Student projects find success with University crowdfunding platform
13 Jun 2016
Crowdfunding at Manchester, an online platform which allows students and researchers to create their own projects and ask for donations to make them happen, was launched last month
So far, two projects have successfully raised funds using the platform, which they’ll use to make an impact on communities internationally over the summer break. Medical students Courtland Linder and James Penney, with alumnus Dr Stephen Spencer, raised the final £2000 they needed for their expedition to Madagascar. Their project seeks to better understand the impact which Schistosomiasis, a disease carried by parasites living in dirty water, is having on communities in the area. The team will be treating children suffering with the effects of the parasite, which can cause anaemia and liver failure, conditions which can eventually be fatal.
Team Gulu, a group of 11 undergraduates students from Manchester Global Health Society, have also successfully raised the funding they needed to carry out voluntary work in Uganda this summer as part of the Northern Uganda Voluntary Health Outreach Project (NUV-HOP). The group successfully bid for funding from several donor-supported funds within the University, as well as asking their friends and family to make donations. In total they exceeded their target and raised over £9000 which will pay for outreach clinics to isolated communities, and support the students while they are shadowing and assisting local health professionals at Gulu Referral Hospital.
Crowdfunding is an online way of asking a wide group of people to contribute to making a project happen.
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