GlobeMed at the University of Michigan is unique (and very lucky!) in that we are able to partner with both a local and an                                             international organization. And we are very proud to have the Amún Shéa School alongside the Perkin Educational            

                                          Opportunities Foundation (PEOF) as our international partner in Perquín, Morazán, El Salvador!

 

                                              The Amún Shéa School is a problem-based learning program focused on solving the

                                               underdevelopment of northern Morazán in El Salvador. The school’s curriculum

                                               has four main points of focus: problem-based learning, nutrition, creative

                                               achievement, and infrastructural investment. Amún Shéa is building a new

                                             educational model through investigation, experimentation, and

                                         application. The Perkin Educational Opportunities Foundation 

                                      (PEOF) is a non-profit U.S. public charity 501(c)(3) founded with the

                                   goal of community enrichment through education in Central

                          America, originating in Perquín, Morazán.  PEOF is also registered in

El Salvador as a foreign non-profit foundation. The board members of PEOF are a

multi-disciplined, broad-based group of individuals who each became aware of

the educational needs of the population through their own experience in the

area.  The foundation is designed to focus and multiply those individual efforts,

as well as provide the opportunity to individuals, groups and institutions to

join a long-term, non-partisan endeavor that will have a lasting positive impact

in an area that has seen much of the opposite. 

 

As you may already know from this website, our 2014 GROW internship

is in collaboration with Amún Shéa and PEOF, so we want you to get to

know them better too! Check out our posts below to see the latest on

the Amún Shéa-GlobeMed partnership! And for even more info about 

Amún Shéa and PEOF, check out their facebook page HERE and their

website HERE!

 

Enjoy!