Funds for 2015 awards will provide opportunities to young healthcare graduate students. Send tax deductible donations via PayPal or to Caring Friends, Inc, 4024 Lanark Lane, Houston, TX 77025.
In 2013-2014 Caring Friends, Inc. worked with new non profit Houston Global Health Collaborative, granting awards totaling $9000+ to 22 healthcare students in schools of medicine, nursing, public health and pharmacy.
The Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas is home to thousands of healthcare students and professionals who have a strong interest in global health in underserved areas of the world.
Service Grant
$1000 – 2 students at $500 each
Year-long project to serve women refugee population in Houston, TX awarded August 2014.
Travel Grant
$300 – 6 students at $50 each
Nursing group from UST who went on a mission trip in collaboration with Casa Angelina Orphanage to Antigua, Guatemala awarded August 2014.
Essay Contest. Awards varying from $1000 to $500 based on essays connecting the applicants spiritual, philosophical or humanitarian values to their commitment to global health
Eight (8) students , awarded March 2013.
Travel/Service Grant
$3,000 of CF money ($500 of which came from the STS funding) – 6 students at $500 each
Trip to Honduras to serve the local community of San Pedro Sula in a medical brigade and to collect samples for pilot data on neglected tropical diseases, all UTH medical students, awarded March 2013.