Robert McDermit

Canada

Passionate About:

Community knows no borders, love needs no translation.

Here and at home, coming together for the health of our community is so vital. We all can have a role; sometimes it takes making space, usually it takes practice, and always it takes learning. We have as much to learn from and with our communities & neighbours in Canada, and I hope we can learn with them how to show up grounded in community, commit ourselves in partnership, collaborate in a participatory process, ask how we can help, listen and reflect intentionally, and walk forward together.

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Website: university-of-victoria-medical-brigades-chapter

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Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

University of Victoria is a chapter of Global Dental Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to dental & medical care and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical & Dental Programs, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.