{"id":66995,"date":"2006-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-brings-adopt-a-doctor-program-to-hopkins-hall\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-brings-adopt-a-doctor-program-to-hopkins-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/uri-student-brings-adopt-a-doctor-program-to-hopkins-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student brings Adopt A Doctor program to Hopkins Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I — May 2, 2006 — A little money goes a long way, especially for people of Malawi, Africa. In this case, a little money is $100 each month, which pays the stipend of Dr. Carlos Varela, a medical doctor, to treat Malawians. By contributing their dimes, quarters and dollars each month, 溏心vlog免费B站 students have \u201cadopted\u201d Varela.<\/p>\n


\nThe Adopt A Doctor program seeks to reverse the brain drain experienced by physicians working in impoverished countries. The organization provides financial incentives for physicians to stay in their countries and continue to practice medicine. <\/p>\n


\nGrier Stanley, resident assistant for Hopkins Hall, learned about the program when she attended World AIDS Day at 溏心vlog免费B站 last semester. Inspired by a presentation given by Ray Rickman, co-founder of Adopt a Doctor and former Rhode Island state representative, Stanley brought the idea back to Hopkins residents, who agreed to sponsor a doctor. <\/p>\n


\nEach month Stanley counts the donations, making sure they equal $100, fills out a money order and sends it to the Adopt A Doctor headquarters in Providence, which sends it onto Varela. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019m hoping to continue the monthly donation each semester,\u201d says Grier who is finishing her junior year. After graduation, she plans to continue the program through an organization or educational setting. <\/p>\n


\nThe Adopt-A-Doctor program currently sponsors doctors in four countries: Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone. Each month, the sponsored doctors are given a $100 stipend. In exchange, each doctor signs a contract agreeing to remain in his or her chosen country for seven consecutive years. <\/p>\n


\nStanley, a Manchester, Conn. native, majors in human development and family studies and minors in psychology. She plans to become a social worker in an inner-city high school after completing graduate studies. <\/p>\n


\nStanley is involved in other community service activities. She is a volunteer driver for Rhody Rides, a designated driver program that provides free rides home. She has been a youth basketball coach every summer for five years in her hometown and during the past six Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, she and her father have delivered food baskets to families in need in their community through their church.<\/p>\n


\nAt some point, Stanley would like to go to Africa. \u201c If I went there I would want to help motivate the children and help show them their possibilities and opportunities in life,\u201d she said. While there, she would try to contact Dr. Varela.<\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cI would strongly encourage the 溏心vlog免费B站 community to contribute any type of donation to this organization,\u201d said Stanley. \u201cWhether they add monthly donations to an existing adopted doctor or sponsor their own doctor.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nFor more information on the Adopt A Doctor program, and how to make a contribution, visit the organization\u2019s website at www.adoptadoctor.org or e-mail Grier Stanley at gstanley@mail.uri.edu. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I — May 2, 2006 — A little money goes a long way, especially for people of Malawi, Africa. In this case, a little money is $100 each month, which pays the stipend of Dr. Carlos Varela, a medical doctor, to treat Malawians. By contributing their dimes, quarters and dollars each month, 溏心vlog免费B站 students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}