Pi Phi Summer Days (Alumnae Edition); Brittany

Welcome to week four of Pi Phi Summer Days where we feature one of our lovely MD Gamma ladies and talk about whatever fascinating things they're doing this summer! This post, like the last is one of our Alumnae Editions! Side note: how is it august already? There's only a month left of freedom before school starts! Ain't nobody got time for that.

Nevertheless, today we're featuring the fabulous, the amazing, none other than the matriarch of the taco pham, Brittany T., everybody!! 

Hailing from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, Brittany graduated in May along with many other MD Gamma charter class members. She was a member the Sirens, Hopkins's female acapella group, pre-med, and now has an official day named after her in her hometown (for real, guys).

Since she graduated from Hopkins she has been living in Hinche, Haiti, working with an NGO there called Midwives for Haiti. The organization's main goal is to decrease birth-related infant and mother mortality rates in Haiti. 

Congratulations, Britanny! We know you're going to go far.

"Their primary focus is the midwifery school that they run, as well as a teaching program for community birth attendants. They run a mobile clinic, where graduates of our midwifery program go out to remote villages in a big pink jeep and provide pre- and post-natal care to women who otherwise don't have access to maternity care. As the In-Country Coordinator, or the only American from organization who is in the country full-time, my job is to coordinate all things to do with volunteers (like transportation, translators, food, etc.), supplies for the mobile clinic/hospital/classes, house maintenance (I'm basically a host for up to 12 people at a time, and to see to the needs of any midwifery students, any matrons, any instructors, staff, or volunteers. It's a busy job!"

Congratulations on this amazing opportunity, Britanny; we know you're going to change so many lives. We wish you all the best and hope to see you soon!

PPL & M,

Gaby