Field Blogs

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.

Healing Wounds and Easing Stress: a HOPE Volunteer’s Front Line Story

I work as a Pediatrician in a hospital in Ghana. We have volunteers come in several times a year, but here I was, now having an opportunity to be a volunteer to others, and uniquely, to my country of birth.

Bridget is one of the community health workers in Malawi dedicated to reducing the burden of HIV and AIDS in her community.

Baby Morie, a 5-month-old baby girl in Bo District Hospital, had been crying nonstop for two days. Project HOPE volunteers intervened to save her life.

Nurse Jacqueline Myers recently returned after serving as a Project HOPE volunteer, lecturing at Sanda University in Shanghai.