June 18-26, 2011 was a week of my life that I will never forget. I had the privilege of traveling to Honduras with United Methodist Church of Farmville sponsored through Friends of Barnabas Foundation. We stayed with at the foundation house in Peña Blanca and traveled to five different villages all in the mountains of Honduras. The villages included Santa Ana, Pompoa, Las Crucitas, Montañuelas, and Bueña Vista. I was one of 15 in my group combined of medical and non-medical staff. At each village, we set up a medical clinic with three registered nurses, one nurse practitioner, two 2 nursing students, and one local doctor. We also set up a de-worming clinic and an eye clinic.
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Introduction
Youths Organization for International Volunteers (“Youths Organization”) is a non governmental, non partisan and non profit making organization. Its goal is to offer services to the Kenyan community, through volunteering, that target and address the most serious issues affecting our community: HIV/AIDS, health care and nutrition, environmental conservation, child rights (including the rights of orphans, street children and other vulnerable children), gender based violence, sustainable agriculture, home based care, teaching and training amongst others.
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The day marked my fourth month in Belize. My husband, Norm, and I had spent weeks and shed buckets of sweat turning a dirty, dilapidated corner of a building into a medical clinic for women. Since then, day after day, for long hours I attended to patients while geckos climbed the walls and termites built fresh trails on the ceiling over my exam table. Though I was a nurse, my duties had expanded beyond providing basic health care. I also disposed of the occasional dead rat on the path to the clinic, swept mounds of dead bugs from the floor, and waged daily war against mosquitoes big enough to ride. Once I even armed myself with a machete and battled an opossum that wanted to make my clinic his home.
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For the past five years, Hands Along the Nile Development Services (HANDS), an NGO based in Virginia, in cooperation with our Egyptian partner CEOSS, has organized annual Medical Mission trips to Egypt. Our mission is to promote peace and cooperation with the Middle East by building bridges between the US and Egypt, the most populous and influential country in the Arab world.
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While this article was written in the fall of 2000, it certainly must reflect the experiences and feelings of a multitude of nursing professionals now doing the same type of work in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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We are up early and off to our first day of clinic. El Tesoro is about an hours ride from Santa Lucia. We pass pineapple plants and banana trees as we travel. Off in the distance are formations of volcanoes. As we approach El Tesoro, the roads become very rocky, with drives over small creeks and other rough terrain in our little Mitsubishi minivans.
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One Nurse At A Time, a Washington state based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by nurses, is accepting nominations for its 2011 scholarship program, which aims to promote and lower the barriers for nurses interested in volunteer and humanitarian nursing. Laura Weisgerber, RN, BSN received the third $1000 Humanitarian Nursing Scholarship for 2011 from One Nurse At A Time and served on a medical mission with Healing the Children in La Troncal, Ecuador, from March 12-19, 2011. In Laura’s own words…
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The clinic is still affiliated with Beaumont, but when Gokenbach's job was eliminated late last year, she contacted Albom. "I called Mitch and told him I'm not with Beaumont anymore, but I've got the clinic all taken care of and I'll still volunteer my time for you and help you in any way you want," she said. "He was very, very supportive and called me down to meet with him and said 'I'd like for you to work with me.'"
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Many of the following non-profit organizations offer volunteer experiences that promote cross-cultural sharing and understanding within the context of community. Volunteers often work in small teams, living and working with hosts of the country. Projects may include a clinical and community health component.
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See International performs free sight-restoring surgery, recruiting dedicated professionals who volunteer their time and pay their own expenses to participate in an expedition.
Operation Rainbow Reconstructive surgery to disadvantaged children, picks up airfare for OR nurses.
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