HOPE worldwide Honduras

July Medical Brigade. OIM

2010-07-26T11:20:00.000-07:00

Hope Medical Center was again the place where hundreds of people found top quality medical care through the medical brigade of hope that does this organization with the support of doctors and private institutions.
The brigade began on Friday, taking in the areas of general medicine, internal medicine, dermatology, dentistry, gynecology and lenses. Continuing on Saturday with the arrival of many people who received the advice of medical specialists.
A total of 450 patients who attended expressed very grateful for the care they received.
This Brigade is an effort by organizations such as Hope Worldwide Foundation, Dr. Saavedra and his organization web earth foundation and the International Church of Christ. Also the support of individuals like Mr. Luis Larach, Dr. Knipe and each of the 35 volunteers who helped with the brigade.
At the end of Saturday Dr. Saavedra give Mr Larach recognition for their financial support to the Hope Medical Center, Mr. Larach is contributing this year with a monthly donation major medical center.
Dr. Saavedra has been supporting this medical center for the past six years, giving cash donations, bringing medicines, medical and inviting others to provide advice and counsel for the proper development of the Medical Center.

We thank everyone for their support and invite you to continue being part of the development of our country.

June Medical Brigade

2010-07-02T07:49:00.000-07:00

Fotos por vanessa embling

Volunteers Brought Hope and Changed Lives

During the last week of June, 40 volunteers traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to participate in the HOPE worldwideMedical Brigade. This was the second of such trips in the past six months to Honduras. HOPE worldwide U.S. volunteers from Boston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and North Carolina served the members of the San Pedro Sula International Church of Christ and surrounding communities.

Four doctors and three nurses lead the medical team. Other volunteers assisted in the pharmacy, vision clinic, dental clinic and children’s program. Dr. Milton Drake and his son, Dr. Jon Drake, administered adult medical care. Pediatricians Dr. Doug Stein and Dr. Elliott Suarez treated the children.

In four days, more than 190 children and 250 adults were treated.
Many were diagnosed and treated for respiratory illness, parasites, diabetes and hypertension.
More than 700 prescriptions were filled free of charge, with medications donated by U.S. companies and doctors.
343 people received reading glasses free of charge.

While the medical clinics were taking place, volunteers entertained the children with puppet making, face painting, soccer games and music classes.

Plans for a third Medical Brigade in January 2011 are currently underway. You can help us continue to provide this important medical care to needy families in Honduras and other communities by donating now.

Related Agenda

Thursday, June 24th,
Breakfast Buffet begins service at 6:00 am in the lobby. There are many other groups in the hotel.
7:00 am The La Ceiba room will be available for our group to eat breakfast. Pick-up your breakfast choices from the buffet and proceed to the La Ceiba meeting room. The room is located next to the gift shop in the lobby diagonally across from the buffet. The hotel will provide you with breakfast vouchers on your check in. After breakfast the group had a short devotional class by the lead evangelist from the San Pedro Sula church,
Héctor Cruz and he preaches about how God feels about pride when we don’t do nothing with the blessings we get from him using the example of Sodom. Then he encourages the group telling them that they have learned to imitate Jesus’ heart for the poor and to love even when we don’t deserve it.
7:45 am. We will have a meeting to discuss the details of the day and weekend.
8:30 am. Depart for the church building to setup for the brigade. The church building is 5 minutes from the hotel. At arrival to the church building there are already people waiting for the Brigade. There’s a sense of gratitude and joy in the faces of the disciples and their families as they wait for their turn to have a consult.
4-6 pm football soccer plan for teens, this is a church evangelistic plan. It’s great to see there are no walls of language, nationality, race or distance among disciples because they all share the heart of Jesus.
9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Medical Mission Brigade. The brigade will focus on members of the church including their extended families. (Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters) 88 children, 118 adults are listed. At the end of the day a total of XX adults have been attended, XX children and 75 glasses have been given to disciples and their families at church. Each one of them is so grateful because it has been explained that now each one has a file on a data base and they are considered “patients” of each doctor with a promise of follow up in six months. A total of XX prescriptions are filled with free medication for the needs of all. The response is so overwhelming that there’s a need to schedule another brigade for Sunday afternoon after church. The children program is a real success and the kids are so happy of being able to sing, paint, create puppets and play with the brothers and sisters.

Friday, June 25th.
Breakfast Buffet begins at 6:00 am. There will be a section of tables and chairs setup for our group located near the side entrance of the lobby. We would suggest arriving at 6:30 am as we will depart for San Antonio at 7:30. The trip to San Antonio will take approximately 1 ½ hours.
We should arrive at San Antonio approximately 9:00 am. We will work until 4:00. Once the group gets to San Antonio de Majada there are a lot of people waiting for the Brigade to start. They have set up rooms in the Medical Center for the medical attention of adults and children. A total of XX adults are attended, XX children and 93 glasses given to disciples from San Antonio de Majada and the community. It’s so humbling for our hearts to hear the words of gratitude of people sharing stories like that they now will be able to read their Bibles or finish their school because of the help received. In the building in front of the Medical Center operates a school and there is set up the Dental treatment and the children program. All the kids are joyful for what the disciples do for them. A total of XX prescriptions are filled and even some medications that are not available at the moment are bought later for the people in need.
6:30-9:30pm Teen campus singles devotional with local ministries.
Saturday, June 26th.
Breakfast Buffet begins at 6:00. Our group’s location will be moved back to the La Ceiba room. We will depart for the Chamelacon, HOPE ww, Clinic at 7:00. The clinic is approximately 20 minutes from the hotel. Is a rainy day but that’s not going to stop the desire of the disciples to help. A total of XX adults are attended, XX children and 175 glasses during the day are given to the people that come to get help. A total of XX prescriptions are filled and everybody is grateful of the selfish work of the Americans attending the Brigade.
The brigade will begin at 8:00 am – 5:00 am. 86 children, 115 Adults
6:30-9:30 Dinner at church building. A total of XX American disciples joins the XX Honduran disciples in a gratitude dinner first to God and to one and other.
Sunday, June 27th.
Church 9:00 am.
Dr. Elliot Suarez- Preaching, Randy Jordan, HOPE ww, CEO-Communion. The communion message is given by Randy Jordan reminding the congregation to love as God did. That love moves Him to give his son Jesus. Then Jesus imitating the heart of God also loved and gave, but not only giving but taking the very nature of a servant giving himself to the death on the cross. Now us as disciples need to love, give, take the nature of servants and give even our lives if it’s needed. Then Dr. Suarez preached a powerful message to the church helping us to understand that we need to do whatever it takes to save the people around us, taking our responsibility and not waiting for the leaders to do everything for us and finally learning to build with precious stones and not only with wood and hay.
The clinic for disciples and their families will immediately follow the church service. At the end of the service the Brigade continued attending the rest of the people that couldn’t be seen on Thursday.
After the church we will done with the list of the disciples that we cannot see on Thursday.
Departure to Airport, resort or Hotel depend case.

