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Relieving Pain of Burnt Children in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Creators. Maryam Saudi Arabia. Claudia Bolivia. PROJECT IDEA. Claudia’s experience Poor public health system in Bolivia 20,000 children suffer from severe burns every year (Only in Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
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Creators Maryam Saudi Arabia Claudia Bolivia
PROJECT IDEA • Claudia’s experience • Poor public health system in Bolivia • 20,000 children suffer from severe burns every year (Only in Santa Cruz, Bolivia) • many families live under one U.S. dollar a day
GOAL • to collect money during the Spring Semester of 2012 in order to provide the medicine Human Albumin to eight children suffering of severe burns in the Mario Ortiz children's hospital Santa Cruz, Bolivia. • Amount to be collected: $1000 • Amount of Human Albumen to be purchased: 28 doses
Challenges Successes • Likes in Facebook Page • Wristbands sale • Donations collection • Limited college students disposable income • Community projects saturation in TAMU • I-Week on campus awareness • Enthusiasm of international clubs/organizations • ISA Partnership
What we learned from the project • Importance of: • Communication skills • Effective communication outlets • with college students • Persuasion • Involvement • Contingency plan • Planning in advance • Be ready to fail • Fair delegation of tasks • Diversity