Mission
GlobeMed aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to work together to improve the health of the impoverished around the world.
Description
GlobeMed is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners university students with grassroots health organizations around the world to improve the lives of people living in poverty. GlobeMed seeks to address the lack of capacity-building support for community-based organizations working on the front-lines of global health. By engaging undergraduate students in a meaningful and responsible manner to build this capacity, GlobeMed is preparing a new generation of leaders committed to social justice and global health.
GlobeMed at the University of Virginia is partnered with Build Your Future today outside of Siem Reap, Cambodia. BFT is committed to helping people, especially children, overcome situations of trememdous hardship and poverty. BFT is committed through an orphanage center and various community building projects. Stay tuned to learn about UVA’s 2011-2012 project with BFT and how you can help!
General Information
Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.
