Our impact

What we have actually done.

We started as a small group of students making health cards. Now we run campaigns on two continents, give presentations to full rooms, and work with members of Congress on billing transparency. Here is the work, with what each number counts.

By the numbers

175+
Chapters launched: Since we started.; 100
Chapters active today: Running programs right now.; 70+
Events held: Clinics, workshops, drives and fundraisers.; $4,000+
Raised: Every dollar from student-run fundraisers.; 100+
Students who made health cards: Writing, designing and translating them.; 25+
Schools and institutions: That distributed our cards for us.; 70+
Interns: Who wrote guides to navigating the healthcare system.; 2,000
In-person attendees: Counted across our events.; 29
U.S. states: 33
Countries & territories: 2.3M+
Impressions: On our health content across our online channels.

From a few students with markers to rooms full of people.

Health cards

100+ students wrote health cards. Local students translated them.

It started small: students writing plain-language cards on the conditions families ask about most, with graphics, short presentations and a few basic supplies to go with them. Students in the communities we worked with translated each card into the language people speak at home, and the cards were handed out in rural communities by people who already knew them.

Distributed through 25+ schools, colleges and institutions

School children in uniform crowding around a student volunteer handing out FHI health cards

Stroke awareness

Stroke awareness campaigns in rural Africa, reaching thousands

Working alongside neurology organizations in Africa, we ran campaigns teaching people to recognise the signs of a stroke and to act fast. In places where the nearest specialist can be hours away, knowing what a drooping face or a slurred sentence means is often the part that matters.

With partner neurology organizations

A physician in a white coat speaking to rows of students in a school courtyard

Breast cancer awareness

A room full of students, a morning on breast cancer

We ran a breast cancer awareness event for students: a presentation on what breast cancer is, how common it is, the risk factors and how it is diagnosed. Then everyone got hands-on, writing cards at a letters station, making bracelets, signing an awareness poster, and finishing with a quiz on what they had learned.

Presentation, letters station, crafts and a quiz

A full room of students watching a presentation on breast cancer statistics

Across the country

Raised in Texas. Given in California. Taught in Michigan.

Our chapters don't stay in one place. Students raised money at fundraisers in Austin, Texas and donated it to homelessness efforts in California, while other chapters held educational sessions in Michigan. Every dollar has come from events students ran themselves.

$4,000+ raised across 70+ events

A volunteer painting a small design on a student's cheek at an outdoor fundraiser table

Interns

70+ interns wrote guides to a system that confuses everyone

Insurance, billing, referrals, where to go when you don't have a doctor: our interns researched it and wrote it down as guides that families can actually follow.

Guides to navigating the healthcare system

Nine volunteers standing behind a table covered in handwritten notes of encouragement

A few of the cards

Written and designed by students, then translated by students in the communities that received them.

Medical bills shouldn't be a surprise.

We have worked with several U.S. representatives to push for a healthcare billing transparency act, so that patients can see what care costs before the bill arrives.

Every country we have worked in

33 countries and territories

Breast cancer awareness event

Presentation, letters station, crafts and a quiz

The Breast Cancer Awareness Month title slide in front of a room of students

A volunteer in pink running the letters station while students write cards

A student signing a black Awareness for Breast Cancer poster in pink marker

Markers, glue and blank cards spread across a craft table

Two student presenters at a podium in front of a Risk Factors slide

Bags of colourful beads laid out for bracelet making

Students threading pink bracelets around a table

Students leaning over the awareness poster to add their names

Students crowding toward the screen for the closing quiz

We work with people who were already there.

Days for Girls
Global · 145 countries
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A global nonprofit changing the way the world experiences menstrual health. Its washable menstrual kits and health education have reached more than 3.9 million girls and women in 145 countries, so that a period no longer means missing school or work.
What we did together
We raised funds for Days for Girls and helped spread the word about their work, because a girl who misses a week of school every month has a health problem as much as an education one.
Bertu Tesfa
Hosaena, Ethiopia
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A charitable organization that has provided free education, healthcare, meals and clothing to vulnerable children in Ethiopia since 2012, funded through community and monthly sponsorship.
What we did together
We helped fund Bertu Tesfa's work, and together we brought healthcare education to a couple hundred thousand children in Ethiopia.
Neurology organizations across Africa
Rural Africa
Neurologists and neurology groups working on stroke, one of the leading causes of death and disability across the continent. In many rural communities few people know its warning signs, and the nearest specialist can be hours away.
What we did together
Together we ran stroke awareness campaigns in rural communities, teaching thousands of people to recognise a stroke and to get help fast.

College chapters

Start one at your college

Tufts UniversityBoston, Massachusetts
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas
Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, Oregon
Florida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida
Florida SouthWestern State CollegeFort Myers, Florida
St. Paul's Co-educational CollegeHong Kong

The next 400,000 cards are waiting on a printer.

Help print them

$4,000of $10,000

40%

$6,000 to go. That is 240,000 more health cards.