tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49540538904475906842024-03-14T02:18:31.903-04:00Project HOPE In the FieldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger429125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-41563040710783596892011-01-13T11:17:00.003-05:002011-01-13T13:25:02.060-05:00In the Field Blog Now Hosted on Project HOPE Web SiteOur blogs are now being hosted on the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>Web site. Enjoy our continuing blogs from staff and volunteers In the Field working in HOPE's lifesaving health education and humanitarian assistance programs around the world.<br /><br />In the Field Blog now at <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/news-blogs/In-the-Field-blog/">http://www.projecthope.org/news-blogs/In-the-Field-blog/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-44599269086644562542010-12-23T11:44:00.003-05:002010-12-23T12:01:21.144-05:00Seasons Greetings From Project HOPEAs part of the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>family, we’d like to wish you a warm and joyous holiday season. Thanks to your continued support and contributions, we have been able to achieve another year of lifesaving health care missions all around the world. We are truly grateful to be part of an organization that has so many extraordinary supporters!<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553923310389588722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBtRQWUtRqXYTDgvSNh41wjlMuRMPw2y0kBYhzy-TsGErW5AmS3S0X-ZqRlR2ASwxBmQWFumxJ0rSRkL9cGX8MbJ6eANX3cojSayqmsYXzUqgK9aQKf9rYq-3kTcViIxLtwJlX1l-OnDK/s400/holiday-email-image2.jpg" /><br />Also, please take a few minutes to check out our new Web Site. Our recent redesign now includes hosting our blogs on our site. <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/news-blogs/In-the-Field-blog/">http://www.projecthope.org/news-blogs/In-the-Field-blog/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-86114870170677676622010-12-07T09:40:00.015-05:002010-12-07T10:00:38.800-05:00Saving Lives in Haiti<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZ9qxYEkU5I4JiDWIoHs875WWqP_VMkgsiWMXNd7BVsq4JqVMQb1c1m2ejTOZL9NrvEE2BwSbipkfrP0hCiUCy9J22nIISfDVenEzHkhaM6NcZPoswznfceBBwpN_acy8V_fiYnWVj3RR/s1600/Katie+D%2527Entremont.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547952694845029266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZ9qxYEkU5I4JiDWIoHs875WWqP_VMkgsiWMXNd7BVsq4JqVMQb1c1m2ejTOZL9NrvEE2BwSbipkfrP0hCiUCy9J22nIISfDVenEzHkhaM6NcZPoswznfceBBwpN_acy8V_fiYnWVj3RR/s320/Katie+D%2527Entremont.jpg" /></a>The second rotation of <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>volunteer medical personnel has just returned from Haiti after spending up to three weeks in Hôpital Albert Schweitzer fighting that country's cholera outbreak. The six nurses and one doctor worked every day on the cholera ward. The hospital, which is located in Haiti's Artibonite River Valley, is at the epicenter of the outbreak.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Qh9qMYqTAhi4pDhiLVFGgoMByeo373LxUDF1A5zQfGIer_xSuQkc3FXUWylEGcWn48OsXg2ZX5De0l9UDeCQqb5rSvrfAdix1J-RHLVztlc1VcuOHPYYq2qazGTsccW4z1C68o9OXtjE/s1600/CheriHoffman.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547954385505362914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Qh9qMYqTAhi4pDhiLVFGgoMByeo373LxUDF1A5zQfGIer_xSuQkc3FXUWylEGcWn48OsXg2ZX5De0l9UDeCQqb5rSvrfAdix1J-RHLVztlc1VcuOHPYYq2qazGTsccW4z1C68o9OXtjE/s200/CheriHoffman.jpg" /></a>The largest proportion of Haiti's cases are from that region, and this team arrived just after Hurricane Tomas stirred up the water sources and brought cholera to a large percentage of the population. Below are some of the experiences they had while there:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DdY-JPN6BMX70D4gPj5Plg8otoqdGpc8P5MUhFy3_qHaX1HW-gSjyB4H9mzoST3bRjaEkhmu94hlHxaLpCiSeFOuIa-vRtQoQPemuI5wl5GRGavusRn5gWmjn3uRlBMWgAI3bw1-1P_P/s1600/aislinnmangan.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547954379179530402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DdY-JPN6BMX70D4gPj5Plg8otoqdGpc8P5MUhFy3_qHaX1HW-gSjyB4H9mzoST3bRjaEkhmu94hlHxaLpCiSeFOuIa-vRtQoQPemuI5wl5GRGavusRn5gWmjn3uRlBMWgAI3bw1-1P_P/s200/aislinnmangan.jpg" /></a>Nurses Katie D'Entremont, Aislinn Mangan, and Cheri Hoffman were working the night shift when a very sick boy arrived. The boy was severely dehydrated from cholera, plus was suffering from severe asthma. His airway was almost closed off, and his blood oxygen levels were very low. No one was available from the pharmacy to dispense medications that could help, so the nurses scoured the hospital to find the appropriate drugs. The steroids and airway dilators were found on the Pediatric ward, and the boy was stabilized thanks to their efforts.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-lV8q4n58eDM0Ou6VsEGfWdedXuy6I3HROKgekMChqXYiah8CP8Y5d7A1rUPFg1w45cf1t6QNKmhLbAnPt8HxG74lcIvCWEOo04r43RSGRQ9MWjaDDbjnSlO24jQQJ5ENSTbS_SXsQEu/s1600/Susan+Hall2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547952698528561266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-lV8q4n58eDM0Ou6VsEGfWdedXuy6I3HROKgekMChqXYiah8CP8Y5d7A1rUPFg1w45cf1t6QNKmhLbAnPt8HxG74lcIvCWEOo04r43RSGRQ9MWjaDDbjnSlO24jQQJ5ENSTbS_SXsQEu/s320/Susan+Hall2.jpg" /></a>Susan Hall, RN had worked a long day shift on the cholera ward and was relaxing one evening. She heard that there was a very sick patient who had arrived who needed IV access for fluids. No one on the ward had been able to obtain access, so Susan ran back to the ward to help. Using the skills acquired after years of cardiac surgery experience, she was able to quickly cannulate a vein so that the patient could get the resuscitative fluids she needed.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga99po-tyBtbe9MmPdRRQwByeIOYh14FsmxWIsgwQ2gM7ebBt5YWLkoUqcwU5mWTi833JYRPLZrY4ovWY3WQUYAG4JmG0XuEnykvWa4GEJYJjdGWd5uryI041LVt0Q8u3RoySS47xtbfZx/s1600/katiewithmicaelaroot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547954380511085538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga99po-tyBtbe9MmPdRRQwByeIOYh14FsmxWIsgwQ2gM7ebBt5YWLkoUqcwU5mWTi833JYRPLZrY4ovWY3WQUYAG4JmG0XuEnykvWa4GEJYJjdGWd5uryI041LVt0Q8u3RoySS47xtbfZx/s200/katiewithmicaelaroot.jpg" /></a>Micaela Root, RN, a first time HOPE volunteer, had only four hours notice that she would be going to Haiti! She quickly got her affairs in order, obtained the time off from work, and ran to catch her plane. Micaela was an invaluable member of the nursing team while there, working nonstop to change IV fluids in a timely manner, flush clotted IVs, and assist in resuscitations.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLq32G2GMfk58xiR66YrtzamT-g4ZmRTBAyDk3-XXnMtVgluGuL_Dx_kQELLj0TK1J0NkdcQ-na5y3DLix1OirSP4oqG4UVaz7HMdJHQWxTRxqE_uz620OY3E17dvt0UDo5bRFS2-i6Rh/s1600/dr+steven+gardner.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547952689464800786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLq32G2GMfk58xiR66YrtzamT-g4ZmRTBAyDk3-XXnMtVgluGuL_Dx_kQELLj0TK1J0NkdcQ-na5y3DLix1OirSP4oqG4UVaz7HMdJHQWxTRxqE_uz620OY3E17dvt0UDo5bRFS2-i6Rh/s320/dr+steven+gardner.jpg" /></a>Steven Gardner, MD and Cherri Dobson, RN worked together to save one patient who was discovered in hypovolemic shock. The patient was unresponsive, without palpable pulses, and had a heart rate of 30. Cherri, who was not at work at the time, was summoned when the staff was unable to place an IV. She ran over from the library and was able to place an effective IV in the patient. Meanwhile, Dr. Gardner put a catheter in the femoral vein and was manually holding it in place while fluids were pumped in. The patient survived and was walking around the next day.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGDZiUr2zKLS0zmmmRLjyh3m7ByRoOWCswqy-jgLBG2TFB65HP_N7iRsSmbRiVEFNrWGCFmVGCCSupWPGTxGycC90rQaGpVDm8XabSiifGIMhmFgacTIx9hZELGdQ8xQ31jcG1ZRIVsOJ/s1600/DSC_0447.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547954155516122498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGDZiUr2zKLS0zmmmRLjyh3m7ByRoOWCswqy-jgLBG2TFB65HP_N7iRsSmbRiVEFNrWGCFmVGCCSupWPGTxGycC90rQaGpVDm8XabSiifGIMhmFgacTIx9hZELGdQ8xQ31jcG1ZRIVsOJ/s320/DSC_0447.jpg" /></a>Those were just some of the many experiences had by the HOPE team during their stay at HAS. Cholera is a devastating disease, but it is very curable if the medical and nursing teams work efficiently to provide rapid fluid resuscitation. All the volunteers had a very rewarding time at HAS, and all were tired but happy to return home after their rotation was over.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5ojhLCbbHhcnfcLZ9-HqyUK_8RJh1wONb8Md-jX25MCyHqqw1ifmISeLdAKw2W5IT4-ePGe3PZnSYwuEqIM87-t-U5wHszDjRaRuiUAhY3EYJnIfAawkSZsDUQgtAaEWzjsejsfyFUOY/s1600/cheryldobsonweb.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541276293953420034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5ojhLCbbHhcnfcLZ9-HqyUK_8RJh1wONb8Md-jX25MCyHqqw1ifmISeLdAKw2W5IT4-ePGe3PZnSYwuEqIM87-t-U5wHszDjRaRuiUAhY3EYJnIfAawkSZsDUQgtAaEWzjsejsfyFUOY/s400/cheryldobsonweb.jpg" /></a><em>Story submitted by Project HOPE volunteer Cherri Dobson, a critical care nurse from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California. Cherri recently returned from Haiti, her fourth volunteer mission for Project HOPE.</em><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti"><strong>More on our work in Haiti</strong></a><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b">Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-32604042468371024812010-12-06T12:21:00.010-05:002010-12-06T12:33:09.830-05:00HOPE offers Diabetes Holiday Cooking Class in rural New Mexico<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>“Getting through the Holidays on a Healthy Note!”<br /><br /></strong></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHCVMcn-z3c0mgqPBDPvM_lc6aAX3qDAWo9bUwQsP7ENGx9e-bQ-JEGm7Ov_xnWHK8UBaZ2qAPK1RA5BYjgsRBevz106gNnzi8umYnzpRwUCFLp1GJlsfxDfzHrfljWLk1gC4SnelygDN/s1600/new+mexico+2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547622037840657570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHCVMcn-z3c0mgqPBDPvM_lc6aAX3qDAWo9bUwQsP7ENGx9e-bQ-JEGm7Ov_xnWHK8UBaZ2qAPK1RA5BYjgsRBevz106gNnzi8umYnzpRwUCFLp1GJlsfxDfzHrfljWLk1gC4SnelygDN/s320/new+mexico+2.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>New Mexico in collaboration with our partners, New Mexico Department of Public Health (NMDOH), Luna County Health Council, PMS Deming Health Center and the Luna County Extension Office, hosted a diabetes cooking class to help educate residents on how to prepare a diabetes-friendly holiday meal.<br /><br />With all the traditional sweet foods and holiday gatherings, the holiday season can be challenging for people with diabetes and their families. The goal of the HABITS for Life program is to educate and offer alternative strategies for eating healthy. HOPE and its partners realized the need for offering a class that can get people “Through the Holidays on a Healthy Note” and worked together to coordinate this event. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47JxhymWhJuH01UP_LZAF2z7Fr2FCvpeWLuGCIBTsjlDu85OPiT9DV4exaPCwZyOn4tlQeqXwe8PbyPZWGkX6n6cbfl_yd0V710oB8GmKn2QsO1ZkSMpmMVY3Q9bgJF5HgmWxeSnDm0GD/s1600/New+Mexico.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 241px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547622033463974802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47JxhymWhJuH01UP_LZAF2z7Fr2FCvpeWLuGCIBTsjlDu85OPiT9DV4exaPCwZyOn4tlQeqXwe8PbyPZWGkX6n6cbfl_yd0V710oB8GmKn2QsO1ZkSMpmMVY3Q9bgJF5HgmWxeSnDm0GD/s320/New+Mexico.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Residents, partners and HOPE representatives gathered around the kitchen for the diabetes cooking class and also had an open discussion about managing Holiday stress at Bethel Baptist Church in Deming, New Mexico on December 3rd. Men and women were taught how to make lasagna, salad and a traditional Mexican bread pudding known as capirotada, using healthy options.<br /><br />The event was extremely successful and appreciated by those individuals who attended. One male resident said, “This is such an important class because being a care giver for my wife who has Type 1 diabetes, ….. I ran out of ideas of things to make my wife. I cook for her every single day, all meals and this was delicious…. I am so glad that I came.”<br /><br /><em>Story and photos submitted by Trudy Gallegos BCH, MA. Trudy is Project HOPE's Health Educator and Outreach Supervisor for our new Habits for Life program in New Mexico. </em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-70343816966752287922010-12-02T10:06:00.000-05:002010-12-02T10:13:00.025-05:00Volunteers Visit Orphanage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw4HVKM07mdDHIUdXwKL2lMbr1L97OQDeXdqrsjaDhooZLoLXeEo81obCBeH8xrHV6ttc3_lJbl0ky4FRNrKxbX4-soflPmtOnz8Mql_VlCjQbOCEApFIeiu7v0laqAiJVufIHsolzy_Ln/s1600/DSC01163.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545807601784858706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw4HVKM07mdDHIUdXwKL2lMbr1L97OQDeXdqrsjaDhooZLoLXeEo81obCBeH8xrHV6ttc3_lJbl0ky4FRNrKxbX4-soflPmtOnz8Mql_VlCjQbOCEApFIeiu7v0laqAiJVufIHsolzy_Ln/s320/DSC01163.jpg" /></a>While in Haiti, the HOPE team has befriended one of their local Haitian drivers, an amazing and gentle man named Val Franklin. Val runs an orphanage for 51 children ranging from age two to high school age. The orphanage is in a little town called Bongnotte just outside of Leogane one of the hardest hit areas during the January 12th earthquake here in Haiti.