Our Partners We are proud to partner with the following organizations

Our partners play a vital part in the success of our trips. They negotiate accommodations, provide transportation, provide translators, and support our mission to meet the need of those in their communities.

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Universidad Catolica Nordestana (UCNE)

The Catholic University Nordestana (UCNE) was founded on March 14, 1978. It is a Catholic Institution of Higher Education, Nonprofit, Community service led by the Bishop of San Francisco de Macoris, and sponsored by Nordestana Catholic University Foundation, Inc.

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Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)

USFQ, founded in 1988, was the first private, fully self-financed University in Ecuador. Per their website, the Mission of USFQ is “to train, educate, research and serve the community in the liberal arts philosophy of integrating all sectors of society.” UF and USFQ have partnered together on service trips to disadvantaged communities in Ecuador for over 10 years. We are expanding our partnership to include exchange of students for clinical rotations and creating faculty-student teams to undertake service and research projects in Ecuador under the Global Health Equity.

The history of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is closely linked to the development of medicine, science research in Peru. Its foundation, in 1961, originated when an important group of professors with extensive experience in the teaching of medicine at the most prestigious public university in the country until then, had the vision of creating a University with high academic demands, contributing to the research in health and sciences in the country and the world. These visionary doctors created the Cayetano Heredia Teachers' Medical Union on July 25, 1961, to begin operating at the premises of the National Academy of Medicine.

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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

The history of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is closely linked to the development of medicine, science research in Peru. Its foundation, in 1961, originated when an important group of professors with extensive experience in the teaching of medicine at the most prestigious public university in the country until then, had the vision of creating a University with high academic demands, contributing to the research in health and sciences in the country and the world. These visionary doctors created the Cayetano Heredia Teachers' Medical Union on July 25, 1961, to begin operating at the premises of the National Academy of Medicine.

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Univeridad Catolica Santo Domingo

The Santo Domingo Catholic University seeks to contribute to the increase of high culture and fuller development of the human person through the ardent search for truth and its unselfish transmission to youth and all those who learn to think rigorously, to act honestly and to better serve society, so that they become outstanding men and women for knowledge, ready to play responsible roles in society and to testify their faith to the world. As its contribution to the development of Christian character and the social, economic, cultural and political advancement of Dominican society

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Université d'Etat d'Haiti UEH

The State University of Haiti is the largest higher education and research institution in the country. Across the region, it brings together more than 20,000 students, 1,500 teachers and 800 agents and administrative executives. The metropolitan region is the seat of the central administration and 11 teaching and research units. Cap-Haitien is home to the only faculty of the UEH in the provinces, while six other cities have a law school. During the 2006-2007 academic year, more than half of the UEH student population was enrolled in these provincial schools and faculties specializing in legal or economic sciences.

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Student Exchange

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