspondence We had contacts in the Qatar support office, in Class

Councils, Traditions Council and Student Government. Gerald Harris- Class Councils Nancy Allaham, Rachel Levins- Qatar Support Office Julie Chase, and Rachel White- Qatar Campus Jayati Desai- TAMU-Q Traditions Council

Traditions

We planned to adapt Elephant Walk, Aggie Ring Dance, The Big Event, Maroon Out, Fish Fest, and Pull-Out Day by breaking up student teams to work on the events individually

The Flop

Communication issues Delayed emails

Budget issues with the offices we were working with

Cultural differences Caravan Walk Event Feasibility (Big Event) Ring Dance Maroon Out

Didn’t have a chance to visit site

Lessons Learned

Needs to be more direct Visits Video conferencing

Cultural differences

Our Rebound

El Hospital del Niño in La Paz, Bolivia

El Hospital Del Niño

160-bed, government-owned, underfinanced pediatric center with an annual budget of around $500,000.

The hospital has a desperate need of medical supplies, which leads to tragic outcomes for many of the patients.

Even basic medical supplies are scarce, so even small donations would make a huge difference.

Bolivia

Since 1950 the Bolivian population has more than doubled. As of 1995, the population of Bolivia totaled 7.4 million and has grown at a rate of 2.4 percent annually since 1991. The current population of the country is 8,043,499, with roughly 62.5% located in urban zones and 37.5% in rural areas.

Almost 30% of the population lives in La PazDespite the importance of its tin, silver, and other

mines and its large reserves of natural gas and crude oil, Bolivia is one of the poorest nations in Latin America and still lives by a subsistence economy

Purpose

We are creating a student organization to raise money and awareness for the hospital.

Have set up an account as well as a website to handle donations through PayPal

https://sites.google.com/site/helpmeetsbolivia/

Implementation

Raising money T-shirts (shown on next slide)

Sold through pre-orders https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc

?hl=en&key=tmr981djDIBST0fWyMJXQ0w#gid=0 Made a facebook event Speaking with many of the Latin American student

associations in order to sell the shirts Personal contact and friends

Online donations through the website Events with Latin American organizations

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Measure of Success

By being able to help the hospital provide better care for all their patients

We have set our donation goal at $1000 by the end of the semester in order to send a check with Belen Berdegue who is going there this summer Blog Twitter Photos for the website

Organization Setup

Fundraising event tentative for April 30th in coordination with Colombian students association

By the fall hope to be a recognized student association Fundraisers in the fall

T-shirt sales Events

If not we will be able to work with the Latin American associations on campus to continue sending donations through the account

Continuation

Organization to continue through the summer and into the fall once the paperwork goes through

Donations on the websiteHope that the project will be continued by

AFIL students. One prospective student (Belen Berdegue) is particularly interested

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