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4W_gDiMEZcl8gaY-dVuv0g5Hn0nRaWOr2D-ouE50MKO8pGipsrM-6SrSIzygzzV5dlZNrJwkBVu40cLihC6KPtQTjf0HxPYhy8peKF688rw4KQSC-c0tsAg3cLQfQRjG9kBpLHyHxXuDI/s1600/DSC01184.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 288px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545807594413239394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4W_gDiMEZcl8gaY-dVuv0g5Hn0nRaWOr2D-ouE50MKO8pGipsrM-6SrSIzygzzV5dlZNrJwkBVu40cLihC6KPtQTjf0HxPYhy8peKF688rw4KQSC-c0tsAg3cLQfQRjG9kBpLHyHxXuDI/s320/DSC01184.jpg" /></a>The orphanage is called Val’s Children’s Home Care. The building that used to be the orphanage was destroyed during the earthquake but thankfully none of the children or staff were injured. The orphanage not only provides the necessities for living such as food, clothing and shelter for these 51 children but the orphanage also has a school attached to it that educates over 300 children from surrounding areas. The original idea for the orphanage came to Val during a time of great adversity. During the elections in Haiti in the mid 1980’s Val was driving for a team of journalists when he was shot four times. He made an internal promise that if his life was spared and he were to walk again he would dedicate his life to children in need. The doors of the orphanage opened in 1988 and a dedicated woman named “Aunt” Imma has lived and worked at the orphanage caring for these children ever since. In order to support the orphanage Val has driven a car and taxi service ever since its inception.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rMihtleSAa2mcei2JuhvUQLuqQw3pUwvQbNRHuXfGSO0sNz9nuae03OXfjJj7k5__czKtu77228bHrrgTPHo0qtdm5v5v7-fl3Qr8UOEGtkPldL8fQPjIUWTSQOJkowjSt9KfumI6Xcj/s1600/DSC01186.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 310px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545807596992710898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rMihtleSAa2mcei2JuhvUQLuqQw3pUwvQbNRHuXfGSO0sNz9nuae03OXfjJj7k5__czKtu77228bHrrgTPHo0qtdm5v5v7-fl3Qr8UOEGtkPldL8fQPjIUWTSQOJkowjSt9KfumI6Xcj/s320/DSC01186.jpg" /></a>While there the HOPE team had the great pleasure of listening to all the children sing a hand washing song that Val had taught them. The song was led by one of their schoolteachers who had grown up in Val’s orphanage and stayed in the village to teach. These children were happy and smiling and engaging despite all that they have been through. Val is an example of what’s great about Haiti. He loves his people, he loves his country and he wants to see the children of Haiti thrive. He has long-term goals of rebuilding the orphanage and rebuilding their school. Goals that these HOPE volunteers want to help him achieve. After a couple of weeks of being witness to the devastation the cholera epidemic has rained upon the youth of Haiti it was so refreshing to see the smiling faces at Val’s Children’s Home Care – smiling faces we will not soon forget!<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s1600/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542744678732666242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s200/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg" /></a>Photos and story submitted by HOPE volunteer, Carrie Alexander, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins MPH student.</em><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b">Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-12888401753945975692010-12-02T07:01:00.000-05:002010-12-02T10:11:59.516-05:00HOPE for Kids with Cancer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMOo-oyJnmu7sYNTRVFM7Vtm-5u_-YPqDsurEqcHfOtZAshFJIiZLtlFrRyEQLmgR5vufA9pDE4Eo9D9VdZ1ZLL0HHdR-vLSxC0aaVScZWWGlHdUcGLCFpVWCK2oz7rvo3vqHZlGgdt6O/s1600/IMG_7819.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546102338888573970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaMOo-oyJnmu7sYNTRVFM7Vtm-5u_-YPqDsurEqcHfOtZAshFJIiZLtlFrRyEQLmgR5vufA9pDE4Eo9D9VdZ1ZLL0HHdR-vLSxC0aaVScZWWGlHdUcGLCFpVWCK2oz7rvo3vqHZlGgdt6O/s320/IMG_7819.JPG" /></a>As my visit to Shanghai comes to an end, one of my lasting impressions will be the faces of the children. Behind their heart-melting smiles are the hopes and dreams for the future of this amazing country. And <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>is making sure China’s future is healthy and bright.<br /><br />I was startled to hear that 30 percent of children with cancer in China do not seek appropriate follow-up care. Even worse, 40 percent of children with cancer never receive care.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7eDoIXYPq-vlzHkwwzD7Ob_0X9jADL3zBB84UNnzVpe_u4MANcnuni7bfY_ClXU7MMCq7Nh48BVrcvE5NdhVD6UzzTmeLMrIuj6NReFw5aoSkPrHQOqd1KZsBVB-ICew0mtYsQ0t6eIL5/s1600/%25E7%2585%25A7%25E7%2589%2587+044.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546102347396351490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7eDoIXYPq-vlzHkwwzD7Ob_0X9jADL3zBB84UNnzVpe_u4MANcnuni7bfY_ClXU7MMCq7Nh48BVrcvE5NdhVD6UzzTmeLMrIuj6NReFw5aoSkPrHQOqd1KZsBVB-ICew0mtYsQ0t6eIL5/s320/%25E7%2585%25A7%25E7%2589%2587+044.jpg" /></a>Project HOPE, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, <a href="http://www.hospira.com/default.aspx">Hospira</a> and other partners are diligently working to change those numbers, as well as alleviate the suffering and save the lives of children.<br />Why am I optimistic? Just as Project HOPE, SCMC and multiple corporate and private partners developed the hospital into the world’s #1 center for pediatric heart surgery in less than 12 years, we expect the same results for the enhanced oncology program as well.<br /><br />As I mentioned earlier this week, the<a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_22_10"> new Oncology Tower at Shanghai Children’s Medical Center </a>will more than double the number of beds available to care for children with cancer.<br /><br />In addition, the Shanghai City Government recently approved the addition of a new facility that will house 500 general medicine beds that will literally double the size of the hospital and provide more opportunities for care for the children of China.<br /><br />The new Oncology Tower and the new general medicine hospital building also will include facilities and technology to educate and train even more doctors and nurses from around China. Project HOPE will direct many of the training programs that will ultimately enhance the delivery of care and improve the health of children in urban and rural areas across China.<br /><br />It’s a daunting task, but one that Project HOPE, SCMC and its partners are up to. When it comes to the health of China’s and the world’s children, Project HOPE is ready to take action.<br /><br /><em>Story by Rand Walton, HOPE's Director of Strategic Communications, now in China for the groundbreaking of the new Oncology Tower at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-54225007004539349082010-12-01T08:59:00.022-05:002010-12-01T09:44:30.991-05:00Providing Immediate Care and Building for the Future<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cholera Experts Visit HOPE Volunteers</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhogGKc91zOuNvu4rQlXoohCpKO1XL3EB-2EmLdcMLObcVxI5o3Ql2H1EfDVtQInGEHEPW4Ljr6ZV8VkXM8ZEBiq6ft3H5rmk0aFpx0O8Bi1aWInRLO3LfI6rTIJ7qGA7wuPX4JHvIHL8ay/s1600/DSC02427.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545715227610882658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhogGKc91zOuNvu4rQlXoohCpKO1XL3EB-2EmLdcMLObcVxI5o3Ql2H1EfDVtQInGEHEPW4Ljr6ZV8VkXM8ZEBiq6ft3H5rmk0aFpx0O8Bi1aWInRLO3LfI6rTIJ7qGA7wuPX4JHvIHL8ay/s320/DSC02427.jpg" /></a>After several days on the road the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_16_10">ICDDR,B</a> <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>team flew out of Cap Haitien on the Northern coast of Haiti back to Port Au Prince only to turn right around and make the trip by car into the Artibonite Valley where cholera first appeared in Haiti. The first stop on their trip was to Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS), a long-standing partner of Project HOPE’s since the January earthquake.<br /><br />Since the earthquake Project HOPE has supplied volunteer doctors, nurses and physical therapists to HAS to support the Haitian staff there. In the wake of the earthquake and now with the cholera epidemic, like many other hospitals in Haiti, HAS has seen their census rise requiring an augmentation of staff. The team was met by nurse<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhdTiyoUueGBJEdjiz-nmvKGpHPmi_bmOXKUZ1nw7KUIpW_GTVuF44cge-89sgDXGinMIT3t5J6zh9P0qmAei2ZyR4upvkH3T3F_0nGlGB10Aaxomv7hZtXzIUDVnW26rSQZcWhXu7BuY/s1600/DSC00508.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 202px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545715216080112866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhdTiyoUueGBJEdjiz-nmvKGpHPmi_bmOXKUZ1nw7KUIpW_GTVuF44cge-89sgDXGinMIT3t5J6zh9P0qmAei2ZyR4upvkH3T3F_0nGlGB10Aaxomv7hZtXzIUDVnW26rSQZcWhXu7BuY/s320/DSC00508.jpg" /></a> Jill Caporiccio, a long-term HOPE volunteer now working at HAS from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mrs. LeGrand Mellon and other staff. The team spent the day touring the facilities at HAS and assessing their cholera ward. In contrast to some of the other sites visited by the team the cholera ward at HAS was well staffed, seemed to have a good supply of required cholera related items due to a recent resupply by Project HOPE, and seemed to have good systems in place to handle their cholera census. The ICDDR,B team was able to collect some cholera samples, which will be added to the cholera samples they procured at other sites and will be sent back to the national lab in Port Au Prince for culture and sensitivity.<br /><br />While at HAS it was suggested by local staff that the team go a short distance down the road to the town of Verettes where there is another cholera treatment center (CTC) being run by International Medical Corps (IMC). There the team was able to collect more samples to add to their database of samples to go to the national lab. While at the IMC CTC the ICDDR,B team nurses were able to do some bedside hands-on training for the nurses on the ward imparting important information about the appropriate triage and treatment of the most fragile of cholera patients. The team has found this mode of training, the hands on at the bedside approach, is the most powerful of training tools. One they hope to help replicate at numerous levels in Haiti both at the institutional level and at the academic level having it added to nursing and medical curriculum.<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s1600/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542744678732666242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s200/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg" /></a>Photos and story submitted by HOPE volunteer, Carrie Alexander, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins MPH student.</em><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Construction of Rehab Buildings Brings Work, Comfort and HOPE<br /><br /></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsNghKrEmqcLJlSwgxu0qmZnACZct3vEMAn32pSXGOzrqoreHlFPhmWIzIyEIZbSAJVMX90F2AGzk9XlIavdFZke_HeC9qYGLMIM43pkZbncIXBpua1qoiPi-1IZME-dH350Gpe63ARMB/s1600/DSC_3337.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545721371239688850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsNghKrEmqcLJlSwgxu0qmZnACZct3vEMAn32pSXGOzrqoreHlFPhmWIzIyEIZbSAJVMX90F2AGzk9XlIavdFZke_HeC9qYGLMIM43pkZbncIXBpua1qoiPi-1IZME-dH350Gpe63ARMB/s320/DSC_3337.JPG" /></a>While reports of post-election frustrations and violence fill the news, Project HOPE continues to build a Rehabilitation Center in southern Haiti. U.S. volunteers are training Haitians to construct the modular buildings to help build local skills and capacity and provide needed income as the buildings go up. Local residents gather daily to see the walls rise on the three buildings that will provide needed rehabilitation services over the coming months and years.<br /><br />Eddy, 33, and a construction trainee, says this is the first time he has worked with prefabricated, foam core materials. He appreciates the opportunity to develop new skills. "I love it. I want to put all my strength into learning this new approach to building."<br /><br />He adds, "Even though I was not physically harmed in the earthquake, I was harmed emotionally. Now when I walk into a building I automatically go to the corner. I like the idea of this type of building because I feel safe." He also points out that when the people stay at the Center in short-term housing while being fitted for prosthetics, they will feel safe and not be afraid of another collapse.<br /><br />This fear of concrete structures, and a need for rapid construction, prompted HOPE to choose the modular design for the Rehab Center which will include a clinic, a dormitory building for patients and a housing building for volunteers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kc4-5Q0KEYMkAwIIPkF_Ztt5FZpap8vr0W1yPJOAKaPTOqFG1k99kPKzJzhjuawKVLMQxOyfaX3TFT2T-9zgON4ob_M6ZJ_c8QKt-8Zvq62AsoyHJMbHG-lwpwMz9cw9YmXLNDcY7QHW/s1600/DSC_3122.