Projects
Guatemala Project (Guatemala)
Project Dates: July 24th to August 11th Projected Cost: $425 excluding airfare For summer 2008, Cornell Health International is running a project that will focus on development issues of modern Mayan communities in Guatemala. Participants will attend a cooperative school nested on the skirts of a dormant volcano and Lake Atitlan, where students will take more »
Project Alajuelita (Costa Rica)
Project Lead: Shoan Yin Cheung CHI sent a small group of students to Costa Rica to volunteer in a clinic outside of San Jose over spring break. Please visit this website for more details on the project: http://www.fimrc.org/alajuelita_info.php
Project Inspire (Nairobi, Kenya)
Project Lead: Hussein Girnary (hhg2) There are 250,000 “street children” in Kenya and 60,000 of these children live in the Nairobi region. Because of the inadequacy of Kenya’s economic and social infrastructure, mass clearing of slum areas that has resulted in thousands of displaced families, and a debilitating HIV pandemic that kills 700 Kenyans per more »
Project Protect (Kolkata, India)
Project Lead: Anushree Ray (ar355) Project Protect is a student-led intervention program to educate young women in rural India about general women’s health, including topics on HIV/AIDS awareness and maintaining good mental health. Eight students from Cornell traveled to India during winter break in 2007 to implement this program at the Institute of Social Work more »