{"id":738,"date":"2016-12-07T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/health-studies\/?p=738"},"modified":"2019-01-15T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:41:42","slug":"honors-project-coordinating-uri-volunteer-effort-in-my-honors-project-is-a-trip-with-the-global-village-program-to-retalhuleu-guatemala-this-january-9-19th-2017-i-am-bringing-7-passionate-uri-stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2016\/12\/07\/honors-project-coordinating-uri-volunteer-effort-in-my-honors-project-is-a-trip-with-the-global-village-program-to-retalhuleu-guatemala-this-january-9-19th-2017-i-am-bringing-7-passionate-uri-stu\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Project: Coordinating URI volunteer efforts in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portia Eastman, a Health Studies major, is coordinating a trip with with the Global Village Program to Retalhuleu, Guatemala this coming\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">January as her honors project. <\/span><\/span>Portia \u00a0has identified 7 other URI students passionate about health and a \u00a0team leader from University College to participate in implementing and distributing <em>Healthy Home Kits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Healthy Home Kits \u00a0<\/em>include tools to help bring basic necessities to people living in\u00a0\u00a0undeveloped areas. \u00a0Each kit includes a Bio-sand filter, Eco Stove, Dry compost latrine, and a solar light kit.\u00a0 Each kit cost (US) $1000, and our church body donated over 200 kits!<\/p>\n<p>The URI will install smokeless stoves to improve their health status while reducing fuel spending. \u00a0The team also \u00a0will work to provide families with water filters, \u00a0build latrines, and provide educational trainings to families with the goal of improving water quality, sanitation, and hygiene conditions of low-income families Many of these relatively simple and inexpensive housing solutions will have a dramatic impact on the families\u2019 health and well-being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portia Eastman, a Health Studies major, is coordinating a trip with with the Global Village Program to Retalhuleu, Guatemala this coming\u00a0January as her honors project. Portia \u00a0has identified 7 other URI students passionate about health and a \u00a0team leader from University College to participate in implementing and distributing Healthy Home Kits. Healthy Home Kits \u00a0include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}