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545721365169717378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kc4-5Q0KEYMkAwIIPkF_Ztt5FZpap8vr0W1yPJOAKaPTOqFG1k99kPKzJzhjuawKVLMQxOyfaX3TFT2T-9zgON4ob_M6ZJ_c8QKt-8Zvq62AsoyHJMbHG-lwpwMz9cw9YmXLNDcY7QHW/s320/DSC_3122.JPG" /></a>Near the Rehab Center is a camp of people living in tents. One million people lost their homes in the earthquake. The camp school is run by a teacher who is an amputee. The school has no table for children to do their work; instead they lean on seat chairs to write their lessons. Mike, the lead builder, made a table for the school. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4gq3FK0nqWpvcKlUR79p_JGTKeIYxSJyVX3WGzfKmHNJW4M93ZTZCk5H0m0QoQ81wfQatFUYuXJpbPxQGgfPglGrOtMfSsLiXlEj8ec-WupM3l15VUyUmSKlUOf_phlespvi3mTq2Uuy/s1600/DSC_3544.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545721367964517106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4gq3FK0nqWpvcKlUR79p_JGTKeIYxSJyVX3WGzfKmHNJW4M93ZTZCk5H0m0QoQ81wfQatFUYuXJpbPxQGgfPglGrOtMfSsLiXlEj8ec-WupM3l15VUyUmSKlUOf_phlespvi3mTq2Uuy/s320/DSC_3544.JPG" /></a>The kids and moms cheered when he was finished. Now they have a place to do their school work– and to eat their lunch.<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s1600/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544970035939290914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s200/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg" /></a>Report and photos by Bonnie Hudlet, HOPE photographer.</em><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b">Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-82575505088523698942010-12-01T08:48:00.000-05:002010-12-01T10:08:19.340-05:00World AIDS Day China<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrtvfE5iwZJQOhxPLsR7rbR7fgOXoCgefVia8Tj05vIlEW-KSjmnjQ_-W3n9BLRUIMXAdMv8dDbRh9G8AdzuV3F0BhspEg8Gv6ac1newyJu3eft7lOIHARYOhVZNF9qUJhTTnU1PAr_br/s1600/pi_1_bg.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 92px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 76px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545730529996928338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrtvfE5iwZJQOhxPLsR7rbR7fgOXoCgefVia8Tj05vIlEW-KSjmnjQ_-W3n9BLRUIMXAdMv8dDbRh9G8AdzuV3F0BhspEg8Gv6ac1newyJu3eft7lOIHARYOhVZNF9qUJhTTnU1PAr_br/s320/pi_1_bg.png" /></a>Many advances in medicine to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide and to improve care to patients have been made over the past several years. However, there is still more work to be done.<br /><br />On<a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org/"> World AIDS Day</a>, I’m reminded of that work as I read the headline of the Shanghai Daily: “AIDS kills 68,000 in China in just a year.” The loss of life and suffering caused by HIV/AIDS is sobering and regrettable.<br /><br />However, while in China this week, I am reminded of the work<a href="http://www.projecthope.org/"> Project HOPE </a>has performed in this country with the support of global companies such as Abbott, Pfizer and others to help people with HIV/AIDS.<br /><br />During 2002 in Central China, improper plasma donation transmitted HIV to more than 250,000 rural farmers. With the assistance of our corporate partners and the leadership of <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-11/09/content_8931881.htm">China’s leading HIV/AIDS expert, Dr. Gui Xi’en</a>, Project HOPE launched a training program in Hubei Province to introduce antiretrovirals as part of the treatment regimen.<br /><br />Project HOPE trained 78 “master” trainers who then trained more than 8,700 doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians on how to incorporate the antiretrovirals into patient care.<br /><br />The training was invaluable and lifesaving. Between 2002 and 2006, deaths among the HIV patients in Hubei Province dropped 72 percent. Read More from <em><a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/4/1140?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=hubei&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT">Health Affairs</a>.</em><br /><br />Innovative approaches like Project HOPE initiated in China, combined with the tremendous work of our NGO colleagues and continued advances in medicine will make a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS.<br /><br /><em>Story by Rand Walton, HOPE's Director of Strategic Communications, now in China for the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_22_10">groundbreaking of the new Oncology Tower </a>at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-59793462906541866612010-11-30T09:00:00.006-05:002010-11-30T09:30:35.552-05:00"Another Haiti is Possible"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEOaD21ZNeOJ2Yh7tMuE2uIa8gi1Sxlx1phgTCv3QHOXOKLKwlDdg-3eQVpfVVJfzt49Elg9DBJg_NKNDiKhMMtTPXHoRgH5VSBZHEijsU-bJ7uqSEf_Vz47PLDmIiDOjHAplUFQdUedeA/s1600/DSC_3068.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545348575966233458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEOaD21ZNeOJ2Yh7tMuE2uIa8gi1Sxlx1phgTCv3QHOXOKLKwlDdg-3eQVpfVVJfzt49Elg9DBJg_NKNDiKhMMtTPXHoRgH5VSBZHEijsU-bJ7uqSEf_Vz47PLDmIiDOjHAplUFQdUedeA/s320/DSC_3068.JPG" /></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span></strong>oday the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>and <a href="http://www.thehumanitariannetwork.org/">The Humanitarian Network </a>team began putting together the dorm building that will house volunteers who come to Haiti to help with HOPE’s physical rehabilitation program. The building is going up next to a small tent “town.”<br /><br />I had the opportunity to speak to Joseph Charles, 21, a Haitian who has been working on the building site as an interpreter and site manager. I asked Joseph what it has meant to him to work on this project.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_4HDCmabPbHTQDwZsBygnsEvvDtgg89FaJ7ksmsvP1Jd__oMUsBfNJVDS8G4Wr3LlImj4POAvczaA6uS6KsAk2gYicj5f7mOnutKJ9dJSQi6K5ASRoW2YDdkFWYSktwt7UbM7XqrtC4l/s1600/DSC_3297.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545348580473237602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_4HDCmabPbHTQDwZsBygnsEvvDtgg89FaJ7ksmsvP1Jd__oMUsBfNJVDS8G4Wr3LlImj4POAvczaA6uS6KsAk2gYicj5f7mOnutKJ9dJSQi6K5ASRoW2YDdkFWYSktwt7UbM7XqrtC4l/s320/DSC_3297.JPG" /></a>“I can't wait to get up in the morning to get to the site,” he told me. “Sometimes I wake up at midnight and look at the clock wishing it was time to start working.”<br /><br />Working on the building team is helping him see a path to Haiti’s recovery. “I realize that you [Mike, Ron, Bonnie] really, really care about what you are doing. Most NGOs just come and spend money, but not work on projects,” he says. “Maybe you are all sons of God. You are all blessed and you do things differently. I keep thinking about [how you make] every detail very important. It is very rare to find people like this and I will do my best to be part of the team.”<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrTJ0o0egJoLiDA4hyphenhyphenSVSJxFG5KOrx9IcztTfBpRlflT2PFcl2n8zWLkUbbBA4zs2lnd5qF-14N9wQkZrohQMeWdwejwNojpiqHxNfaKtxBxCEke4NQOx8TpOkLVbv-VgVDuC2EjuA9p42/s1600/DSC_2323.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545348577388658978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrTJ0o0egJoLiDA4hyphenhyphenSVSJxFG5KOrx9IcztTfBpRlflT2PFcl2n8zWLkUbbBA4zs2lnd5qF-14N9wQkZrohQMeWdwejwNojpiqHxNfaKtxBxCEke4NQOx8TpOkLVbv-VgVDuC2EjuA9p42/s320/DSC_2323.jpg" /></a>You see, Joseph wants to make a difference in his native land. “I want to help as much as possible to make a new Haiti,” he says. With a lot of hard work, and a little help from others, Joseph is confident, “another Haiti is possible.”<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s1600/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544970035939290914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s200/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg" /></a>Story and photos by Bonnie Hudlet, HOPE photographer.</em><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div></div></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-71221484763803401672010-11-30T08:31:00.000-05:002010-11-30T09:51:13.077-05:00Groundbreaking for Pediatric Oncology Tower<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4otkupV03ChNdRPAu9D94jOKJf3DAPTcp1hFPl1kfu0kGq9xkXGRn1qbEKte_GSl_Qipr5JwU-MKR7jdBOomtdAnTPqylbzV3vilFLWmFMULHvXehwneR8AbJivQpTD2Sc47XkGOE_FL/s1600/IMG_2501.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545354727922529474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4otkupV03ChNdRPAu9D94jOKJf3DAPTcp1hFPl1kfu0kGq9xkXGRn1qbEKte_GSl_Qipr5JwU-MKR7jdBOomtdAnTPqylbzV3vilFLWmFMULHvXehwneR8AbJivQpTD2Sc47XkGOE_FL/s320/IMG_2501.JPG" /></a>Rain could not dampen the spirits of the hundreds who gathered today at Shanghai Children’s Medical Center to witness the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_22_10">ground breaking for a new 148-bed Oncology Tower</a>.<br /><br />The lifesaving care and resources the new tower will bring are greatly needed. Last year, the doctors and nurses at Shanghai Children’s Medical Center admitted and cared for more than 2,400 children with cancer. In addition, another 21,285 children with cancer were treated through the hospital on an outpatient basis.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissan5rdTGuo6WrEgvzK4LesRLwPzxXMJFkW-O6zsCJeKeEuHgkmQCq05l3MJXNUd_uSK6eQElZ8xi025V1ysZB6KK7wlAprvAPZc9h42uRINJ8DjdsPIUCnobL-gXFfMVCshsboijyNyT/s1600/IMG_2499.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545354719993888066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissan5rdTGuo6WrEgvzK4LesRLwPzxXMJFkW-O6zsCJeKeEuHgkmQCq05l3MJXNUd_uSK6eQElZ8xi025V1ysZB6KK7wlAprvAPZc9h42uRINJ8DjdsPIUCnobL-gXFfMVCshsboijyNyT/s320/IMG_2499.JPG" /></a>The new seven-story Oncology Tower more than doubles the number of beds the Medical Center currently dedicates to cancer patients. Also, the new tower, which will be completed by 2012, will house research facilities to investigate new treatments and processes for improving care to children.<br /><br />And thanks to a $1 million grant from <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>partner Hospira, health professional training and the development of a palliative care program will begin immediately. A relatively new concept in China, palliative care will bring much needed physical and emotional support to children and their families addressing the tough challenges associated with cancer and its treatments.<br /><br />Stuart Myers, Senior Vice President for Global Health at Project HOPE, said it best, “Despite the rain today, this is a bright day for the children of China.”<br /><br /><br /><div><em>Story and photos by Rand Walton, HOPE's Director of Strategic Communications, now in China for the groundbreaking of the new Oncology Tower at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-51243567999593231132010-11-29T08:32:00.017-05:002010-11-29T09:15:14.053-05:00Life, Death, Education and Thanksgiving in Haiti<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Team Saves More Lives, Witnesses Death and Provides Lifesaving Education </span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKgoC0e7dWYk5Z4AU1GbyxdRdQIcHQ8J5weYgagfm-qsDmr77ldvWRJvFKRpgPy7if5Hv6mmxiTv1CjkgOA1ZOmf2zDChsdjr7eAsabbdPDgJ_BACo8rQ246NkQrjEnVELZMrfWi8kYwb/s1600/DSC01139.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544965126087944114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKgoC0e7dWYk5Z4AU1GbyxdRdQIcHQ8J5weYgagfm-qsDmr77ldvWRJvFKRpgPy7if5Hv6mmxiTv1CjkgOA1ZOmf2zDChsdjr7eAsabbdPDgJ_BACo8rQ246NkQrjEnVELZMrfWi8kYwb/s320/DSC01139.jpg" /></a>The <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_16_10"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">ICDDR</span>,B</a> and <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>team spent a long evening and into the night helping the local Haitian staff here in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Milot</span> care for the most critically ill cholera patients. Late in the evening the team was called to the cholera unit to help start an IV on a young child and they were successful. While there on the unit they did rounds on some of other critically ill patients only to realize an older gentleman had died due to cholera complications just prior to their arrival. Another patient while being rapidly <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">rehydrated</span> was <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MKvO3Z477GpSRWuBZ3tb4sAp30wbCfCI5J99xneV7S5xy4K8jPr5gfjNyfqQL7dXBA3ge9d1eBC2uWTAbJDoF8l1FZvSpt4QmrfARQZVzrW2klq9ppuO1d-6-b1EO7xvZJO6ss8zFalu/s1600/DSC01142.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544965138365778306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4MKvO3Z477GpSRWuBZ3tb4sAp30wbCfCI5J99xneV7S5xy4K8jPr5gfjNyfqQL7dXBA3ge9d1eBC2uWTAbJDoF8l1FZvSpt4QmrfARQZVzrW2klq9ppuO1d-6-b1EO7xvZJO6ss8zFalu/s320/DSC01142.jpg" /></a>diagnosed as having complications due to hypoglycemia. The team flew into action. Another American nurse volunteering here at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hôpital</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sacre</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coeur</span> was able to find a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">glucometer</span> to test the blood and indeed the patient was severely hypoglycemic. One of the nurses from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">ICDDR</span>.B team, Catherine Costa <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">BSN</span>, MPH, had thought to bring dextrose solution with her on the long journey from Bangladesh – a precious resource here in Haiti. She was able to infuse this life saving treatment and the patient is now doing well. One of the other patients the team intervened with was not so lucky and died early the following morning.