On Tuesday, February 18, UMH Bachelor’s in Psychology program students can listen to four volunteer organizations explain their activities and the services they provide in a workshop that is taking place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time in Room 1.3 of Altabix Hall on the Elche Campus. Participants at this event include the Association [...]
The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), in conjunction with its Vice Rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation, hereby announces places to participate in the 2025 UMH International Development Cooperation Volunteer Program in Rwanda. This edition, its 12th, is introducing a few new features, and one of them for 2025 is that the volunteer stays are [...]
A delegation from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) traveled to Rwanda to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nemba Hospital, an entity the UMH collaborates with through the UMH Headquarters in Rwanda Chair. Individuals representing the UMH at this event included Mariano Pérez Arroyo, the former director of the Center of Cooperation at the UMH; [...]
On November 27 – 29, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) participated at the ‘University Development Cooperation Congress IX: New Scenarios and Challenges’ in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain). At this event, Lis Gaibar, Co-director of the UMH Headquarters in Rwanda Chair, spoke to university development cooperation experts and academics about the training UMH [...]
The UMH Board of Trustees has posthumously recognized Dr. Francisco Colomina for his contributions to the training of health care professionals of intensive care units at the Rwandan hospitals of Nemba and Ruhengeri. These contributions were made possible by the UMH Headquarters in Rwanda Chair, and the recognition for them was given at the tenth [...]
The response by the UMH community to participate in the one-day UMH volunteering initiative to help the areas affected by the flash flooding to regain normalcy has been extremely successful. In all, 690 UMH community members have registered to participate in this volunteering effort, which is being coordinated by organizations there working on the ground. The [...]