Blog/Newsletter
March 12, 2020
Back from Ullo: Reed Duncan
Reed is a sophomore majoring in business management, global marketing, and international business, and he is our club’s recruitment chairman, as well as our shea project lead. While he was in Ullo this summer, he was in charge of the shea nut project, as well as taking photos on the trip and contributing to the clinic project. His favorite parts of Ullo were the food, the culture, and the people. Everybody there was
March 5, 2020
Back From Ullo: Paige Jewell
Paige Jewell is a senior majoring in civil engineering. While in Ullo, her job was to do assessments for our clinic project. She would survey potential locations to build the clinic, gather opinions of how the clinic should be built, find what support our project would receive, and visiting current health facilities. She would also help others when tasks came up, but her main focus was on the clinic. Her favorite experience in
February 27, 2020
Back From Ullo: Hannah Schaffer
Hannah Schaffer is a junior majoring in civil engineering, and she is both a member of the Agriculture/Irrigation group and our clubs’ treasurer. When she was in Ullo, she was the treasurer, and she was gathering information for the agriculture/irrigation project. She didn’t have any 1 standout moment that was the absolute best, but she said her favorite times in Ullo were the times spent with the people of Ullo. One time, for
February 18, 2020
Back From Ullo: Sarah Fangrow
Sarah Fangrow in Ullo Sarah is a junior at Iowa State, who is majoring in Chemical Engineering, and was a member of the kitchen stoves group. Her job in Ullo was to implement 10 household stoves and 2 kitchen stoves in during her time in Ullo. She loved meeting everybody in Ullo and forming friendships with the members of the community. Leaving all those new friends was really difficult, and she still thinks
February 13, 2020
Back From Ullo: Jack Hanley
Our travel team returned from Ullo in early January after a successful trip! After this experience, we asked the travel team members to tell us about their time in Ullo.We will be starting off with Jack Hanley, a senior majoring in civil engineering and minoring in Spanish and economics, and our Vice President of engineering. When he was in Ullo, he was the project leader, meaning he managed the work done, kept track
December 11, 2019
Meet Lauren and Reed!
December 5, 2019
Fall 2019 Newsletter
December 5, 2019
Meet John!
November 13, 2019
Meet Joe!
Joe Kim is a sophomore in Industrial Engineering, an engineering group lead, and is on the travel team! Joe’s group, Design of Clinic Targeting Ergonomic Results (DoCTER), works to plan out the potential layout of the clinic. This involves many parts that will all work together to plan out the stages of building the clinic in Ullo. Joe hopes to use his engineering group lead position to bring his skills in Industrial Engineering and
November 5, 2019
Meet Paige!
Paige Jewell is a senior majoring in civil engineering, and she is both a member of the travel team that is going to Ullo, Ghana, and the vice president of the structures/site plan group. Her group is looking into methods used for building construction, which may come in handy with some future possible projects. She decided to become a group lead after her initial trip to Ghana, because she wanted to become a