<br /><br />After this long evening of hands on care the team split into three groups. One group went a short distance to Cap <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Haitien</span> to meet with the medical director there. Another group went to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hôpital</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sacre</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coeur</span> to help with ten recent cholera admissions to the hospital. And yet another went to a nearby church to do a training session with several local schools.<br /><br />The new admissions at the hospital included ten developmentally disabled children and one disabled adult from the Missionaries of the Poor orphanage and home in Cap <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Haitien</span>. The Missionaries of the Poor is a Catholic organization that runs homes throughout the world for the poor and for orphaned disabled children, adults and the elderly. Brother Henry, one of the brothers from the Missionaries of the Poor who had accompanied the sick children from the orphanage was able to have a portion of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">ICDDR</span>,B team visit the orphanage to try to diagnose the source of the cholera outbreak. One of the critically ill children from the home who had been suffering from cholera related diarrhea for just three hours came into the cholera ward at the brink of death. IV lines were started and the life saving IV solution was pushed by force into the young girl’s IV line. She became pulse-less and was not breathing. Chest compressions were started but to no avail she was too far along in the cholera cycle and died there in the unit. An all too common outcome for the poorest of Haitians who lack quick access to much needed care.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbMYAHFmtgtup8RB8imHnfkgcji4rWzZ8vGjyUXbMYI4b0Eai9wBEgCYbyNvyf_VSUX5qoFR5ZCiIY09wmgSTXQR27y2J5jMkizk8MeomDda8hn7FOB6-odpMi1Nh8fU7pYXQQvTiv1xT/s1600/DSC01133.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544965121501229538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbMYAHFmtgtup8RB8imHnfkgcji4rWzZ8vGjyUXbMYI4b0Eai9wBEgCYbyNvyf_VSUX5qoFR5ZCiIY09wmgSTXQR27y2J5jMkizk8MeomDda8hn7FOB6-odpMi1Nh8fU7pYXQQvTiv1xT/s320/DSC01133.jpg" /></a>The team responsible for the training of local school children had an audience of 170 students ranging in age from 4<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> grade to 11<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> grade. They were all looking sharp in their colorful Haitian school uniforms, a hallmark of Haitian school children. They were engaging and interested in the discussion. Of all of the audiences thus far the students, particularly the high school students, asked some insightful and touch questions. Reaching this audience is all too important as these children return home from school to share the messages about the prevention and treatment of cholera to their friends, families and communities. Spreading the word is an important piece of the overall cholera education plan the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">ICDDR</span>,B came here to implement.<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s1600/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542744678732666242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s200/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg" /></a>Photos and story submitted by HOPE volunteer, Carrie Alexander, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins MPH student.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Rehab Building Continues to Progress as Volunteers Experience Thanksgiving in Haiti</span></strong><br /><br />The team got in later than usual today, and we didn't have much of a meal ready, so Ron White, Managing Director, <a href="http://www.thehumanitariannetwork.org/">The Humanitarian Network</a>, broke out the freeze-dried backpacking stuff and it was a feast!<br /><br />Everyone should spend at least one Thanksgiving helping others... Instead of Thanksgiving football, I got to play soccer in the parking lot with a few kids. No ball, but a water bottle instead. Sigh.<br /><br />Buildings are coming along slower than we would like to see. Haitians do like to discuss every point, so it takes longer. When something isn't working quite right, they all have to throw in their ideas. It is kind of fun to watch. Enjoy these photos in and around the rehab building site on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Thanksgiving</span> Day.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLg1oJsNnspzmxs6b1VPXnsLA3Az7M3dFaq76ZcKhqoZwtEWjkl8cY6sjCUm2UUpPIRW50uPzmsJvBcvMnqVvG_3lckTQmObbAOv8NfQiAS_s23hDoupahZLJx45ynLH_N5afyFo0gS0g/s1600/DSC_2684.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544974055864392434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLg1oJsNnspzmxs6b1VPXnsLA3Az7M3dFaq76ZcKhqoZwtEWjkl8cY6sjCUm2UUpPIRW50uPzmsJvBcvMnqVvG_3lckTQmObbAOv8NfQiAS_s23hDoupahZLJx45ynLH_N5afyFo0gS0g/s400/DSC_2684.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcY7JJzZUs6vYgQSf8zTMushXP3u-UK4nZi4Tl1O9wq2XkJZJIz-e7juMC4hHdwCVuYi5UvqR8L0UY0h9DsEP6dAXAdeQMxx5hJFo_aG6rVC8MNcns52M18-5Kp_l6OBN_IaAEY7nHtwIL/s1600/DSC_2423.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544974015365100018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOP25SZBSzhL2nklkfuFzO0RPY1TzbG6jFevtj629fZXdaxyhAhBjwZgcFXuzaXckJu9msBaVurcPQxvtK8F2pVd97m73WbhF_8r_ATO5FUxSfkHSkI-PtvCq_JZtbhM8v-lSBpTFRM9HH/s400/DSC_2358.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9s_T5GT5uk6XXeTU7g7FJR-kXxwwxocDrnSyyJZfkpQLP0TMMVYgYdTjbNW2efO09XG1O9bU8N1Gx7CZDOf5SXVWQFoKjdanyoD2j6BZhyaFBdRPwlbA850Jf-arEF-xTV_msxHSKv_1T/s1600/DSC_1939.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544974006601165762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9s_T5GT5uk6XXeTU7g7FJR-kXxwwxocDrnSyyJZfkpQLP0TMMVYgYdTjbNW2efO09XG1O9bU8N1Gx7CZDOf5SXVWQFoKjdanyoD2j6BZhyaFBdRPwlbA850Jf-arEF-xTV_msxHSKv_1T/s400/DSC_1939.JPG" /></a><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s1600/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544970035939290914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8p31adjld8AWuPIZ4Ivne0sS3g36CoCbVvpJEBRyUFaliJpI2uOUvtfX4JDD8jBpKbZOqd_6QO_S9-D1lOCBkHpC_1b0YTgkskrxkmD8bcqF-viCm3SCyHtcvoaFfNtDx2_5HCkOev3m/s200/Bonnie-Hudlet.jpg" /></a>Story and photos by Bonnie <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hudlet</span>, HOPE photographer.</em><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti"><strong>Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong></div></strong><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">HOPE's</span> Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div></strong><br /><strong><strong></strong></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-85907671697996609612010-11-29T07:25:00.000-05:002010-11-29T09:37:34.964-05:00Oncology Tower Groundbreaking in China<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96mGdfrlp7xBje3LWlQx3Z6I_iR004V4WiIVOGPYsqYzhStOxD7qlLgiCALNtE4hfvl8T8J77TW8G4_U814QPVqRl-G92g8hCk2R2fmMVBKH4PdEFo_F2PNH5s_Ium9ugGFEDbWzgQeYL/s1600/_DSC8739.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544979236068689362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96mGdfrlp7xBje3LWlQx3Z6I_iR004V4WiIVOGPYsqYzhStOxD7qlLgiCALNtE4hfvl8T8J77TW8G4_U814QPVqRl-G92g8hCk2R2fmMVBKH4PdEFo_F2PNH5s_Ium9ugGFEDbWzgQeYL/s320/_DSC8739.JPG" /></a>It is about the children.<br /><div><br />Today, there are more than 300 million children in China. Sadly, experts estimate that more than 45,000 children in China are diagnosed with cancer each year. At this rate, there are simply not enough resources on hand in China to meet the physical and emotional needs of children, and their families, suffering with cancer.</div><br /><div>Fortunately, <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>and long-time partner, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, as well as <a href="http://www.hospira.com/default.aspx">Hospira</a>, a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, have the children’s best interests at heart. </div><div><br />Tomorrow, the three partners, the Shanghai City Government and other Chinese health institutions will break ground on a new Oncology Tower at the <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_latest_Shanghai_Childrens_Medical_Center">Shanghai Children’s Medical Center</a>. The new tower will deliver many of the technologies, services and health professionals required to address this serious situation.</div><div><br />Just as Project HOPE assembled the right mix of dedicated volunteer doctors, nurses and corporate partners to establish and develop the world’s leading hospital in pediatric cardiac surgery (surgeons at SCMC performed more than 3,000 open-heart surgeries on children last year), HOPE and partners plan and expect to do the same to address childhood cancer in China.<br />The Shanghai Children’s Medical Center is already a leader in China in the care of children with cancer. More than 15,000 children went to the Medical Center for cancer treatment last year.</div><div></div><br /><div>The new Oncology Tower will expand the Medical Center’s capabilities to meet the growing demand for care. </div><div><br />It is always about the children. I am proud of Project HOPE’s commitment to children around the world.<br /></div><div> </div><div>And while you cannot be with me tomorrow for the ground breaking in Shanghai, I will share with you the events of the day and give you an insider’s look into the much-needed Oncology Tower. </div><div></div><br /><div><em>Story by Rand Walton, HOPE's Director of Strategic Communications, now in China for the groundbreaking of the new Oncology Tower at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-54145179367479730332010-11-23T13:48:00.014-05:002010-11-23T15:22:30.337-05:00Volunteers Continue Cholera Education As New Clinic Building Nears Completion<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cholera: A Disease of Contrasts</span></strong><br /><br />When the combined <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_16_10">ICDDR,B</a> and <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE</a> team received word late Saturday evening that the airport in Cap Haitien, one of Haiti’s Northern coastal towns hardest hit by cholera, had reopened after it had been closed due to riots, they drove through the night back to Port Au Prince to catch the first morning flight to Cap Haitian. At 6:00 am Sunday morning, the team departed for Cap Haitien.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WQvnnV_4q2-S7B-RTJSZTflAFDmsvrmAz6iijErG92_Y_o_oYG02meX7aSW23V4HOGaslXs9VqqJBhc-qQ-euVrAeAZJ3RIxD3xj3D2bejfiroYTzExKSZDYUDM548UywllmuhhIKo0W/s1600/DSCN0207.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 226px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542820700090560754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WQvnnV_4q2-S7B-RTJSZTflAFDmsvrmAz6iijErG92_Y_o_oYG02meX7aSW23V4HOGaslXs9VqqJBhc-qQ-euVrAeAZJ3RIxD3xj3D2bejfiroYTzExKSZDYUDM548UywllmuhhIKo0W/s320/DSCN0207.jpg" /></a>Upon arrival they moved due south to Hôpital Sacre Coeur (HSC) in Milot where many cholera patients have sought treatment. Here, in addition to training and assessment, one of the ICDDR,B’s two microbiologists, Dr. Zahid Hayat Mahmud, will collect samples from patients to test for culture and sensitivity to see which antibiotic the cholera bacteria in this region is sensitive to. The cholera bacteria can have different sensitivities to different antibiotics regionally in the same outbreak, necessitating the need to take several samples in all regions where outbreaks of cholera have occurred. These samples will be sent back to the National Lab in Port Au Prince where ICDDR,B team member and microbiologist Dr. Sirajul Islam is standing by to test the samples. Dr. Mahmud and other team members have reported that in their home country of Bangladesh they see more than 30,000 cholera patients a month and can treat as many as 1,000 per day. They have two cholera epidemics per year, pre monsoon and post monsoon, giving them the hands-on practical experience and knowledge base it requires to help Haiti learn about cholera.<br /><br />HSC in Milot has seen more than 220 cholera patients and 12 cholera related deaths. On the first day of training a comprehensive plan was put in place to reach staff at all levels of the hospital from cleaning staff and security personnel to sanitation workers and clinical staff. Three classes took place at the hospital training over 150 personnel and an additional class took place at a church to more than 130 members of a local Haitian youth group and congregants.<br /><br />HSC and their treatment of cholera patients is in stark contrast to the hospital the team had visited two days prior in Les Cayes. In Les Cayes fear of contracting cholera kept some local staff from touching or even come near cholera patients. In addition, lack of staffing and resources left their system poorly organized to be able to appropriately manage the numbers of cholera patients they were being asked to treat.