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

A Year of HOPE 2017

Our programs and professionals made tangible strides in building health capacity across the globe in 2016. Our volunteers inspired health workers every day in hospitals and clinics that serve the most vulnerable patients – newborns and their mothers.
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How HOPE Helps Others
One Day at a Time

In my first 12 months as HOPE’s new President and CEO, I’ve been privileged to visit colleagues in 13 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Donated Medicines Help Premature Babies

Through donations of medical supplies and products, the Strategic Medical Re-Supply Program expects to have lasting impact on the well-being of patients and the health systems where we partner. Thanks to the generous support from our donor partners, we touch the lives of more than 400,000 patients in the country.
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Meet our Staff: Vlatko Uzevski

Program Manager for HOPE's Strategic Medical Resupply Program, which helps several countries in Central/Eastern Europe and Africa with donated medicines and medical supplies.
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HOPE Responds to Massive Flooding in Macedonia

Project HOPE employees and local volunteers from HOPE’s Macedonian office quickly pitched in to help with massive flooding.
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Improved Health Care through Technology

Project HOPE’s team in Macedonia successfully completed an innovative project that created modernized health data collection software.
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