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Shoulder to Shoulder Global is now accepting applications for the 2018 brigades to Santo Domingo, Ecuador. Participants engage in a variety of cultural and service-learning opportunities while  providing services such as basic medical and dental care, health education, school health screenings, women’s health, home visits and community-based learning. The 2018 brigade dates are:

  • March 10th – 18th (UK Spring Break)
  • May 11th – 20th
  • June 1st – 10th (this brigade is not clinically focused and works with community partners such as an assisted living facility, children’s home and local school)
  • August 3rd – 12th

Cost is $1,100 all-inclusive except for one meal and RT airfare to Quito. Travel medical insurance is included in the brigade fee.

Applications for 2018 brigades and information about scholarships can be found at Shoulder to Shoulder Global’s website.

To be considered for first round selection, the application deadline is Sunday, October 9th.

Hope to see you in Ecuador in 2018!

We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.

In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.

We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.