From Fall to Spring: GlobeMed at the University of Texas at Austin

This past semester, GlobeMed at The University of Texas at Austin raised over $10,000 from donors, personal network campaigns, and many other on-campus fundraising events. Due to the enormous success GlobeMed at The University of Texas at Austin has had, our chapter has taken on another project, and already completed it! The second project deals with the health of both the people of Guarjila and their environment by installing trash receptacles around the village that will be used to store trash until it is picked up. Now that our chapter has completed a second project GlobeMed at The University of Texas at Austin will be taking on a third project this spring, an impressive feat considering it is only our third semester of existence on campus, although, we cannot take all the credit for what has been done.
At the beginning of the fall semester the UT chapter of Alpha Phi Omega presented GlobeMed at The University of Texas at Austin with a huge $3000 donation which helped to jumpstart the first project, the new food co-operative, to completion.  Another factor that aided in the completion of our first project was the ever-popular Global Dance lessons campaign. Global Dance lessons was a three night event teaching participants how to zumba, salsa, and hip-hop for a good cause. Later in the semester our chapter came together to bake cake balls and fashion bracelets from leather and string in order to sell. Not only did we earn enough to finish our first project, but the many awareness activities, such as the bulletin board of social injustice, also informed the UT campus on why we are raising money and what our chapter passionately combats every day, global health inequities. The last event of the fall semester was one of a more personal nature, the personal network campaign, or PNC. 
This year every member of GlobeMed at the University of Texas at Austin went home to ask those they loved, knew, and didn’t know to help our chapter raise money for Guarjila. This campaign turned out to be an enormous success with over $2000 of donation money, but more importantly it reflects both our passion and the community’s passion for aiding a community in need and supporting the global health movement. The spring semester is going to be another great adventure with World Day of Social Justice, GlobeMed’s National Summit, and many more chapter socials and fundraisers coming up. With such a great first semester of the 2011-2012 year, who knows what GlobeMed at the University of Texas at Austin can come accomplish this semester?