Read the press release about the 2007 recipients.
Mona Dalal
Second-year student, Carver College of Medicine
Love and Mercy Coalition
Tanzania
The limited access to primary health care impacted Mona Dalal when she aided staff at a rural hospital in Itigi, Tanzania. Through the Love and Mercy Coalition, Dalal was able to help care for impoverished children. In Itigi, where she spent the first part of the summer, "most of the patients have never seen a doctor before.” Due to limited clean water, lack of education, and large family sizes, malnutrition and infection are common. Dalal also spent time in the capital, Dar es Salaam, where she shadowed doctors and witnessed life-changing surgeries. “I think that health care is a human right,” she said.
Katie Jo Sloter
Undergraduate, psychology and international studies
George Foundation
India
