On the Ground Blogs

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.

Refugee organizations often concentrate more on the well-being of refugees than their host communities which can breed tensions between refugees and people who live in communities that have taken them in.

HOPE volunteer Christine Booth recently served on a Pacific Partnership land-based mission trip in Vietnam.

HOPE volunteer Kylee Nelson served at the University Clinical Center for Pediatrics in Macedonia providing training to nurses.

Dr. Ketan Nadkarni was a recipient of the Dr. Charles A. Sanders and Project HOPE International Residency Scholarship 2016. He shares his experiences working at Project HOPE’s program site in Shanghai.

In 1999, the war in Kosovo forced 7-year-old Krenare Jashari‘s family to leave their home and become refugees in Macedonia. Nearly 17 years later, Krenare returned to Macedonia, this time to help others now caught up in the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

But with the nurturing and care of Project HOPE volunteers, Baby Tom and his young mother grew strong and were able to return to their home soon after the birth.

America is the linchpin of the system of global health development and humanitarian assistance.

End-of-Life Nursing Education training was recently held at the Wuhan University HOPE School of Nursing in China. Carma Erickson-Hurt, a Project HOPE volunteer, gave the two-day seminar.