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Public Health
- Assisting in a general hospital located in the rainforest in Ecuador that serves the indigenous people of the area.
- Providing support to faculty in a pediatrics department of a hospital that works with children who suffer from malnutrition.
- Working with technology development in a genetics lab at a university in Quito.
- Doing rounds with doctors, dressing wounds and noting patient progress at a hospital in "el oriente", a high poverty area.
- Working in a hospital that focuses on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation for people of all socio-economic backgrounds.
- Working in a non-profit hospital that provides culturally sensitive medicine to the people most in need of treatment.
- Assissting in house with residents living with HIV.
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Collected information regarding medical plant remedies which were compiled into a book used for training midwives.
Women's Issues
- Working in a hospital, dedicated to adolescent mothers, with a social worker to help the girls learn life skills.
- Helping a small public hospital in Quito to develop ways to improve services to women.
- Working with girls that work the streets or accompany their parents to work to teach them life skills.
Environmental Protection
- Being involved in an environmental conservation project in the Amazon region.
- Working in a wildlife preserve and park on environmental protection within the city.
Education
- Working with the English program at a night school for working students.
- Working with children at a school in a high poverty area.
- Teaching English to northern afro-Ecuadorian high school students, where community politics influence education.
- Teaching English at small school in a rural indigenous area of Ecuador, where the students have had little exposure to English.
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Studying theories behind holistic education and how these practices can be incorporate it into a classroom setting.
Agriculture
- Working on projects that emphasize the importance of diverse gardens within a community.
- Working with indigenous traditions to progress towards sustainable development of water supply in a community.
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Working to improve agriculture environment by conducted soil analysis of seventeen farms.
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Working on agro ecological farm performing basic farm operations, selling product at the local market and attending community meetings.
Community Organizing
- Working with an organization that manages community cultural and natural resources.
- Developing basic services such as potable water, electricity and day care centers in the community in an area where gender roles are changing due to migration.
- Working in a boys' shelter with poverty and problems of the Quechua majority.
- Working with communal businesses and cooperatives to institute a development model used in other parts of the world.
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Creating, promoting and sustaining a basketball team by establishing a club, teaching rules, and training regularity.
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