{"id":940,"date":"2011-12-11T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-12-11T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T19:03:23","slug":"940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2011\/12\/940\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Bronson on her upcoming trip to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vassar Haiti Project Medical Initiative member Nicole Bronson writes about her upcoming trip to Rwanda through the organization FACE AIDS.\u00a0 Nicole will be working with HIV\/AIDS patients in rural and urban clinics, hospitals, and orphanages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This Winter Break I will be travelling to Rwanda for two weeks with FACE AIDS.\u00a0 FACE AIDS is an organization that allows students to make a difference in fighting HIV\/AIDS while also promoting global health equity and social justice.\u00a0 The campaign FACE AIDS has going on now is the Adopt A Health Center Campaign.\u00a0 This campaign raises money to help Partners In Health renovate the Nyamirama Health Center in Rwanda.\u00a0 Not only will this health center contribute to better healthcare in the area, but it will also contribute to a sense of community and hope.\u00a0 As part of my trip to Rwanda, I will be visiting this health center, meeting community members and experiencing how FACE AIDS and Partners In Health make a difference.\u00a0 I will learn about what makes a good health center, how it is run and what is needed.\u00a0 I will apply the knowledge I gain from visiting the Nyamirama Health Center to help in the building of VHP\u2019s new clinic in Fierville.\u00a0 Sharing my experience visiting different clinics and hospitals in Rwanda with the medical initiative of the Vassar Haiti Project will hopefully lead to the success of the new clinic in Haiti.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to know that Partners In Health work in Rwanda will serve as a helping model for our clinic in Haiti, another area Partners In Health is heavily invested in helping.\u00a0 And if anyone wants to get involved with FACE AIDS at Vassar come to a ProHealth meeting or stop by when ProHealth tables in the college center!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vassar Haiti Project Medical Initiative member Nicole Bronson writes about her upcoming trip to Rwanda through the organization FACE AIDS.\u00a0 Nicole will be working with HIV\/AIDS patients in rural and urban clinics, hospitals, and orphanages. This Winter Break I will be travelling to Rwanda for two weeks with FACE AIDS.\u00a0 FACE AIDS is an organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}