Blog #15: Schiller, Torres, Zaugg

Three of our 15 recipients for the spring AllPeopleBeHappy Volunteer Service Award are Chelsea Schiller, Juan Daniel Torres, and Claudia Zaugg. Chelsea Schiller will be interning for 3 months at a health clinic operated by MED25 International in Mbita, Kenya. Chelsea’s role will be to streamline the organization’s communication plan, find potential social enterprises to improve the income of members of the community, and teach basic public health topics in the local schools. Juan Daniel Torres is a member of the Rutgers University GlobeMed team working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The chapter has partnered with Cooperation for Social Services Development for 3 years, an NGO that provides support to marginalized communities. Aside from implementing a Health Education Toolkit, the team will be instructing the staff of CSSD on maintaining their website, providing daily English language instruction to the community health workers, and working on a photography/video project to spread CSSD’s mission. Claudia Zaugg is volunteering in the Manna Project International site in Ecuador. She is devoting her time to counseling older diabetic women, teaching adult cooking and nutrition, exercise classes, and English classes.