We believe our graduates are the best evidence of our program.
They are volunteers, partners, ambassadors, advocates, and donors.
They strive to improve well-being, and improve life. They are your nurse. They are your future doctor. They are your social worker. They are your physiotherapist. They live in Kelowna, across Canada, and all around the globe, and they work in healthcare because they want to make a difference.
Our talented, capable, and motivated graduates are the best evidence of our top class student experience. Our faculty’s mission is to continue to build our relationship with our alumni, and we invite you to share your career and education experiences with us.
Moments of Truth
She would never dare compare herself to the familiar faces of caring that people everywhere recognize—Florence Nightingale, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa. But Samantha Waller has no less a burning desire to help the disadvantaged and change the world for the better, one life at a time.
A Bright Future
Waller is a fourth-year nursing student at UBC’s Okanagan School of Nursing. She has taken on the mantle of leadership and recognizes she can play a larger role.
Need donations to build a nursing clinic in rural Ghana? There’s Sam Waller, pitching suits at a Chamber of Commerce meeting, collecting bottles, meeting with groups of UBC students, talking to high schoolers and connecting with people in Alberta’s energy capital of Fort McMurray, publicizing UBC’s efforts to build the clinic for a Ghana village deprived of accessible health care.
Meet Samantha
Passion Projects
Call someone a community organizer and you picture a dedicated, tireless volunteer working to incrementally change the weave of social fabric.
UBC grad student’s gleaning project engages community
Life is a juggling act for Casey Hamilton: Social entrepreneur. Anti-poverty advocate. Urban sustainability activist. Dietitian. Backyard fruit harvester.Two years ago, she founded the Okanagan Tree Fruit Project, salvaging the excess production from backyard fruit trees.
From an initial pick of 5,000 pounds in 2012, the Okanagan Fruit Tree Project reaped 17,500 pounds last year, and this year’s tally surpassed 30,000 pounds of fruit and produce by mid-October. Meet Casey
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