Mon 28th February 2011

GLASGOW STUDENTS RAISE OVER £1,000 FOR MAI!

Medical students from Glasgow University wore medical scrubs for a week to help MAI's Partnership Project in South Sudan.  Led by MAI Supporter, Jennifer Herd, just eleven students raised in excess of £1,000!

Our thanks go to Jennifer and her colleagues: Niain Craw, John Connelly, Charlotte Greenwood, David Gordon, Ross Kane, Julius Jun Kai Kang, Daniel Lynagh, Craig McKenna, Martin Winstanley and E E Zhang.

The scrub wearathon week coincided with a University Ball and this meant that Jen appeared in her scrubs glory while fellow students paraded their glamourous gowns (see picture). 

Jennifer met Bishop Taban on his first visit to the UK.  Hearing about the needs of South Sudan with its appalling infant and maternal mortality, she decided to leave her vetinerary ambitions and aim to become a doctor.  Now at Glasgow University Medical School, Jennifer hopes to make a first visit to Sudan in the summer.

Dr John Gilbert, a GP on the MAI Board and whose own trek in Ethipia recently raised over £2,500 for Sudan, plans to return to Goli Hospital to assess staff training needs and monitor progress in July.

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