Meet the Volunteers in Tonga and Vanuatu

Project HOPE has sent seven volunteers aboard the USS Cleveland as part of the first rotation of the Pacific Partnership 2011. This will be Project HOPE’s 22nd mission in the past six years in partnership with the U.S Navy and Department of Defense. The first rotation of volunteers will provide care, health education and humanitarian assistance aboard the USS Cleveland and ashore in Tonga and Vanuatu. Two additional rotations of volunteers will join the mission later this spring and summer.

Bill Aiken, a nurse from Deming, Washington is on his first volunteer mission with Project HOPE.  Bill has extensive emergency room experience and is retired from the U.S. Military. He is serving as HOPE’s Operation Officer and using his emergency room skills onboard and ashore in Tonga and Vanuatu as part of Pacific Partnership 2011.

 

Jo Anne Bennett, a nurse and first-time HOPE volunteer from New York, New York is serving as a Community Health Nurse during rotation one of Pacific Partnership 2011 to Tonga and Vanuatu.

 

Bridget Binko, a nurse from Santa Cruz, California is on her first mission as a Project HOPE volunteer. She is serving as Community Health nurse throughout the entire three month Pacific Partnership 2011 mission.

 

Alan Jamison, M.D., from Morristown, Tennessee is participating in his third volunteer mission for Project HOPE. Dr. Jamison retired from his private pediatric practice in 2009 in order to pursue a career in global humanitarian medicine. He is serving as HOPE’s Medical Director throughout the Pacific Partnership 2011 humanitarian mission.

 

Maureen Kisicki, a nurse from Olney, Maryland joins the Pacific Partnership 2011 as a first-time Project HOPE volunteer. She is serving as a Pediatric Nurse throughout the more than three-month mission onboard the USS Cleveland and ashore in the Oceania region.

 

Aislinn Mangan, a nurse from Mackay, Idaho worked as Project HOPE volunteer in Haiti for several months. She is volunteering as a nurse onboard the USS Cleveland and ashore in Tonga and Vanuatu during the first rotation of Pacific Partnership 2011.

 

Kristopher Radder, a photographer from Horseheads, New York, is on his second mission as a Project HOPE volunteer, serving last year in Guyana and Suriname. Kris is serving as the Public Affairs Officer, photographing and blogging about the work of the HOPE medical volunteers throughout the entire Pacific Partnership mission.