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioRONd3ig2-At5SgtZfsH1210ZMXepdtvQM7_8AQgZToTU_AOITO7kfnqn-E8DaT2263KAoN0jKr6DNY_Z_ua4nAy0Q2cl8-4nZV4ZZdLcQcj7TWqSJLrBjn_-_KtnSZ4ACMc47gEN5UX/s1600/DSCN0216.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 312px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542820716625324226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioRONd3ig2-At5SgtZfsH1210ZMXepdtvQM7_8AQgZToTU_AOITO7kfnqn-E8DaT2263KAoN0jKr6DNY_Z_ua4nAy0Q2cl8-4nZV4ZZdLcQcj7TWqSJLrBjn_-_KtnSZ4ACMc47gEN5UX/s320/DSCN0216.jpg" /></a>Although HSC is also burdened by supply issues they are much better staffed and have the resources to organize a system wide plan. The fear of cholera here has taken on a different form. Staff is digging in, treating and touching their patients, but they have adopted habits that will use valuable fiscal resources such as donning masks, full gowns, rubber boots and surgical hats. These habits are some of the things that the team hopes they can change with the education and training they have to offer. Cholera is a disease that can only be contracted through contaminated water or food. Trying to dispel the myths about contracting cholera from all sorts of other means is proving harder than the team had thought. This being Haiti’s first ever cholera outbreak, it is no wonder there is so much fear and misunderstanding and for this reason the team is hoping a little education goes a long way.<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s1600/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542744678732666242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s200/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg" /></a>Photos and story submitted by HOPE volunteer, Carrie Alexander, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins MPH student.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Buildings Go Up and HOPE Grows</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarYBPiuGho6nWgHxLqj9s_gwG7l135R8ZhdyAkgN6ZCQJBqf3yGeK5C1O54EugXfgAgSnDs0tnoir3sKlZ6Uovj8qqKtN7RzMpQbdirawbyIonSe_l7GuRwNvCAqR26zR08bVc3nQdgxh/s1600/DSC_1344.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542820686216065250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarYBPiuGho6nWgHxLqj9s_gwG7l135R8ZhdyAkgN6ZCQJBqf3yGeK5C1O54EugXfgAgSnDs0tnoir3sKlZ6Uovj8qqKtN7RzMpQbdirawbyIonSe_l7GuRwNvCAqR26zR08bVc3nQdgxh/s320/DSC_1344.JPG" /></a>Today the HOPE team continued to develop. The roof on the clinic building is almost finished and we will put the metal on it tomorrow. We will also have another team start on building 2, the ward.<br /><br />Many people visit the site each day and watch and ask questions. Most know someone who need the services and treatment that Project HOPE and its partners will provide here.<br /><br />The local Haitian team members are most interesting. All just want an opportunity to help rebuild Haiti and to help someone, so we are looking for ways to assist them.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzW4S3WKZR8Bole244IG3Ci_g7ydUfWUYdXIn7Pxyw8JNXRFKXe4nmToEMF4qR2iawXBewawFm_W7wziTjIuzwbaHFjnPyciN1BXZjrPaUsqNNABxIIE8z_xOdpjfcZgqxhKSnOPGUYUPq/s1600/Joseph+Charles%252C+the+translator%252C+keeps+track+of+the+hours+the+men+work+on+the+site..JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542820669971515746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzW4S3WKZR8Bole244IG3Ci_g7ydUfWUYdXIn7Pxyw8JNXRFKXe4nmToEMF4qR2iawXBewawFm_W7wziTjIuzwbaHFjnPyciN1BXZjrPaUsqNNABxIIE8z_xOdpjfcZgqxhKSnOPGUYUPq/s320/Joseph+Charles%252C+the+translator%252C+keeps+track+of+the+hours+the+men+work+on+the+site..JPG" /></a>We are helping our two interpreters set up a new business to work with NGOs and companies that need their language skills and they already have their first client...a company building 2400 homes.<br /><br />Both the interpreters were volunteers at the Adventist Hospital in Diquini for several months after the earthquake. They helped volunteer doctors and nurses communicate and calm those needing surgery. They spent many hours in the operating room and remember many of those that are coming back to the hospital to receive treatment.<br /><br />We also have found possible opportunities for the local people helping on the team to continue working once our three buildings are complete building houses. We will also use the workers we have trained on future clinics.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Ajjhd6A3Yx99V7d5YJG7uOhsboGfDoBN9QYRxhBw9a86fe3IdyLbP_vVfPWiJPhX_fcpByyEeNVW5cDWcXRRni4JHG4EUBESFOkxdN_7I7C7Dsbk11mmF0F89xHt_wOvcMAm_k6FrzPh/s1600/18-year-old+who+wants+to+be+a+civil+engineer.jpg"></a>Then there is Samuel, a mechanical engineer by degree and a maintenance person at the hospital. He has become a great asset. He helps with the construction coordination and he lets us use some of his tools, such as much need drill bits.<br /><br />We are looking for ways for him to use his degree and work in some of the many communities being rebuilt.<br /><br />These are great people who care...and who want to really make a difference in the lives of their fellow countrymen. It is a wonderful to be associated and part of the HOPE team.<br /><br /><br /><em>Story by Ron White, Managing Director, <a href="http://www.thehumanitariannetwork.org/">The Humanitarian Network</a>. Photos by Bonnie Hudlet, HOPE photographer.<br /></em><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti"><strong>Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a><br /></div></strong></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-58282725950076366952010-11-22T09:26:00.031-05:002010-11-22T12:42:55.540-05:00Cholera Team Saves Lives, Rehab Facility Progresses and Critically Needed Medicines Delivered<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Cholera Team Saves Lives</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ6ZU-iz5qhvJLIFLHJNtD6LTTU7iBUZBLYoDUDP_1Y2zG279NBg12iWF9RtnY8SX0mkEIPhitSE9xUDhTvZ5_op4RVj9pTcmhjXgX6nSQtJuWKhIqoO6u1_igsMWh0frC2QvuXFSdNux/s1600/IMG00005-20101120-1106.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 240px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542413256981477122" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ6ZU-iz5qhvJLIFLHJNtD6LTTU7iBUZBLYoDUDP_1Y2zG279NBg12iWF9RtnY8SX0mkEIPhitSE9xUDhTvZ5_op4RVj9pTcmhjXgX6nSQtJuWKhIqoO6u1_igsMWh0frC2QvuXFSdNux/s320/IMG00005-20101120-1106.jpg" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us_press_releases_11_16_10">ICDDR,B team </a>in Les Cayes spent morning at the Immaculate Conception of Les Cayes Hospital. The team trained 37 nurses and two physicians, a standing room only event.<br /><br />The team later toured the hospital's cholera ward and resuscitated two patients in stage three of severe dehydration (no pulse, shallow respiration, and sunken eyes … no response to external stimuli.) They were within an hour of death. With consent of local staff, our team inserted an IV into the patient's collapsed veins and started a 3-liter bottle of Ringers lactate. Within minutes the patient revived and became responsive. In four hours, the patient was smiling and talking. Later a nonresponsive 3 year old was brought to the ward. Two IV attempts were unsuccessful because of severe dehydration; the third attempt was successful and within one hour, the patient was sitting up drinking Oral Rehydration Salts and laughing.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikl5vnbHqRMMja8kpu_RK7P1s8D9yFSfi1NYfKoWF3L953YbHBd3OAvGj2-D1ZoC6_BIgWyehUu4yC6Z1eQmlSBTU6ebfVF2P__eSom1k8_TVl2UDWrfixw8VyvIO6OIea-3uOL8o8S7R8/s1600/IMG00006-20101120-1132.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 240px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542413261639317346" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikl5vnbHqRMMja8kpu_RK7P1s8D9yFSfi1NYfKoWF3L953YbHBd3OAvGj2-D1ZoC6_BIgWyehUu4yC6Z1eQmlSBTU6ebfVF2P__eSom1k8_TVl2UDWrfixw8VyvIO6OIea-3uOL8o8S7R8/s320/IMG00006-20101120-1132.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We spent the remaining portion of day caring for patients and engaging in bedside hands-on training with local nurses. There's a lot to teach and the Haitians are eager to learn.<br /><br />The team is deploying to Cap Haitien on Sunday November 21 to continue training.<br /><br /><em>Story and photos by Fred Gerber, Project HOPE's Special Projects Director.</em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Rehab Facility Progresses</strong><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1A3FiZ3Nd_l0WNSAtKf-IFzd9zGVncqojLSN_LfQiT-Nz4gYp2TleCzAJCuGr5dON9HKBxii5J9ND-_EVG3Aa1mjueGZOf8soLQjZKE3hbdWZGjbPyAyquzCQvOcSykbk0vPBLfnJaqK-/s1600/DSC_0862.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 213px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542384316577581394" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1A3FiZ3Nd_l0WNSAtKf-IFzd9zGVncqojLSN_LfQiT-Nz4gYp2TleCzAJCuGr5dON9HKBxii5J9ND-_EVG3Aa1mjueGZOf8soLQjZKE3hbdWZGjbPyAyquzCQvOcSykbk0vPBLfnJaqK-/s320/DSC_0862.JPG" border="0" /></a>Shortly after the January earthquake, <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>sent a team of experts from Mass General Hospital to evaluate how to best contribute to rebuilding health capacity in Haiti. They advised us to focus on rehabilitation needs for survivors near the quake’s epicenter. Since then, HOPE has been working to build a comprehensive Rehabilitation Center at the Adventist Hospital (HAH), together with partners Christian Blind Mission and Prosthetika.<br /><br />Rehab activities have been going on for months without a dedicated space to offer services. HOPE now has a team of U.S. volunteers assembling three modular buildings at HAH – including a <a href="http://www.humanitarianbuilders.org/DIQUINI2440.htm">24 x 40 ft Rehab Center</a>, <a href="http://www.humanitarianbuilders.org/DIQUINI4.htm">housing for international medical volunteers and housing for patients being fitted for prosthetic limbs.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 213px; float: right; height: 320px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542384430791712562" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gV0-8saexqNfrHG5_V-s6l7Rw3bFjdkkWXPzsn6A-qiFndBrwLwyaeDJihRbpoaXoZjnkdI3PtoJwWz98xk5N9jz2VwrsoXyuggNOKgbXuw8K5P_vEAAKDiG88S4KLmkqT8KZDCdLChY/s320/DSC_1113.jpg" border="0" /></a>In coordination with our partner, <a href="http://www.thehumanitariannetwork.org/">Humanitarian Network (HN) </a>, the construction team is hiring local Haitians, teaching them how to assemble the structures. All local trainees will receive training certificates, providing short term income and, hopefully, longer term employment opportunities as rebuilding efforts grow.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYEU5MTih81BKV9pOL8ERKVEeFYiTGKT9F48YQOxNFTW7sRy5PaQsIcheQ62yt6LXNPqteToAta8ZBYvj9MSIbIqqxsSZdn0yAK6U5GkV076a9CkM_0eNg1tcisPhcs2KKDvAJlH0XvTs/s1600/DSC_0923.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 213px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542384399671519554" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYEU5MTih81BKV9pOL8ERKVEeFYiTGKT9F48YQOxNFTW7sRy5PaQsIcheQ62yt6LXNPqteToAta8ZBYvj9MSIbIqqxsSZdn0yAK6U5GkV076a9CkM_0eNg1tcisPhcs2KKDvAJlH0XvTs/s320/DSC_0923.JPG" border="0" /></a>From the first day containers of building materials arrived at the Hospital, area residents have come forth to help. A local French teacher is now serving as translator for the crew, as well as site administrator. Another man, at the hospital with his wife – an amputee receiving therapy – joined the construction crew. As HN leader Ron White reports, “we showed up and so did they – we share the same mission.”<br /><br /><em>Story by Courtney Guthreau, Project HOPE’s Director – Americas Region.<br />Photos by Bonnie Hudlet. </em><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">HOPE Delivers Critically Needed Medicines</span></strong><br /><br />It was quite a day. Project HOPE staff Doug Lane, Regional Logistics Manager and Charles Prospere, HOPE’s Haiti Representative, were able to obtain critically needed medicines and supplies from a local medical warehouse and get them delivered to Hôpital Albert Schweitzer where Project HOPE volunteers continue to care for Cholera patients. Check out the photos.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy8HOaZE1jgk9-jSf9NGAAIlXhAlxRSlbw_9VWphqpyWGQFmEWc0956OOdFuQF00lnWcSdF3LkDJsIEfwYN-l7uYdvdwSgJxk_t3OBXaY1pnTMSMkmuaKh2q9Z25df3k9KCxDQOH9pA3m/s1600/DSC_1039.JPG"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 213px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542418848864588786" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy8HOaZE1jgk9-jSf9NGAAIlXhAlxRSlbw_9VWphqpyWGQFmEWc0956OOdFuQF00lnWcSdF3LkDJsIEfwYN-l7uYdvdwSgJxk_t3OBXaY1pnTMSMkmuaKh2q9Z25df3k9KCxDQOH9pA3m/s320/DSC_1039.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDL48MHO1ZbKcWsem8_6UcWcWy-PP5piLthyphenhyphen7-qUwuy3i8MY0SCI4xCwzdwsmSDsIrDDpvP52qiHrfwkktNIBCu35dqSmUCliDQt0eihpZ0KN_pfS1M-eIrxatigtuk0p_SaQK-NcbCd2/s1600/DSC_1029.jpg"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 213px; display: block; height: 320px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542418834241790098" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDL48MHO1ZbKcWsem8_6UcWcWy-PP5piLthyphenhyphen7-qUwuy3i8MY0SCI4xCwzdwsmSDsIrDDpvP52qiHrfwkktNIBCu35dqSmUCliDQt0eihpZ0KN_pfS1M-eIrxatigtuk0p_SaQK-NcbCd2/s320/DSC_1029.