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Summer 2014

Newsletter

Timmy Global Health- IU Chapter

Expanding access to healthcare;
empowering students and
volunteers to engage directly in
global development.

6/15/14

Topics
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Letter from Timmys IU

Chapter President, Tommy
Bebekoski

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Donations and Fundraising

Committees

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Marketing and Community

Committees

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Message from AJ Sood,

Chair of Professional
Recruitment

The World of Timmy

Happy Summer, everyone! We hope you had an exciting year
with Timmy Global Healths IU Chapter and that you have
been enjoying your summer break. This past year, we planned
all kinds of events to fundraise for our annual spring break
medical brigade to Guatemala and to spread awareness on what
Timmy is all about. We had 20 IU Timmys who embarked on
the exciting journey this past Spring: Alexis Daniel, Amanda
Gray, Darian Allen, Elizabeth Schueth, Frankie Zirille, Hannah
Eck, Janit Pandya, Jason Zappia, Jill Williams, Kenneth
Guerra, Kenzie Langdon, Lindsey Stern, Matty
Hodge, Michael Carson, Molly Corya, Olivia SanchezFelix, Paige Boyer, Reaghan Crone, Rebecca Yeaky, and Sarah
Watkins. We are grateful for their hard work and dedication
and are looking forward to another successful year with Timmy
Global Health!

Interested in getting involved?

Contact Tommy Bebekoski, IU Chapter Timmy president, at
tbebekos@indiana.edu for more information.

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Message from Tommy Bebekoski

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Dear Timmy Members and Friends of Timmy,

I happily write to you after concluding what was one of IU
Timmys best years here on campus. Our chapter has always
taken pride in sharing our successes with all members of
Timmy and the community. This school year has been a truly
memorable one for IU Timmy, with progress from this past
year of which we can all be satisfied. I am very pleased to share
with you what IU Timmy has done this past school year!
To begin, as one of over 35 college chapters around the nation,
Timmy Global Health at Indiana University aspires to provide sustainable, quality health care to
impoverished Guatemalan citizens. We are able to do this by fundraising monetary funds and
medications and, most importantly, by cultivating philanthropic ideals within our members and
volunteers.
All of our tireless efforts by our general members were able to render results as we sent twenty IU
students, along with medical professionals and supporting staff down to Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala, to operate mobile primary care clinics in rural, impoverished communities. At the
end of the week-long brigade, our IU students had learned how to take vitals, translate medical
terms, and help administer medicine to hundreds of men, women, and children. Through the
poignant experiences that these students saw in Guatemala, they brought home an unforgettable
array of knowledge that we can utilize to empower our own fellow students in understanding
Timmys mission for expanding access to quality healthcare for people at home and abroad.
One special shout-out must be made to our cheerful, kind, and supportive faculty advisor, Dr.
Kate Reck, who has been with IU Timmy since its inception in 2001. Dr. Reck truly emulates
what it means to be a Timmy, and for that, she has inspired so many of our members to pursue
Timmy for all years of college and even in one form or another as a career after graduation. We
owe much to Dr. Reck and her contagious passion. We were thrilled to see Dr. Reck be
recognized this year as Student Life and Learnings Advisor of the Year! Now, our entire campus
understands the quality advisor with which we have been blessed to work, as it is clear that she
has made an impact on the students she advises. We love you, Kate!
In sum, I would like to express my gratitude, on behalf of the entire 2013-2014 Timmy Executive
Board and all general members, to everyone that has made our work possible: those that have
supported us through donations, those who have supported us through attending our events, and
those who have morally supported our students. Our work could not be achieved without your
unwavering support and generosity. Because of this, we are able to volunteer our time and render
real change in the lives of our brothers and sisters all around the community and world, as well as
our own lives, forever.
Sincerely,
Thomas Bebekoski
President, IU Timmy Global Health

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Donations and
Fundraising
Committees
Donations

The purpose of the donations committee is to

collect medicinal donations at local grocery
stores for the chapter's annual medical brigade
to Guatemala. The fundraising
committee plans events to raise
money for the brigade.

