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Timmy Foundation prepares for service trip in Ecuador
By: Lauren Clark
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: News
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Twenty to thirty DePauw students will travel with the Timmy Foundation to Quito, Ecuador over fall break.
The Timmy Foundation is a community service group that meets once a month to discuss and plan events on how to improve health care for children. The group makes the service trip annually and they deliver various hygienic supplies and over-the-counter medicines to children and their families who otherwise would not have these important items.
"It's a highly impoverished country," said Timmy Foundation president Alicia Keck, a senior. "There's one physician to every 740 people, opposed to one physician to every 380 people like in the U.S. and the percentage of residents in Quito with running water, sewage and electricity is less than 50 percent. We visit them with professional doctors and pharmacists and we really make a huge difference in these people's lives."
Though the foundation makes the trip annually, for some students this will be a very new and different opportunity.
"I've actually never been before, but I'm going this year," said senior Taron Davis, public relations chair. "I'm very excited and thoroughly looking forward to helping out. I'm certain that I will come back with a different outlook on the world."
Though the group is currently focused on their trip to Ecuador, they hope to help children and their families locally as well over the next few weeks.
"We do all kinds of fundraising," Keck said. "Our most unique fundraiser is 'Trick or Treat for Timmy' where we go trick or treating, literally, for medical supplies."
Members of The Timmy Foundation has also volunteered at the Easter Seals Crossroads Center in Indianapolis and will be making trips to the center again this year on Oct. 12, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14.
"Basically, we went there and assisted families with disabled children by playing with them and letting them know they have our support because raising kids in any condition is difficult," Keck said. "It was fun and I felt really good afterwards."
Keck said the group welcomes all students.
"Some people think it's only a group for pre-med students, but that's not true at all," Keck said. "All types of students are welcome and we enjoy the diversity."
Several students attend the meetings, which are usually held the first Wednesday of every month, in Julian Science and Mathematics Center. Everyone contributes to event planning and offers their input on what needs to be done to improve health care.
"It's a very interesting group to be affiliated with," said freshman Katlyn Martin. "I love what they're all about as far as helping kids because I love kids and I hope to get more involved with them in the future."
The Timmy Foundation is a community service group that meets once a month to discuss and plan events on how to improve health care for children. The group makes the service trip annually and they deliver various hygienic supplies and over-the-counter medicines to children and their families who otherwise would not have these important items.
"It's a highly impoverished country," said Timmy Foundation president Alicia Keck, a senior. "There's one physician to every 740 people, opposed to one physician to every 380 people like in the U.S. and the percentage of residents in Quito with running water, sewage and electricity is less than 50 percent. We visit them with professional doctors and pharmacists and we really make a huge difference in these people's lives."
Though the foundation makes the trip annually, for some students this will be a very new and different opportunity.
"I've actually never been before, but I'm going this year," said senior Taron Davis, public relations chair. "I'm very excited and thoroughly looking forward to helping out. I'm certain that I will come back with a different outlook on the world."
Though the group is currently focused on their trip to Ecuador, they hope to help children and their families locally as well over the next few weeks.
"We do all kinds of fundraising," Keck said. "Our most unique fundraiser is 'Trick or Treat for Timmy' where we go trick or treating, literally, for medical supplies."
Members of The Timmy Foundation has also volunteered at the Easter Seals Crossroads Center in Indianapolis and will be making trips to the center again this year on Oct. 12, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14.
"Basically, we went there and assisted families with disabled children by playing with them and letting them know they have our support because raising kids in any condition is difficult," Keck said. "It was fun and I felt really good afterwards."
Keck said the group welcomes all students.
"Some people think it's only a group for pre-med students, but that's not true at all," Keck said. "All types of students are welcome and we enjoy the diversity."
Several students attend the meetings, which are usually held the first Wednesday of every month, in Julian Science and Mathematics Center. Everyone contributes to event planning and offers their input on what needs to be done to improve health care.
"It's a very interesting group to be affiliated with," said freshman Katlyn Martin. "I love what they're all about as far as helping kids because I love kids and I hope to get more involved with them in the future."
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