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK47a7uVjbGefk_bCOGeb3MN14oSUZ6F-tIpqAwymxrTCpoXHPixuJGhyphenhyphenSYWFiHduaouR5MsITBOSphTz_h94fvq9ku80-utL05Q2eAIy7tES0kBLYrwqHuqmFsIRLCvBGT3XBanvbu5YN/s1600/DSC_1080.JPG"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 213px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542420421331068162" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK47a7uVjbGefk_bCOGeb3MN14oSUZ6F-tIpqAwymxrTCpoXHPixuJGhyphenhyphenSYWFiHduaouR5MsITBOSphTz_h94fvq9ku80-utL05Q2eAIy7tES0kBLYrwqHuqmFsIRLCvBGT3XBanvbu5YN/s320/DSC_1080.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><em>Photos by Bonnie Hudlet. </em><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></strong></div><strong></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-12105876404445921852010-11-19T09:54:00.022-05:002010-11-23T09:02:17.045-05:00HOPE Volunteers Provide Cholera Care, Education and Build Facilities for Rehab Program<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Project HOPE and ICDDR,B Team Begins Much Needed Cholera Education </span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o7Ieosgo0fFyXKN8D8BKDVQRgoQSlw_P9QwIpv13PuedI-3Gjsnfs2ThWFI6ZTRjL3L6NPQ0Mt854QSKCOrGkPjdDidvMmDAAyaTlOc0UZIRxEEM5NWUzdoPDFDklXqWzFVUa5o4Fr6o/s1600/DSC03728.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 261px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541277620638859890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o7Ieosgo0fFyXKN8D8BKDVQRgoQSlw_P9QwIpv13PuedI-3Gjsnfs2ThWFI6ZTRjL3L6NPQ0Mt854QSKCOrGkPjdDidvMmDAAyaTlOc0UZIRxEEM5NWUzdoPDFDklXqWzFVUa5o4Fr6o/s320/DSC03728.jpg" /></a>As the death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic surpasses 1,000 with more than 16,000 having been hospitalized, <a href="http://www.projecthope.oprg/">Project HOPE </a>welcomed the International Center for Diarrheal Disease and Research team from Bangladesh to Port Au Prince Haiti to help provide much needed cholera education (ICDDR,B). At the onset of the cholera outbreak Project HOPE sent a team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to Haiti to assess the situation and begin helping with patient treatment. Led by Dr. Larry Ronan, a HOPE volunteer and MGH physician, this team was able to coordinate and secure the participation of the ICDDR,B team who are experts in the field of cholera education, assessment, research and treatment.<br /><br />Project HOPE volunteers along with the ICDDR,B experts now form an eight member team consisting of two nursing officers, two clinical researchers, two physicians and two microbiologists. The team was split into two independently functioning four person teams to maximize the amount of assessment and training they could accomplish during their three week stay.<br /><br />The team’s original plan was to head North to Cap Haitien on the North coast of Haiti where the more than 1,500 patients have been hospitalized and 119 have died giving them the highest death rate (7.5%) of any region in Haiti. Due to violent protests and riots in Cap Haitien these plans had to be modified.<br /><br />One team stayed in Port Au Prince under the leadership of Project HOPE volunteers MG (Ret) Darrel Porr, M.D. and Carma Erickson-Hurt BSN, MSN to meet with government officials and public relations personnel. The other set out South to Jacmel on the Southern coast of Haiti to start training sessions with local medical staff and healthcare workers. While Jacmel thus far has been spared from the cholera outbreak local officials and medical staff recognized the need for training to prevent and potentially treat cholera should it arrive in their region.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1h08uk5CRtC23WJjl9tsGqYF35Xi6MPicXVrjA_ZKR4a5nOT1wMIuS9jFRtBDTOfH1qvou86wJyye9nUk25bYddbu6CCrp0_pXGUYZyjjhuNjxR5oAp6L362_HFiDyk_oMc4WjwbAbSA/s1600/DSC03725.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541277613992647986" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1h08uk5CRtC23WJjl9tsGqYF35Xi6MPicXVrjA_ZKR4a5nOT1wMIuS9jFRtBDTOfH1qvou86wJyye9nUk25bYddbu6CCrp0_pXGUYZyjjhuNjxR5oAp6L362_HFiDyk_oMc4WjwbAbSA/s320/DSC03725.jpg" /></a>On their first day of training in Jacmel, the team conducted three sessions training with a total of thirty-seven doctors, nurses and ancillary staff participating. Two of the sessions took place at Portal Leogane Clinic in Jacmel and one at Hospital Saint Michel. The team was well received and was able to dispel some of the common misconceptions about cholera that often prevent a cholera patient from getting proper treatment. Because this is Haiti’s first cholera outbreak in many years, there are many fears and anxieties about how cholera is spread and transmitted.<br /><br />The training sessions will go a long way towards getting Haiti’s local medical staff appropriately informed to diagnose and treat cholera patients and alleviate the continued spread of this easily treated but deadly disease.<br /><br /><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s1600/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542744678732666242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDNUr0JqOPxeOPOkj6OAr9ESLtBroSvVYXx4Kiog4iD6NUMjEW0oXoTayQXXCO6gQViGKhe1i3EfkGKjkAvpVIBa9ECTJCxkc9NKyScXmwJ1OAk0CUx2je9nX7hmcCplF3vgW8SZ9fcnD/s200/Carrie-Alexander-headshot.jpg" /></a>Photos and story submitted by HOPE volunteer, Carrie Alexander, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins MPH student.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">More on our work in Haiti.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Volunteers Continue Caring for Cholera Patients at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer </strong></span><br /><br />Six Project HOPE nurses arrived this week in Deschapelles, Haiti to continue work in the cholera ward at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. Haiti is experiencing a surge in cholera cases due to water contamination after the devastating earthquake last February.<br /><br />The Project HOPE nurses got right to work after a brief orientation to the hospital and cholera protocols. For the next three weeks, they will be working 24/7, providing much needed help to overworked Haitian professionals. At least two nurses will be on the ward at all times to start and monitor IVs and make sure that these desperately Ill patients get the oral rehydration fluids they need in order to fight this disease. Cholera patients require massive amounts of fluids and electrolytes because of the losses from diarrhea and vomiting. When they arrive at the hospital, they are evaluated for disease severity and assigned to one of four treatment protocols. Protocol 4 patients require up to seven liters of fluid in the first three hours of treatment. Challenges encountered by the nurses include putting IVs in severely dehydrated patients, working at night without adequate lighting, language barriers (translators are not always available), and of course keeping themselves hydrated in the hot climate.<br /><br />None of this seems to matter, as all are enthusiastic, hardworking, and just grateful for the opportunity to help the people of Haiti.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5ojhLCbbHhcnfcLZ9-HqyUK_8RJh1wONb8Md-jX25MCyHqqw1ifmISeLdAKw2W5IT4-ePGe3PZnSYwuEqIM87-t-U5wHszDjRaRuiUAhY3EYJnIfAawkSZsDUQgtAaEWzjsejsfyFUOY/s1600/cheryldobsonweb.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541276293953420034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5ojhLCbbHhcnfcLZ9-HqyUK_8RJh1wONb8Md-jX25MCyHqqw1ifmISeLdAKw2W5IT4-ePGe3PZnSYwuEqIM87-t-U5wHszDjRaRuiUAhY3EYJnIfAawkSZsDUQgtAaEWzjsejsfyFUOY/s400/cheryldobsonweb.jpg" /></a><em>Story submitted by Project HOPE volunteer Cherri Dobson, a critical care nurse from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California. Cherri is serving on her fourth mission for Project HOPE.<br /></em><br /><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">More on our work in Haiti.<br /><br /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Modular Structures Being Built for Rehab Facility</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DdvxeWvrdil7i4KKDzItxWFRT8F2D4DnRYthHX9LxzNfr8CkykJyf-lwc9XH2kZcxt-WL5-j-V6-63RsYELCHigUsunB_jJy5pIJT5P6YgThxQ42ZeFvwz9XR0P66HCpPUk4xDx91cuH/s1600/DSCN0007.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541277610441237266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DdvxeWvrdil7i4KKDzItxWFRT8F2D4DnRYthHX9LxzNfr8CkykJyf-lwc9XH2kZcxt-WL5-j-V6-63RsYELCHigUsunB_jJy5pIJT5P6YgThxQ42ZeFvwz9XR0P66HCpPUk4xDx91cuH/s320/DSCN0007.jpg" /></a>The three modular structures (<a href="http://www.humanitarianbuilders.org/DIQUINI2440.htm">24 x 40 clinic</a>, <a href="http://www.humanitarianbuilders.org/DIQUINI4.htm">28 x 20 dorm </a>for housing up to 12 volunteers, 28 x 20 patient ward for individuals awaiting treatment) are currently being installed on the campus of Adventist Hospital in Diquini. The structures will be used to support HOPE’s rehabilitative health program in Haiti to help those still recovering from the 2010 earthquake.<br /><br />HOPE’s work in connection with the installation of the modular units is being supported the <a href="http://www.thehumanitariannetwork.org/">Humanitarian Network</a>, the <a href="http://www.avonfoundation.org/">Avon Foundation for Women,</a> and other private donors.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti">Visit Our Web Site for More on Our Work in Haiti</a></strong></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti and Around the World Now</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-55041414214846566092010-11-18T09:08:00.005-05:002010-11-18T09:16:17.594-05:00Hola from the Americas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXj_9TJ1lAEwtYeHnkDOc-x6AjgEHS-oRERjm24qDKx6nCH0LaVXkyC0EFoj89SdIt6WCP0OsdmG4t3gXpzFwvmXsNEBWn3Ucoa1R4C9Vl6M10HKW4HW4VoUz9BwLofiyfNY0wVqPGhoQH/s1600/IMG_2051.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540893037526996146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXj_9TJ1lAEwtYeHnkDOc-x6AjgEHS-oRERjm24qDKx6nCH0LaVXkyC0EFoj89SdIt6WCP0OsdmG4t3gXpzFwvmXsNEBWn3Ucoa1R4C9Vl6M10HKW4HW4VoUz9BwLofiyfNY0wVqPGhoQH/s400/IMG_2051.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>staff from the Americas Region participated in their annual Leadership Conference last week in Mexico City. Technical sessions focused on improving programs and building staff skills. HOPE staff from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, Peru, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and the United States (New Mexico)were represented. Additional leadership conferences will be help for Project HOPE staff around the world in coming months. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-45250665168570135062010-11-17T11:30:00.008-05:002010-11-17T11:49:05.140-05:00Volunteers Complete Suriname Mission<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCxjU9xcSzOs15ozY5n8iajxZ56sG7_3vLm6kQNBxKOXBkSXt7TrM3VnqFOXXi1Hu11uT4S5fwdONCc2DiyuSAbSr_jEj8lYItP6FZgo-uBe6ceNXuWlKHak0my_cz-KJGNeIBmQChlt5/s1600/101027-N-1531D-077.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540561180228107298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCxjU9xcSzOs15ozY5n8iajxZ56sG7_3vLm6kQNBxKOXBkSXt7TrM3VnqFOXXi1Hu11uT4S5fwdONCc2DiyuSAbSr_jEj8lYItP6FZgo-uBe6ceNXuWlKHak0my_cz-KJGNeIBmQChlt5/s400/101027-N-1531D-077.jpg" /></a>The health education and humanitarian mission to Suriname was cut a little short when the Continuing Promise 2010 was quickly deployed to Haiti early this month to be prepared to help in the wake of Hurricane Tomas. Still, <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>volunteers and their military counterparts provided needed medical services in the country.<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>In Suriname:<br /><br />1,765 patients were cared for<br /><br />108 surgeries were performed<br /><br />676 educational encounters took place</strong></div><br />Project HOPE volunteers are home now, but we will continue to tell their stories and even post a few videos over the coming weeks, so check back for more.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s1600/krisradder.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535678323288727810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s200/krisradder.jpg" /></a>Photo by Kris Radder, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">HOPE's</span> Volunteer Public Affairs Officer<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>Help Support Project <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">HOPE's</span> Humanitarian, Health Education and Volunteer Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-34719832835179048932010-11-16T07:00:00.008-05:002010-11-16T07:00:12.738-05:00HOPE Mexico Recognizes World Diabetes Day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphenre_Sh3gQOMRDvlDYslC6JyJNNhoWLtus_vMOWuP-n3H0CoHJzz_vrALmLSPuoc57lSCZVavG9Lg4XAY9kJpafBFCI_0qjDbdOyP8I-Ok0piJ_ucAged_js6LH6jx0DHY7NRvqiuRxEA/s1600/image001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539833238612913842" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphenre_Sh3gQOMRDvlDYslC6JyJNNhoWLtus_vMOWuP-n3H0CoHJzz_vrALmLSPuoc57lSCZVavG9Lg4XAY9kJpafBFCI_0qjDbdOyP8I-Ok0piJ_ucAged_js6LH6jx0DHY7NRvqiuRxEA/s320/image001.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>O</strong></span>n Sunday, November 14th <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE</a> participated in a <a href="http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/">World Diabetes Day</a> event in Mexico City. Gathering in front of the Angel of Independence, thousands celebrated the importance of an active lifestyle, including activites such as biking and dancing, to prevent and control diabetes, obesity and related health problems. Promoting awareness is a priority for the Ministry of Health (MOH); Mexico has the second highest global obesity rate and diabetes is the leading cause of death nationwide.