GROW TRIP 2011!!!!

Hello to you all.

The purpose of this blog is for our friends and family back home to track the progress of UMKC GlobeMed's 2011 G.R.O.W. trip to Uganda.

GlobeMed is a student-led, student-run organization that aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to work together and improve the health of the impoverished around the world.

Toward this end, each year we select a small group of students to represent the University of Missouri-Kansas City chapter of GlobeMed on a trip to our partner clinic, the Kabwohe Clinical Research Center, in southwestern Uganda. The chapter and partner work closely year-round executing fundraising campaigns and planning this trip, during which the team will help institute a health-related initiative in the communities surrounding KCRC. We call this trip G.R.O.W.- "Grass Roots On-site Work".

This year, the G.R.O.W. team is:

Logan Terry.

Mike Ivers.

They'll be arriving in Uganda's capital, Kampala on Monday May 23rd at 1:00 p.m. and working with the partner clinic and community volunteers over the next two weeks until the afternoon of June 3, finally arriving back to Kansas City at 9pm on Saturday the 4th.

As you browse this site's entries from last year's G.R.O.W. team, you'll see a glimpse of how their experience changed them. Logan and Mike are tremendously excited to represent our chapter in Uganda and they will use this site to keep all of you posted on what UMKC GlobeMed and KCRC are doing this year.

We hope that over the next two weeks, you will keep an eye on our blog as Logan and Mike update as often as possible their experiences, humorous events, and reflections.