{"id":797,"date":"2017-03-01T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/health-studies\/?p=797"},"modified":"2017-03-01T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:08:22","slug":"major-organizes-international-volunteer-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2017\/03\/01\/major-organizes-international-volunteer-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Major organizes international volunteer trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portia Eastman, a Health Studies major, coordinated a trip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/Capture-1.png\" rel=\"lightbox[797]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-800 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/Capture-1-300x251.png\" alt=\"Capture\" \/><\/a>with URI the Global Village Program to Retalhuleu, Guatemala this past <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">January as her honors project.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portia wanted to complete an honors project that would encompass her three passions: health, service, and travel. \u00a0As a student, Portia\u00a0explained that she had not participated in a study abroad or faculty lead trip due to costs or the trips did not align with her interest of public health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portia explains that when developing her project &#8220;I made sure make su<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/unnamed-1-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[797]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-798 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/unnamed-1-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" \/><\/a>re my project directly involved the local community, was culturally immersive, physically and mentally challenging, and presented a real-life public health situation. We worked one-on-one with Habitat for Humanity to make sure every\u00a0day included building, working with the community, and a cultural activity. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portia, seven students, and an adult leader helped implement Healthy Home Kits, which allows Habitat for Humanity to build smokeless stoves, latrines, and water filters for communities in need. \u00a0During their time in Gutamela, the URI team help build one house as well as 2 smokeless stoves.<\/p>\n<p>Four Health Studies majors, Francelly Brito, Briana Del Guidice, Sashalee Martinez ,\u00a0amd Gabby Sachs, participated in the trip. Four other URI students,\u00a0Russell Hart, \u00a0Nisa Pennyfeather, and \u00a0Rachel Staffier\u00a0also went. Catlin Fetters from University College at URI was the adult advisor<\/p>\n<p>Portia explained that &#8221; the public health impacts could as soon as we built a new stove that emitted little smoke right next to the old one which produced vast amounts of smoke. Upper respiratory infections and burns are huge issues for children under 5 and women in this region because the time they spend around the stove inhaling the smoke. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portia explained that &#8221; the public health impacts could as soon as we built a new stove that emitted little smoke right next to the old one which produced vast amounts of smoke&#8221;<\/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-797","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\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}