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH0Hen6FKod6OPFOa1Lr9QYMiyNAh4BphId9pMWi4WBbd5UdwThgX5ExyUITbr9CWm6PPu3jNjMEwOHQ71Sm4iPhe7aPvDb4d7lLCIc4BW-vZq4sN24spLedMhlg6CzvLpKAnMFir2kJo/s1600/image005.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539833520318598626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH0Hen6FKod6OPFOa1Lr9QYMiyNAh4BphId9pMWi4WBbd5UdwThgX5ExyUITbr9CWm6PPu3jNjMEwOHQ71Sm4iPhe7aPvDb4d7lLCIc4BW-vZq4sN24spLedMhlg6CzvLpKAnMFir2kJo/s320/image005.jpg" /></a>Thanks to a donation from Johnson & Johnson Project HOPE offered free blood glucose screenings, using a traffic light to help people interpret their results.<br /><br />Project HOPE also donated 20 <em>One Touch</em> glucose meters and 5,000 test strips to the Mexico City Department of Health Promotion. Vice Director Monica Huerta thanked Project HOPE for its generous support and leadership during the event.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwc8htNQQkxu9ijwd9z53Xg3FT89zljuDNKxz7h_vhdn_vXLQaV2rwtOf53nahYMULcCWIY1rGybDIwdbv9HZvIq6KW8FjTyMolhfZKiFRgR4at0AaiJpzPyTavaFzDpnbyis9W19u3ko/s1600/image007.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539861506312675074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwc8htNQQkxu9ijwd9z53Xg3FT89zljuDNKxz7h_vhdn_vXLQaV2rwtOf53nahYMULcCWIY1rGybDIwdbv9HZvIq6KW8FjTyMolhfZKiFRgR4at0AaiJpzPyTavaFzDpnbyis9W19u3ko/s320/image007.jpg" /></a>Working with “peer educators” -- people living with diabetes who have been trained by Project HOPE to educate and inspire others -- the organization will continue to raise awareness and offer screening in public spaces year-round.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEyg3buQhR1APvVHhXpHlOsaCQSF2XZPUCdRvC03KBPK0qDFR-jnZqbN15lpwYbnbopKArYRR3CHOK8vgkAePlyHzhpVruNDmUvUP5uoBIfK-dCOuiaPHb6f8-oy13AiuFIXMRi4o5Yyb_/s1600/image007.jpg"></a>Better access to screening and education is key because early detection and good self-management helps to prevent or delay complications and raise quality of life.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center">FOR MORE INFORMATION:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/node/2285"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 41px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539845459363577906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7km7gnjX1wFuD44clyEKXw8B8ovx1S87QTiPU2QVr_IMDBo27AMxzsf4r0Y_0a2DwK-rFToc_lMRNFW1AxmlscQ57GzAzpIgquS3yDA5sVfQGwv5lHxj9BIRbAUug8OXNGsFGwMplVYPU/s320/image012.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/node/2285">The International Diabetes Federation is lighting virtual candles to “Bring Diabetes to Light.”</strong><br /><strong>In Honor of World Diabetes Day, Help Support Project HOPE's Health Education Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:0;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-31625268874292748402010-11-15T10:00:00.008-05:002010-11-15T10:17:34.356-05:00World Diabetes Day in India<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uHBRpL2dF_D8Lf3-LXIHZTTgvB-ajsqR-H9M2nsqtu5QT0H1WW75QQqckLpYUH0w477iio_Ej8OujxkszhSBLt710fQKF3Agd8PQnbYp_EzoakYZHKcXc1Wcu6UcNUZWyw3jt13YjuKV/s1600/India3+005.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539794429236458354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uHBRpL2dF_D8Lf3-LXIHZTTgvB-ajsqR-H9M2nsqtu5QT0H1WW75QQqckLpYUH0w477iio_Ej8OujxkszhSBLt710fQKF3Agd8PQnbYp_EzoakYZHKcXc1Wcu6UcNUZWyw3jt13YjuKV/s200/India3+005.jpg" /></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">O</span></strong>n the evening of November 13th, leading up to <a href="http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/">World Diabetes Day,</a> New Delhi committed to lighting up 50 monuments and buildings across the city in blue. Blue is the official color of World Diabetes Day, symbolized by the blue ring, and this effort to collaborate to turn the city blue demonstrated India’s commitment to fight the rising tide of diabetes in the country.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Laoi-RvtgsxI7ppEiFkjBrO4whGyQX_oKolNl0imiEfUcKGf7LaQRbkXvMldSPn2A-VfB7JFR8gs-UXpZtnj-chICgLK-2mvuKsFqvDp-EdiFpQL1l6kapJzBP0NWvRQ2QJTC3JTCXGX/s1600/India3+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539794424011539266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Laoi-RvtgsxI7ppEiFkjBrO4whGyQX_oKolNl0imiEfUcKGf7LaQRbkXvMldSPn2A-VfB7JFR8gs-UXpZtnj-chICgLK-2mvuKsFqvDp-EdiFpQL1l6kapJzBP0NWvRQ2QJTC3JTCXGX/s200/India3+001.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE's</a>, Senior Vice President of Stuart Myers, Program Manager Dr. Sonia Kakar, Program Officer Charlotte Block and our guest Aileen Knip, the chair of the Canadian Diabetes Association attended the lighting at Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple. Also in attendance were notable corporate donors, doctors and the Danish Ambassador to India, H.E. Freddy Svane and his family. Mr. Myers and Ms. Knip gave short speeches after which, at the appointed moment, buttons were pushed at each of the appointed monuments, bathing them all in a blue light. After this ceremony, 50 lanterns were lit in the temple courtyard and rose up into the night sky.<br /><br />Attendees adjourned to the Russian Center to watch the movie premier of a film called Sankalp, about the challenges three children face with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Sankalp is a Hindi word that means “a promise one makes to oneself.” In this case, the children promise to take control of their diabetes management and live long and healthy lives.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaRcv8MYFsk4FsQcd68Wtihwrus4h1RevuFic7Lu1IAzOsJB3cakxO2aQM0ihxJMenkdgAWjovv7QgSGqpCgeTHM-siUlcDJBMEE4aF7snjxDEoTXh9NcUsMS37avmKVBc6gS2eLNYavK/s1600/charlotte_web.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539595391022377810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaRcv8MYFsk4FsQcd68Wtihwrus4h1RevuFic7Lu1IAzOsJB3cakxO2aQM0ihxJMenkdgAWjovv7QgSGqpCgeTHM-siUlcDJBMEE4aF7snjxDEoTXh9NcUsMS37avmKVBc6gS2eLNYavK/s200/charlotte_web.jpg" /></a>Story and photos by Project HOPE's Charlotte Block,MS, RD, Program Officer - Global Health Chronic Disease/Nutrition,who spent World Diabetes Day visiting HOPE program sites in India.<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>In Honor of World Diabetes Day, Help Support Project HOPE's Health Education Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-53971788266368567452010-11-14T14:39:00.001-05:002010-11-14T21:22:13.784-05:00India Diabetes Educator Project – Master Trainer Refresher Course<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">S</span></strong>ince 2007, <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>in cooperation with the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has been implementing a diabetes educator project throughout India. India, which carries the largest case burden of adults with diabetes, has traditionally lacked medical professionals to fill the important diabetes educator role. Through the<a href="http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_Saru"> India Diabetes Educator Project </a>(IDEP), Project HOPE is helping create a strong force of diabetes educators to help patients with diabetes learn self-management skills to live long and productive lives. Participating health centers throughout the country nominate nurses and dietitians to be trained as Master Trainers. The graduates then teach other health care workers in diabetes self management education (DSME) through a six-month distance learning approach.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZR6ZFGxEG6zMkhXb8SiJwfDAjaCMQHmMGQU9H6xv8XcW-_zvRcIg95skfMfEa1BpxiQx4cDRz9PJ3yjzmz3-MnrG8lHJgSa0jgfWgOz-m6tMfv_Grt6L_vY-W2KHx49IQANJj5VIhBUM_/s1600/Picture+6.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539595935655337154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZR6ZFGxEG6zMkhXb8SiJwfDAjaCMQHmMGQU9H6xv8XcW-_zvRcIg95skfMfEa1BpxiQx4cDRz9PJ3yjzmz3-MnrG8lHJgSa0jgfWgOz-m6tMfv_Grt6L_vY-W2KHx49IQANJj5VIhBUM_/s320/Picture+6.jpg" /></a>In the days leading up to the World Diabetes Day celebration in New Delhi on November 14th, Project HOPE, with assistance from IDF and Canadian Diabetes Association diabetes educators, hosted a “refresher” course for the Master Trainers. Enthusiastic nurses and dietitian trainers came to New Delhi from participating health centers across the country to hone their diabetes education skills. They heard expert presentations about motivational interviewing, behavior change theory, the Conversation Map® approach, and role playing case studies. The Master Trainers will carry this knowledge back to their health centers and passing these new skills to their diabetes educator students, thus expanding the reach of DSME across India.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaRcv8MYFsk4FsQcd68Wtihwrus4h1RevuFic7Lu1IAzOsJB3cakxO2aQM0ihxJMenkdgAWjovv7QgSGqpCgeTHM-siUlcDJBMEE4aF7snjxDEoTXh9NcUsMS37avmKVBc6gS2eLNYavK/s1600/charlotte_web.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539595391022377810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaRcv8MYFsk4FsQcd68Wtihwrus4h1RevuFic7Lu1IAzOsJB3cakxO2aQM0ihxJMenkdgAWjovv7QgSGqpCgeTHM-siUlcDJBMEE4aF7snjxDEoTXh9NcUsMS37avmKVBc6gS2eLNYavK/s200/charlotte_web.jpg" /></a>Story and photos by Project HOPE's Charlotte Block,MS, RD, Program Officer - Global Health Chronic Disease/Nutrition,who spent World Diabetes Day visiting HOPE program sites in India.<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>In Honor of World Diabetes Day, Help Support Project HOPE's Health Education Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-24753095454755412642010-11-12T11:24:00.006-05:002010-11-12T11:53:45.134-05:00Diabetes in Suriname<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0EnJhC8I3vjrMaqEgOVM9bC__4ux2w7Z_lnl0Kf99-tQ-avqKIAI-Dg9cHidTthRkNVS7Oo2aefAciialHZUC00tXQige1sZGKy7BRqSwjMpT22OgwIYlQ8vQmdyRLKiGeA0v2UIlGyS/s1600/14ProjectHOPEKDR501.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 230px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538701192985819602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0EnJhC8I3vjrMaqEgOVM9bC__4ux2w7Z_lnl0Kf99-tQ-avqKIAI-Dg9cHidTthRkNVS7Oo2aefAciialHZUC00tXQige1sZGKy7BRqSwjMpT22OgwIYlQ8vQmdyRLKiGeA0v2UIlGyS/s320/14ProjectHOPEKDR501.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE</a> volunteer, Dr. Ruth Hart, an emergency medicine physician from Manlius, New York, has seen a lot in her 30 year career. Still was startled when she first examined Rodney Berika who visited the medical site set up by the<a href="http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/factFiles.php?id=155"> Continuing Promise 2010 </a>mission in Paramaribo, Suriname.<br /><br />“He came in wearing Crocs®. When he sat down and slipped off his shoes, I saw the dirty bloody bandage wrapped around his foot. It was clear that part of his foot was missing and he had lost most of the feeling,” says Dr. Hart.<br /><br />When taking his medical history, Dr. Hart found out that Mr. Berika is a 29-year-old man, with a 10-year history of diabetes. He works on the docks in Suriname, carrying boxes and luggage. Berika is married with two sons and works very hard to support his family. He has never been able to afford the medications and medical needed to take care of his diabetes.<br /><br />Dr. Hart consulted with a military doctor participating in Continuing Promise 2010 mission and the two diagnosed Berika’s foot with an advanced diabetic pressure ulcer. They also examined his left foot and found signs of Gangrene on the fourth toe.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgTvnhuN1YxHsysvOpLbmhqqMu0HTXYW3iH9tLWO2jPWZc8y1LS8HHylTP_0dAZpChPpb3e7Qvg7hbnIzbS5R2kpWdz96hXt6ZMAk-8wM9JFC0sVNj1hWg-vJRNmNe2qMsZEkjiUSFyMY/s1600/14ProjectHOPEKDR489.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 263px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538701182400789154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgTvnhuN1YxHsysvOpLbmhqqMu0HTXYW3iH9tLWO2jPWZc8y1LS8HHylTP_0dAZpChPpb3e7Qvg7hbnIzbS5R2kpWdz96hXt6ZMAk-8wM9JFC0sVNj1hWg-vJRNmNe2qMsZEkjiUSFyMY/s320/14ProjectHOPEKDR489.jpg" /></a>The team treated the patient’s right foot and then turned their attention to educating the Berika and his family about the seriousness of diabetes and necessity of daily attention and care to his disease.<br /><br />In addition, the medical team called the local university hospital, and arranged for a representative of the hospital to provide continuing counseling and initial treatment for Berika.<br /><br />Still long-term care, daily testing and availability of insulin may remain challenges for Berika. With Suriname’s wet environment and Berika’s occupation as an outdoor laborer, wound care and healing also remain a concern.<br /><br />In the meantime, Dr. Hart provided a translator with money and instructions to purchase a real pair of shoes and some socks for Mr. Berika to wear to insure his foot stays better protected and clean.<br /><br />During the evening, others onboard the USS Iwo Jima took up a collection for fresh socks and money to possibly be able to help Berika get some of the medical equipment he needs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s1600/krisradder.