Blog #14: Pratt, Randolph, Sathananthan

Three of our 15 recipients for the spring AllPeopleBeHappy Volunteer Service Award are Allison Pratt, Brittny Randolf, and Vidiya Sathananthan. Allison Pratt is part of the Spelman College’s GlobeMed team that will be traveling to Kumasi, Ghana this summer to work with a local NGO, Light for Children. They will present workshops on sexual assault prevention, sexual health, sexual abuse, and the resources available to children as they mature into adulthood. Brittny Randolph will be taking a gap year between obtaining her Master’s degree in Medical Science and going to medical school to volunteer with Manna Project International as its 2014-2015 Nicaragua Program Director. She will be replacing Elizabeth Nicole Teal, 2013 Volunteer Service Award recipient, and continuing the health initiative began by Nicole to build a primary care health clinic in Cedro Galan. Vidiya Sathananthan will be spending the next year in rural Liberia working for Last Mile Health. The highest priority of the organization is to find a solution to the problem of high maternal mortality during childbirth. Vidiya has volunteered with Last Mile Health for the past 2 years in its Boston office, and they offered her a position after her recent graduation from college.