Inaugural Gillings Student Organization Service Project Awards announced

UNC’s Engineers Without Borders members have worked in Ciudad de Dios, Peru, since 2006.

The awards provide funding support to student organizations at the School for innovative service projects that benefit communities in North Carolina and around the world. Recipients were selected by a committee of peers from the School’s Executive Council of Student Government.

EWB’s project, “Sanitation System in Ciudad de Dios, Peru,” seeks to continue to build capacity in sanitation and water through an ongoing commitment to Ciudad de Dios. EWB members have supported Ciudad de Dios since 2006.

GlobeMed’s Gillings Award will be used to improve communications and data-sharing among counselors in Uganda working with people with HIV/AIDS.

GlobeMed at UNC’s “Health Alert – Uganda Frontline SMS: Medic Implementation” project will strengthen communications and HIV/AIDS data transmission between community volunteer counselors and Health Alert Uganda offices through the use of cell phone short message service (SMS).

Each student organization will receive $2,500.

The Gillings Student Organization Service Project Awards are made possible by a $50 million gift to the School from Dennis and Joan Gillings. The competitively selected awards will be offered each academic year. School-affiliated student service organizations that have formal recognition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are welcome to apply.

For more information about the Gillings Student Organization Service Project Awards, contact the Office of Student Affairs or email accelerate@unc.edu.

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.