helpmeets bolivia
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Helpmeets Bolivia. Hilary Albrecht & James Sawyer. Our Original Project. Transfer of traditions from College Station campus to Qatar campus: Aimed at uniting the two campuses Increasing awareness of traditions G etting international students and students on campus involved in the project. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
Front Back
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
Worldfest