In Donations this year, local Kroger grocery stores

here in Bloomington were instrumental in helping
us reach and surpass our vitamin number goals. IU
Timmy is proud to be the leading chapter in the
nation with regards to procuring tens of thousands
of vitamins, and in addition, our Donations
committee made and reached a goal this year to
procure more lotions and sunscreens for our patients
than ever before.

Fundraising
Our Fundraising committee did a fantastic job,
surpassing the past several years totals! Our totals
have not yet been finalized, but the Fundraising
committee projects gross fundraising totals to be
approximately $15,000.00. These funds were
raised through annual events such as a holiday
letter drive, a student 3-on-3 basketball
tournament, concert at a local bar, and numerous
dine and donates at local restaurants. In addition,
our Fundraising committee planned a beautiful
benefit dinner in celebration of Timmys yearly
initiatives this year, attended by students and parents
and members of the community, and this years
dinner was one of the most successful dinners in
terms of fundraising in IU Timmys history.

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Marketing
Working in conjunction with our
Fundraising committee has been our
Marketing committee, which has been
instrumental in helping advertise all of
these events so that funds can be raised.
Marketing members have come up with
creative new ways to spread the name of
Timmy in the community.

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Marketing
and
Community

Marketing members have designed Timmy apparel and stickers this year,
expanded IU Timmy to new social media fronts, and have even established a
new partnership with Indiana All-Media to advertise our biggest events. As a
result, we were very pleased to see great success in our football tailgate
canning initiatives this year, in particular. We had surpassed all previous
years totals by fundraising in this manner. Even further, we were proud to
continue our exciting second annual Glow Run, newly begun last year, which
turned out to be another huge hit on the campus among the IU students!

Our Newest Committee: Community

Community members seek to take Timmys mission into the campus
and local community through innovative and fun ways. First, the
community committee began the year with the Global Health
Symposium, bringing in three well-versed panelists (Matt MacGregor Timmy's Executive Director at the time, Dr. Jackson Williams Division Chief of pediatric medicine at the Baystate Hospital, Dr.
Gregory Wilson - Richard M. Fairbanks Chair in Community Health
and Associate chair for Community and Global Health in IU School of
Medicine's Department of Public Health). On campus the Community
committee decorated the IMU Starbucks using beautiful pictures to
share Timmy's mission to all those who passed for three weeks. Next,
they expanded our volunteerism in Bloomington by setting up and
cleaning up the National Down Syndrome Society's Buddy Walk.
Timmy's Community committee is also currently working on a new
program that will begin next semester providing more opportunities to
volunteer locally in the rehabilitation unit of the Bloomington hospital.
Yet, most impressive of all in Community this year was our new
G.O.A.L. program. Seeing as obesity is one of the largest problems the
doctors and healthcare professionals of our generation will be facing,
our Community committee created a partnership with IU Health to
implement the new G.O.A.L. University Program. Currently, a group
of 5 Timmy members are in the progress of the first six week session of
this innovative new approach where they travel to Highland Park
elementary school twice a week to teach about nutrition and living a
healthy lifestyle to students ranging from kindergarten to 6th grade.
This preventative program has given Timmy students the ability to
utilize their energy and time to provide benefits for the health care of
individuals in our communities as well as abroad in Guatemala.

Message from AJ Sood,

Chair of Professional
Recruitment

During our annual brigade to Guatemala, the success and outcomes are greatly influenced by
the selfless efforts of our medical professionals. IU Timmys Professional Recruitment recruits
around 8 medical professionals to come on the trip to help direct and organize our clinics, and to
facilitate student development, and to provide the best primary care services possible. Every year, the
medical professionals positions include a diverse set of specialties and training backgrounds,
including doctors, nurses, physicians assistants, and pharmacists. IU Timmys Professional
Recruitment is committed to providing a seamless and fulfilling experience for our medical
professionals. This year was one of our most successful trips, and we would like to thank the
following medical professionals for their efforts:
Amy Steinhour, PA-C |Ottawa, IL
Kevin Haughton, MD |Olympia, WA
Pruthvish Pandya, MD. |Greenwood, IN
Maria Richards, Pharmacist |Maldon, Essex, England
Joslyn Smith, RN |South Holland, IL
Catherine Reck, PhD. |Detroit, MI
Linda Gathany, RN |Boulder, CO