WHY EDUCATION
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), many children that finish second grade in rural areas do not know how to read or write, due to:
- Distance to schools: the lack of schools in rural areas often forces children to migrate to schools far away from their homes, enduring long and dangerous walks.
- Number of classroom hours: many teachers teach only Tuesday through Thursday to go home to the city on weekends.
- Single teachers: a single teacher is one who has students in different grades in a single classroom and who must implement an educative process for all of them at the same time.
Poor infrastructure in communities often means that school rooms are small or non-existent, lack resources for teachers, and are not properly built to shelter children from the elements.
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
Our Mobile Clinics provide health education in the form of educational videos, brochures, and presentations by medical professionals and health promoters. We provide information on diseases such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiac disease among others to help our patients understand how to prevent and treat such conditions. Our workshops focus on teaching patients about how to live healthier lives, demonstrating important screening tests, answering questions, and trying to install a culture of preventative care.
OUR LOCAL WORK
By partnering with Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals (CCMP), the UC Berkeley MEDLIFE chapter aims to tackle the local public health issues in the bay area by creating and implementing education workshops to Oakland residents.
