This IPE program aims to incorporate the four components necessary in providing excellent patient care: exposure, immersion, experience, and competence. GROUND Asia exposes health care students to healthcare in a communal setting by working with a local community health care center.
Across the world many of our school and university partners have been impacted by the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus.For groups who are traveling with us over the coming months, we have implemented the following measures across all of our programs to reduce the risk where possible
Healthcare in Indonesia can be summed up in two words: organized disarray. It remains a decentralized system due to the difficulty of the country’s logistics. At GROUND Asia, we perform health check-ups with our healthcare groups at posyandus and puskesmas. Our groups observe, diagnose, and treat patients in distressed communities.
As we develop our students into independent thinkers with a drive to blaze their own paths and answer their own questions, we must provide them with the excellent source material. Our educational travel programs do just that while working with rural communities. Together, all parties involved will actively create measurable change with limited time and resources.
We work closely with educators and students to help build meaningful customized community service projects. We understand that sometimes fundraising is a big step towards making trips a reality. Setting big fundraising numbers seems quite daunting, but the challenge can also motivate students to dig deep and meet their goals.
Since most groups traveling with GROUND Asia already plan to volunteer a good portion of their trip at one of our many local community development projects, we would like to give our travelers some food for thought before going overseas. When visiting countries that we are unfamiliar with, the idea of responsible traveling is a common courtesy that is often forgotten when people go on vacation.
Kampong Kleang is located approximately 50 kilometers south of Siem Reap. The community is made of ten floating villages built on stilts. These floating houses are on the Tonle Sap lake, which floods annually: the lake overflows during the monsoon season and drains back into the Mekong River for the rest of the year.
One of our ongoing community service learning projects focuses on Baan Boon Na in northern Thailand.
Experiential learning provides students with real experiences outside the classroom from which they can develop lifelong practical skills and adapt quickly and pragmatically in problematic or unfamiliar situations.
At GROUND Asia, we work closely with educators and students to customise meaningful community service projects. We believe keeping a journal while studying abroad benefits students.
