POSHA, which stands for Promoting, Organizing, and Supporting Health Awareness, is an non-profit organization established in 2013 by a group of pre-medical students at the University of Michigan. These students each noticed the lack of proper healthcare in rural areas in their mother country of India and decided to change this. These areas have minimal to no access to healthcare, so POSHA's goal became to provide proper healthcare to these regions through mission trips to villages in India, among other areas, and fundraising efforts in hopes of establishing better health facilities.

 

In order to make our mission become a reality, we partnered with a public charitable trust named Udyam centered in Bangalore, India. The members of Udyam will help us hold clinics to provide rudimentary healthcare for these communities. 

The mission of POSHA is to…

 

1.To provide the proper healthcare to underprivileged people living in impoverished areas through free medical clinics, via fundraising efforts, in which people can receive physicals and other services that they would not have access to.

 

2. To educate rural communities on the benefits of a proper lifestyle and proper hygiene through seminars and personal meetings with doctors, in order to instill knowledge in people about the hazards of straying from a said lifestyle.

 

3. To help pre-health students by giving them opportunities to immerse themselves in an environment where people need medical guidance.