Central & Eastern Europe

Project HOPE has helped modernize health care systems across Central and Eastern Europe since 1974 through training health professionals, expanding hospital services, and improving health care management.

 

Project HOPE is on the ground responding to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Click here to learn more about our response and how you can help.

The quality of health care across Central and Eastern Europe has fallen significantly behind the rest of Europe. Health systems have struggled to modernize and overcome decades of neglect; with multiple countries also rebuilding their health systems after devastation by conflict. Project HOPE’s work in Central and Eastern Europe focuses on humanitarian assistance programs and on improving neonatal and pediatric care. Our programming has included:

  • Training to improve management of chronic respiratory diseases, patient safety, HIV/AIDS and mental health.
  • Improving neonatal and pediatric care in Romania, Hungary, Poland and North Macedonia.
  • Alleviating shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment in North Macedonia and Kosovo
  • Innovative, multi-disciplinary, small group-based training on health care management

Currently, Project HOPE is working in North Macedonia and Kosovo, continuing its efforts to strengthen pediatric and neonatal care practices.

Our History in Central and Eastern Europe
Project HOPE began its work in Central and Eastern Europe in 1974 with a partnership with the University Children’s Hospital (UCH) of Krakow, Poland. Since 1974, more than 700 Project HOPE volunteers have provided medical training to more than 6,000 UCH health professionals.

In 1992, Project HOPE pioneered a health care management program in the region, training over 3,500 health care providers in the latest approaches to health care management.

In 2007, we began an innovative strategic medical re-supply program in North Macedonia, working with Ministries of Health to donate essential medicines and supplies to reduce the burden on strained health resources. This opened the door to war-torn Kosovo and helped us provide support to Syrian refugees.

Today, Project HOPE is on the ground responding to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. Click here to learn more. Along with working within Ukraine, we are also responding to neighboring countries—Poland, Romania and Moldova.

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What's New in Central & Eastern Europe

HOPE for Young Girl with Cystic Fibrosis

An emotional account of how Project HOPE's donations of medicine for Cystic Fibrosis are helping a young girl and her family in Kosovo.
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Project HOPE and North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Announce…

Dr. Ketan Nadkarni will be serving at one of Project HOPE’s program sites in Shanghai and Dr. Krishna Aluri will be working at the NGO’s program site in Kosovo.
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Global NGO Project HOPE Honors Two Decade Legacy of Department of…

Since 1992, Operation Provide Hope , the Department of State, Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia, has delivered more than $5 billion in targeted humanitarian aid to former Soviet states.
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Providing Care to Kids Trapped in the Middle of the Refugee Crisis

From the beginning of 2016, the HOPE volunteers and medical staff supporting the refugees traveling though the country have treated more than 1,000 patients, mostly children with illnesses such as fevers, and head lice, and adults struggling from illnesses such as bronchitis and diabetes. A new volunteer team, consisting a doctor, nurse and a logistician which began helping at the northern border on March 15, reported treating more than 50 patients on the very first day.
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HOPE Delivers

Reflections on first 100 days at HOPE.
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Volunteers Help Refugees with a Variety of Ailments

In this second blog, volunteer nurse Louisa Reade continues recounting her experiences volunteering with Project HOPE at the Gevgelija Transit Center in Macedonia.
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