Please read the following information if you are interested in volunteering with us:

FairHavenCommunityHealthCenter, Nurturing Families Network, is recruiting interested volunteers to work as infant and child caregivers.

Volunteers will care for:

Infants and young children (ages Birth to five).  The Nurturing Families Parenting Group Program provides weekly planned activities that teach parenting skills and provide a safe environment for children to socialize and learn at the same time. Volunteers will provide support to the children's group facilitator while role modeling healthy caregiver/child interactions for parents. 

 Elegibility: 

·        Must be 16 years of age or older

*  Must have a love for children*

·        Must not have a criminal record or be a registered sex offender

·        Must pass a health PPD test

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Mission: To start an NGO that will provide AIDS/HIV testing and counseling to rural villagers and direct them to treatment. To pursue an awareness initiative to statistically at-risk populations, specifically rural villagers in developing countries

Who: A volunteer force made up of college students passionate about public health seeking global public health experience

Where: We aim to start in the rural village of Sunam, Punjab, India where field research has already been conducted by Sonia Gupta during the summer of 2008.  We hope to expand this throughout the villages of India and other developing nations.

This NGO is in its initial stages and has been working with students, professors, HIV clinics, and other AIDS/HIV organizations to materialize its unique vision.  If you are interested in becoming a part of this revolutionary effort, especially if you are looking for a leadership role in public health, please contact Sonia Gupta at sonia.gupta@yale.edu

Day 1: Orientation

            A colorful and far from homogeneous group of Yale Alumni, their families and friends as well as current students gathered in Monterrey this week to contribute their time and knowledge to make a change in Monterrey.

            Our beautiful service trip started in a beautiful, one could say isolated, place out of the city of Monterrey. We were fortunate enough to enjoy the natural surroundings and the hospitality of the facilities of the Chipinque National Park, a beautiful mountainous area that overlooks the vast city of Monterrey. On Chipinque, there is a very convenient conference center that served as the setting of the service teams teambuilding. Several speeches were offered to set the setting of the trip mission and the expectations of the participants as well as a round of introductions by the participants that meant to be very insightful of the diversity and the humanitarian motives of the whole group.

The speeches

            AYAs President, Mark Dollhopf, lead the orientation workshop and began by presenting the present of AYA. The Service Trip in 2008 in Dominican Republic being successful, gave rise to a new trip this year in Monterrey and gave more leeway to AYA and to Mark Dollhopf to envisage a new dimension of AYA and an alternative way of connecting alumni through philanthropy. Overall, according to Mr. Dollhopf AYAs new direction will be to connect alumni according their location, their vocation as well as their interests. Mr. Dollhopf made note of plans to connect the alumni of the 300+ Yale undergraduate organizations which have contributed through the years in the activities of the institution. The reason that the Yale Alumni were ...

March 7-15, 2009 

This Service Tour will engage Yale alumni and students--together with local volunteers--providing crucial community development, enrichment programs, and medical care in and around the city of Monterrey.