Jefferson Public Citizens, University of Virginia

Project Assessing 'Grand-Aides' Health Care Initiative in Inner Mongolia Wins Top JPC Prize

The prize for the best Jefferson Public Citizen presentation has gone to a group of UVa students whose project focused on improving health care in Inner Mongolia with the help of grand-aides, senior community members who receive medical training. Read more.

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Student Helps Build Computer Lab for Honduran Schoolchildren

August 05, 2009 | The Hour Online

On July 4, Robert Wyllie was in Honduras with a group of Latin American children celebrating the fact that the first computer some of them had ever seen was up and running.
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