On the Ground Blogs

Suchi Gaur, Ph.D., HOPE’s Communication Specialist in Southeast Asia, visited rural Nepal where HOPE is working to improve health for mothers and children. This is the first in a three-part blog series about her experiences.

Last year, Project HOPE's TB outreach impacted 59,576 migrant workers, including Gulnara, a young mother living in Kazakhstan.

We held a community clinic at a local church in a Loiza today. We had an incredible turnout, it felt like we saw the entire community. Most of our patients were diabetics needing medicines, people with hypertension, a few colds and flu. The benefit to the community is measurable and the people are so grateful.

Since I joined Project HOPE two years ago, I have been part of the team that responded to the earthquake in Ecuador, Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and now Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

Our team started the day at a senior community center to see a few patients and then we went out into the community to visit patients in their homes.

Most of the people there have been at the shelter since the Hurricane Maria hit the island nearly two weeks ago. There is no running water, electricity or air conditioning.

On Friday, just one hour before we boarded our plane to Puerto Rico, we successfully received the leukemia medication that we were asked to deliver to a 59-year-old patient, who was in desperate need of this lifesaving drug.

The health crisis caused by Hurricane Maria is mounting by the hour. Massive flooding will cause the number of water related illnesses to spike quickly and there are patients with chronic diseases which have been exacerbated by the situation and their diseases are now becoming acute.

Cathy Dunwody volunteered with Project HOPE in India for three months as a Pfizer Global Health Fellow (GHF), partnering with Project HOPE SEA (South East Asia).

With beautiful landscapes but poor health indicators, Nepal is working its way toward providing better health care solutions to its people.

Crippled by poverty, seclusion and lack of access, Raksirang Village Development Committee (VDC) is also a region plagued with poor maternal and neonatal child health indicators.

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