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535678323288727810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s200/krisradder.jpg" /></a>Photos and story by Kris Radder, HOPE's Volunteer Public Affairs Officer<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>Help Support Project HOPE's Humanitarian, Health Education and Volunteer Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-81852544149617267542010-11-10T08:48:00.008-05:002010-11-10T09:11:20.465-05:00Volunteers Provide Care at Med Sites, Hospitals and Rural Clinics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7y4_muL9PZw0NJ5yvPmFLX4FiYBqapu2h_Pt0h9g_2gIVs6SuudAr_gcOz89XtRTYUnZTDE09COSAiEU1YM5Gy3pul_wFYhNhLRzZhgz2Z-Bert-IcTw-hPlx0bfOpWx9VYtLktNewnw/s1600/ProjectHOPEKDR495.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537922935496496114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7y4_muL9PZw0NJ5yvPmFLX4FiYBqapu2h_Pt0h9g_2gIVs6SuudAr_gcOz89XtRTYUnZTDE09COSAiEU1YM5Gy3pul_wFYhNhLRzZhgz2Z-Bert-IcTw-hPlx0bfOpWx9VYtLktNewnw/s200/ProjectHOPEKDR495.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.projecthope.org/"><strong>Project HOPE</strong> </a>volunteers provided medical care and education in several different locations as they were split up into groups in order to make the most impact during their time in Suriname. A few stayed onboard the USS Iwo Jima, many provided care at the main medical site in Paramaribo, and others were flown into rural parts of Suriname to help those that often have no access to a doctor.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5THXAxQsmOA3RpRz4AKhkgdBzZrXh_7FUatbz3MPEyWkjUoxB1xu4GjDCQLmPdAHRy_GveeKv5rK4cUSWb8HorNx603vjx-gwquj5Dji5oCX05pMTHsO7w3A-CPqOM4uhNJvoo2q46r3t/s1600/Muir1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537922700752138402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5THXAxQsmOA3RpRz4AKhkgdBzZrXh_7FUatbz3MPEyWkjUoxB1xu4GjDCQLmPdAHRy_GveeKv5rK4cUSWb8HorNx603vjx-gwquj5Dji5oCX05pMTHsO7w3A-CPqOM4uhNJvoo2q46r3t/s200/Muir1.jpg" /></a>HOPE’s Dr. Colin Muir, a physician from Cocoa Beach, Florida, along with two other HOPE volunteers and military medical professionals participated in a health education mission visiting several hospitals. The group offered a variety of presentations to local health care professionals on topics as varied as sexual transmitted diseases, to dealing with stress, to prenatal care and resuscitation.<br /><br />"We learned that Suriname has a high level of medical care,” Dr. Muir says. “The people are well educated, and have a high level of knowledge even when dealing with challenges such as delayed test results. Still they handle the challenges pretty well."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvJcQfeIDnJOo_zbgFzBrpc7gJPtmCf62vFC2qOVB-UB5PkAObc_amdt5_9Hb-IfKIYWfrEiM8y0G0Vld-gP-QKBJjax1hJhnK9q8gtzH-bU-XZ8JbjQwIGOKEo09OA5FGgPKCZHBIMHt/s1600/Bragg1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537922699511509074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvJcQfeIDnJOo_zbgFzBrpc7gJPtmCf62vFC2qOVB-UB5PkAObc_amdt5_9Hb-IfKIYWfrEiM8y0G0Vld-gP-QKBJjax1hJhnK9q8gtzH-bU-XZ8JbjQwIGOKEo09OA5FGgPKCZHBIMHt/s200/Bragg1.jpg" /></a>Volunteer Corinne Bragg-Muir, a nurse from Cocoa Beach, Florida, also visited a local hospital to participate in a teaching and information exchange session with one of the Navy nurses. "We shared information on STD's, and one of the things we let them know about is the availability of a vaccine for HPV, one of the main sources for cervical cancer in young women," she says.<br /><br />The day went very smoothly for the main medical site with a steady stream of people, seeking care and information about their health.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s1600/krisradder.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535678323288727810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s200/krisradder.jpg" /></a>Photos and story by Kris Radder, HOPE's Volunteer Public Affairs Officer<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>Help Support Project HOPE's Humanitarian, Health Education and Volunteer Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-12172993655559358972010-11-09T12:34:00.005-05:002010-11-09T12:43:48.911-05:00Volunteers in Suriname<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkAV6kRZHZJC05rjDDRsl9VPw9iaQY0uZ4oD2p3GJF-bccdmMwV_paxA9UWmmowiDmJu8zv9I8V_je2twQ5VgiWsTb0cxjZlT2Jn_6p_YSgRpMQh6-p0HD06ITHeOVSFNKXWuCxmSXMxe/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 226px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537606722794902354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkAV6kRZHZJC05rjDDRsl9VPw9iaQY0uZ4oD2p3GJF-bccdmMwV_paxA9UWmmowiDmJu8zv9I8V_je2twQ5VgiWsTb0cxjZlT2Jn_6p_YSgRpMQh6-p0HD06ITHeOVSFNKXWuCxmSXMxe/s320/12.jpg" /></a>The first day of work in Suriname was marked with celebration as the USS Iwo Jima Commodore Thomas Negus participated in opening ceremonies alongside Suriname’s dignitaries at a chosen medical site in Paramaribo.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcO4rDqxNkt8Y9mI4yCrxHqrWdjEg7ecaQVaePYDZPKS_zn9JajMgXD3rI_3oogrnDTrl6gjrobe8QkTsI9JCBbPx50vn63F8cl-NGnaYVZM1jyCDxsGeKUoEHhr6XKLGHTkeq8TsHWqO/s1600/12ProjectHOPEKDR330.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 205px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537606723964937986" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcO4rDqxNkt8Y9mI4yCrxHqrWdjEg7ecaQVaePYDZPKS_zn9JajMgXD3rI_3oogrnDTrl6gjrobe8QkTsI9JCBbPx50vn63F8cl-NGnaYVZM1jyCDxsGeKUoEHhr6XKLGHTkeq8TsHWqO/s320/12ProjectHOPEKDR330.jpg" /></a>Commodore Negus talked a bit about the eight-nation humanitarian mission and the importance of the non-governmental organization participation. “The great thing about <a href="http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/factFiles.php?id=155">Continuing Promise </a>is that number one, it is a equal partnership mission,” says Commodore Negus. “We go into these counties on their invitation, use the elements and capability of our government, our international partners and our strong civilian non-governmental organization participation like Project HOPE. We have a strong partnership with <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE</a>, they have been leaders in every (Continuing Promise) mission we have done. We might be approaching a hundred different volunteers on this mission alone."<br /><br />After the opening ceremonies, the medical site went into full gear.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKZ8nV_PwpLrGDZ7CVIiAbhhn5d-q3iLACmWuSztyl5C5wYUmw3FRZzG9NbcFWOJ97pU29sC96x0mfcDHDKtEr_R3ruHAkvnP8nZ0N_ReucwCcWvaaJC8g4JOcjXo1ADyKIfUlT0u3_2r/s1600/12ProjectHOPEKDR344.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537606727485448242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKZ8nV_PwpLrGDZ7CVIiAbhhn5d-q3iLACmWuSztyl5C5wYUmw3FRZzG9NbcFWOJ97pU29sC96x0mfcDHDKtEr_R3ruHAkvnP8nZ0N_ReucwCcWvaaJC8g4JOcjXo1ADyKIfUlT0u3_2r/s320/12ProjectHOPEKDR344.jpg" /></a>A girl who was so excited to have a tooth removed that she had little to eat all day, felt a bit light headed after her tooth removal. HOPE volunteers Kerry Decker, a nurse from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Dr. Ruth Hart, a physician from Manlius, New York, came to her aid.<br /><br />“We gave her some fluids, took her blood pressure, and provided some liquid Ibuprofen for the pain. She feels a lot better right now,” said Dr. Hart.<br /><br />Other Project HOPE volunteers are doing overnights in Suriname including Dr. Mona Khanna, a physician from Chicago, Illinois, who is doing a four day stay at a medical site.<br /><br />As the first day came to a close, volunteers are enthusiastic for their continuing work in Suriname.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s1600/krisradder.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535678323288727810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s200/krisradder.jpg" /></a>Photos and story by Kris Radder, HOPE's Volunteer Public Affairs Officer<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>Help Support Project HOPE's Humanitarian, Health Education and Volunteer Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-21266660141905648002010-11-08T09:23:00.027-05:002010-11-08T10:45:50.029-05:00More from Guyana<strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55iVqedDmEfTs6cTKnQ2l0ANO43OYeDZtNi_bfghu3ksDR7KgKcR-TNFiFLJoAJki8gfGhdmb_EzA9iZbJ7AqnsNVZn3Drr2-8Xrp1biqMrAztVpS3-iwfYh9LJPvAXLrlB9GcG0iozxd/s1600/Muir1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537205218337181986" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55iVqedDmEfTs6cTKnQ2l0ANO43OYeDZtNi_bfghu3ksDR7KgKcR-TNFiFLJoAJki8gfGhdmb_EzA9iZbJ7AqnsNVZn3Drr2-8Xrp1biqMrAztVpS3-iwfYh9LJPvAXLrlB9GcG0iozxd/s320/Muir1.jpg" /></a>A</span></strong>s the time was nearing to leave Guyana and set course for Suriname, <a href="http://www.projecthope.org/">Project HOPE </a>volunteers alongside the crew and medical staff onboard the USS Iwo Jima continued to treat and provide health education for as many Guyanese as possible.<br /><br />Some of the medical personal continued work at the onshore medical clinic site while a few others, including HOPE volunteer Dr. Colin Muir, an OB/GYN from Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Brenda Jones, a women’s health nurse practitioner from Valparaiso, Indiana, made a last visit to New Amsterdam Hospital to offer insight and learn about the maternal health practices.<br /><br />While on site, the volunteers were privileged to witness the birth of a baby. "We were able to be part of a delivery by the midwife," says Dr. Muir. "The woman in labor was a young single mother, a very gracious lady. She wanted to pray before she went into labor so we held hands, she said a prayer and went on <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxq4xr3cHzSr9_ytTG1nKN2KOtG9pplcT84yX7jCe0pCWzj2TIL79rVcG-BVIaYXV8k-LiIsAJs1eFLqiCZEOYC9i4BtzbZEwFW0fIS8P3R0sKROJAToXAqT00Pa6ymmkvo6-UuAs6UBF/s1600/Jones.jpg.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 259px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537205234709061298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxq4xr3cHzSr9_ytTG1nKN2KOtG9pplcT84yX7jCe0pCWzj2TIL79rVcG-BVIaYXV8k-LiIsAJs1eFLqiCZEOYC9i4BtzbZEwFW0fIS8P3R0sKROJAToXAqT00Pa6ymmkvo6-UuAs6UBF/s320/Jones.jpg.jpg" /></a>with the labor."<br /><br />In the labor room, Dr. Muir joked with the young women before she had given birth to the possibly of name the boy Colin, but the women had the name Jeramyia picked out.<br /><br />Onboard the ship, the Prime Minister of Guyana, Samuel Hinds, received a tour of the USS Iwo Jima and also went ashore to one of the engineering sites where the <a href="http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/factFiles.php?id=155">Continuing Promise 2010 </a>team helped rebuild a school. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLj9TavC_0gg5uK8NsJF1w-fgG68iacK_bB_S6XnRFScSHi0BGHqaYIVPynRt2Gk4rF_p1us59vrFwUMUwTtc6F0OU1Kf3JAXDSf7OaMSzKAnW9SOt6Ru2S_3tHrYXB0SRBK07GUu7sQlz/s1600/ProjectHOPEKDR181.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537205213491302242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLj9TavC_0gg5uK8NsJF1w-fgG68iacK_bB_S6XnRFScSHi0BGHqaYIVPynRt2Gk4rF_p1us59vrFwUMUwTtc6F0OU1Kf3JAXDSf7OaMSzKAnW9SOt6Ru2S_3tHrYXB0SRBK07GUu7sQlz/s320/ProjectHOPEKDR181.jpg" /></a>The team installed a working pump system, electricity throughout the school, rebuilt a fence and fixed a broken basketball hoop. The effort and the effects on the community will have a big impact for the children of Guyana for a long-time to come so it was most appropriate that the site was chosen as the location for the closing ceremonies.<br /><br />As the Air Force band played their last note and the helicopters packed up, many of the volunteers looked back on Guyana with some good memories and the knowledge of really helping out some small communities.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s1600/krisradder.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535678323288727810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbF_gak7GDoH8mOHRpfWONOOqSohM8OlSmTDJeCPvfKie1P-lBPjclKM9l9hDpe2nbqwaCXV0pc_L_n8LOxYaYieEIfDIsyEYnyw3trE2xo-xNssbTdwUvKATI0klYfWf0ZjzpR1NYXhI/s200/krisradder.jpg" /></a>Photos and story by Kris Radder, HOPE's Volunteer Public Affairs Officer<br /><br /><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1346178798&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=z3ggvy8lq6.app333b"><strong>Help Support Project HOPE's Humanitarian, Health Education and Volunteer Programs Around the Globe.</strong></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954053890447590684.post-41380863990814354322010-11-05T13:56:00.005-04:002010-11-05T14:00:44.751-04:00HOPE Continues in HaitiAs Hurricane Tomas and its aftermath brings more sorrow to the people of Haiti, Charles Prospere, Project HOPE's Representative in Haiti sends a message of continuing HOPE and help.<br /><p align="center"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0VxZqd1Bl4s?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0VxZqd1Bl4s?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p><div align="center"><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ph/site/Donation2?idb=1694297202&df_id=1320&1320.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=v6q2pvs1r7.app333b"><strong>Help Support HOPE's Continuing Work in Haiti Now</strong></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1