Information: UCLA MEDLIFE hosts various community service events to give back to our community as well as provide medical aid abroad. More info for Fall Quarter '20 is TBA.
Check out our upcoming events below and if you are interested, please go to our "Contact Us" page!
ORGANIZATIONS THAT UCLA MEDLIFE HAS PARTNERED WITH:
- DIG Initiative: to educate students on sustainability; focuses on cultivating fresh foods and students can learn how to grow vegetables/plants organically! What we did: cultivated lettuce, broccoli, and other vegetables; helped plant seeds for new plants!
- Safe Place for Youth Initiative: to provide a safe place for youth living in Venice, California with clothes, food, and resources such as computers and books! What we did: sort through clothes from donations
- Sound the Alarm - American Red Cross Initiative: to install fire alarms in homes and educate families on how to prevent home fires from occurring What we did: teamed up in groups of three to go to the designated homes for our group; asked if they would like for smoke detectors to be installed!
- Food Bank Initiative: to distribute food to organizations/charities for hunger relief What we did: made packages of fruits and vegetables for LA communities experiencing food shortages
- Union Rescue Mission Initiative: to serve meals for guests, provide learning centers, and program for youth and children What we did: prepared meals for homeless populations near Skid Row
FUNDRAISERS
UCLA MEDLIFE works to fundraise money to give scholarships to students for the summer and spring service trips! Here are some of our members on Bruinwalk!