Marling Garcia
Marling Garcia is a passionate, dedicated, and enthusiastic student from Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, WI. She was born in the community of Las Macias, Teustepe, Boaco, Nicaragua. Since she was a child, she experienced the lack of clean, potable water needed to supply the basic needs in her home. Due to that hardship, she always wanted to […]
Well for Wellbeing
Presently, there is no source of clean water is available within the community of Las Macias, Teustepe, Boaco, Nicaragua. Water from an open well must be carried over a mile to each home, taking time, leaving risk of contamination, and stressing the community and its health and wellness. Marling and her team will create a […]
One Sun Health
One Sun Health was co-founded by three students hailing from different universities and multidisciplinary backgrounds, who met in South Africa while completing research on global health issues in 2011. Their experience and interactions with communities in the region of HaMakuya, Limpopo Province sparked a passion to return the area to work with local stakeholders to […]
Sarah Cox
Originally from San Francisco, Sarah Cox earned her BSBA in 2013 from the University of Miami in Health Sector Management and Policy, minoring in Mathematics and Dance. She studied with the Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS) in 2011, focusing on community perceptions of tuberculosis and infection control in the Khavhambe region, HaMakuya, South Africa. This […]
Katelynd Todd
Katelynd is a first-generation college student from Jacksonville, Florida. She is passionate about prosperity of people and improvement of quality of life for others. She has dedicated much of her time throughout her undergraduate career to community service and campus involvement. She founded a non-profit organization, Gainesville Reads Inc, to help empower literacy in her […]
GROW: Growth and Retention of Wellness
GROW is an agricultural nutrition education program that provides an inner-city neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida the resources to grow their own food to eat, learn from and sell. The food that this community learns to grow, harvest and cook will feed the community of 300 people.
José Martín Solórzano González
José Martín Solórzano González was born and raised in an zoque indigenous town in Chiapas, Mexico. He studied Medicine at Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. He has worked in indigenous communities of Southern Mexico and highly concentrated Hospitals in southern and central Mexico, with the providing first-level health care. In 2013 he was elected by the […]
BuildingHealth
Building Health is a youth organization that works to bring improving to quality of life to people in situation of vulnerability with special emphasis in indigenous comunnities, through programs that acts over health, social development and education. They have developed a program that provides primary healthcare caravans that include free medical service, free medications and […]
Nawaraj Shahi
Nawaraj Shahi, born in a rural village of Nepal and currently pursuing his Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies in Colby-Sawyer College, United States, is an emerging entrepreneur and a compassionate supporter of green issues. Following his passion for green issues, he leads Sustainability Core, an organization that implements environmentally sustainable practices in his school […]
Life Free From Lead
Nawaraj grew up in rural Nepal playing with used batteries like toys. Only after coming to the United States for school did he learn that the high lead count in these batteries, often used in the small solar panels that are a primary source of power in Nepal, would be dangerous for a child. Nawaraj […]
