NineteenDegrees

Thank you JCU: College of Healthcare Sciences for supporting the project in Cambodia!

A big thank you to all students from ECU Vietnam 2023 Griffith & UniSQ Vietnam 2023 - Group A Griffith & CDU Vietnam 2023 - Group B Griffith Vietnam 2023 - Group C Griffith & CDU Vietnam 2024 - Group D Griffith Vietnam 2024 - Group E for your amazing fundraising and donation for Mai Chau District Hospital to purchase a brand new refractor! They are super happy and grateful!!! You guys rock!!

What an amazing team of JCU: College of Healthcare Sciences Physio students we have on the ground in Cambodia at the moment with our incredible in country host Vichhay and the team at Grace House and thanks to funding from New Colombo Plan

The staff are amazed at the impact the groups therapy and exercises are having on the kids with heightened interest levels and positive behavioral changes.

Incredible job JCU!! 🙌🙌

Starbucks Foundation Funding Facilitates Lasting MH Impact - Days for Girls International In Mt. Elgon, three-quarters of the women in the enterprises are widows as a result of regional conflict, but now they are regaining stability and independence through their MH work. These enterprises are not only changing local perceptions around menstruation, but they are founding societal and eco...

And the first group (post pandemic) departs tonight!!
Best of luck and have an incredible time University of Wollongong Nursing on your clinical placement in the wonderful Cambodia 🙌🙌🙌

As we wake up from the news it could be at least another year until our borders are open we would like to share updates from the clinics in Mai Chau and the impact your donations keep on having with newly purchased equipment for Bao La, Cun Pheo, Mai Hich, and Pu Bin. Thank you to all our participants in 2019 and 2020, we hope these pics make you smile 🙏👊👏

Looking forward to the future…we know it may be a while before international travel resumes at a rate to enable University student groups to go on placement. But that has not stopped us helping University partners with their 2021/22 New Colombo Plan applications, researching and submitting programs for a new destination (Think Pacific Islands – hint hint!), keeping in touch with our in-country partners and we are remaining positive and making progress on our social enterprise each and every day. The future looks bright! 🌍 ☀️ 🌎

The best is yet to come! Our new website is coming soon, over the past few months we have been developing a new website to showcase our clinical health programs, community internships and destinations. It has been so fun drafting content, selecting images students took themselves, reminiscing about experiences and seeing all the community projects that were undertaken thanks to fundraising efforts. So stay tuned as you’ll be the first to see it!

Last week, the world celebrated and the annual lecture ‘Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A New Social Contract for a New Era’ delivered by Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General highlighted how COVID-19 has demonstrated the fragility of our world. It has laid bare risks we have ignored for decades: inadequate health systems; gaps in social protection; structural inequalities; environmental degradation; the climate crisis. These are the exact reasons why Nineteen Degrees was established as a social enterprise and why our programs focus so strongly on following the UN . As much as the facts are hard to hear we hope this speech inspires you to keep motivated and extend yourselves in your studies/careers and personal lives to help create positive change! 👊

A New Social Contract for a New Era “The response to the pandemic, and to the widespread discontent that preceded it, must be based on a New Social Contract and a New Global Deal that create equal opportunities for all and respect the rights and freedoms of all.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres The pandemic has demonstr...

A big congratulations is in order as the Shanghai Ranking declares Griffith University Nursing and Midwifery AUSTRALIA’S BEST and number 2 GLOBALLY! Griffith President and Vice Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans highlighted how “It gives me great pleasure to be able to say we are truly the best Australian university in these disciplines and that the nurses and midwives we produce are some of best in the world…Nurses have never been more at the forefront of our global communities, as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is felt around the world and especially as the WHO has declared 2020 to be the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife…There will always be demand for nurses and midwives and Griffith is producing the very best of them.” Students love the program too, Renee Flynn who completed our placement in Vietnam views Griffith as a career focussed University course “It is comforting knowing I have had some of the best training and that I am well prepared to enter the workforce.” We are proud to be the major third-party provider for Griffith Nursing international clinical placement programs and look forward to working with Griffith academics and student groups when international placements re-commence! Check out the full article here https://news.griffith.edu.au/2020/06/29/shanghai-ranking-declares-griffith-nursing-and-midwifery-australias-best-and-number-2-globally/

Health Education: All of our programs involve students preparing and delivering health education programs to local school and community groups. Topics range from oral hygiene, prenatal, hand hygiene to Days for Girls and Days for Boys sessions that always result in some giggles of embarrassment amongst school children who are learning about their bodies! What was your favourite memory from running health education sessions?
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