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Starting the week

2010-04-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

We began this week very encourage and with a lot of work many patients came to the clinic looking for health. We prescribed many readers lenses, recently we receive a donation about 1200 lenses from FUNADEH with who we have a cooperation agreement signed.

Olivia Suazo, who is our dentist looked 5 patients, she was asisted by Katherine who is a old volunter in our fundation.Suyapa Luna was very busy receiving patients, taking vital signs, working at the pharmacy and preparing the records.

A good week start with a lot of work.

Vacation Time, Time to Clean our Clinic

2010-04-01T23:59:00.000-07:00

As you Know our organization have a clinic in Chamelecon, we have diferents kind of services like General medicine, Odontology, Laboratory, Reader lenses, Ginecology and more.

The photos show our people clueaning and cuting the grass.

We are taking one week of vacation because this is the Holy week and many people take time to go out of the city.

In our clinic we take time to clean a give maintenance to the building.

Anual Report

2008-02-01T18:32:00.000-08:00

Accomplishments:
Medical Center in Chamelecon:
We began the year with two dentist treating patients in the clinic one times a week. Now, we have been able to expand, and there are currently three dentist working five days a week. We have a new Chair donated for Saving the Crossroad Fundation. We currently have all the equipment necessary for providing complete dental service.In addition, we also have one general practice doctor who work part-time, five days a week. We have begun gathering the equipment for this position. This year, we hosted two medical brigades, in which 800 patients were treated. We atended 6,500 patients in 2008 year.
We also have a nurse working fulltime 6 days to week.

Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPE in Choloma:
This year, we registered 200 first to sixth grade students. We done four new classromms for the children. The project is to add one two-story building with four classrooms on each floor. The cost of the first part of the project is over $26,000.00 and we collected $25,000.00. We also raised funds to pay the annual salary for one teacher, making three teachers in total.

Faces of Hope
Chamelecon, Honduras:
Like the women in the picture, many people are in desperate need of glasses, shoes, and medical attention. Many middle aged and elderly people suffer from severe cases diabetes, which affects the eyes, feet, and kidney. It is among the top causes of death in the country.The children in this region suffer from parasites and skin infections. Also, the polluted water and dust in the air causes respiratory problems.In order to reach these people, HOPE worldwide volunteers works to educate the people and to gather funding to provide health services.

Monteverde, Honduras
Honduras is one of the most violent countries of the region. The separation of families, lack of employment and education are the principle causes of this problem.In the School of HOPE, the students arrive with a smile on their faces because they have an opportunity to change the future of their lives and their families.About 200 children are benefited every year with the help that this school gives.

HOPE Worldwide Honduras Facts

200 children are educated at the Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPEOver 4,205 people receive medical and dental care at the Central Medical Clinic of HOPEHOPE volunteers work to encourage the lives of more than 810 children in need through giving food and their time.The Medical Clinic of HOPE in Chamelecon provides medical and dental treatment in a community of great need. Three fulltime dentists and two part-time doctor provide services to the community Monday through Friday. Medical brigades also frequent the clinic, which enables it to treat and educate a larger number of people.

The Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPE in Monteverde provides an education to children in an impoverished area. The children at this school range in the ages 6-18, giving them an opportunity to improve their futures. The school was expanded from one to four clasromms, in order to provide a better education for the growing number of children in this area.
We plan to increase the services that we offer in both the medical clinic and the school. In order to make this happen, we need generate more funds for additional staff salaries and supplies. For the clinic, we are in need of medical equipment: endoscopy unit, ultrasound, fetal monitor, three air conditioning units, four computers, and four beds. For the school, six white boards, 250 desks, six file cabinets, paint, and 40 computers are needed.Plan

Currently, we are working with the Rotary Club in Orlando, Florida, Funadeh, International Churches, Earth web Fundation, Orlando Medical sociaty and others, they help us to provide funding to support our medical clinic. In addition, HOPE volunteers participate in various fundraisers throughout the year.

Tegucigalpa, DC. Honduras

The Asylum of Invalids of "General Hospital San Felipe" received a group of 19 volunteers came to give them encouragement and hope to 59 seniors. These people are here because they are sick or have been abandoned by their relatives.

Angela Diaz, who is the Director of the Centre said, I am very grateful because this activity is an ingredient of encouragement for all those who support the asylum, we have many needs that they have carried feel very helpless.

Maritza Rodriguez, who has 80 yeras old and 20 years to leave in the asylum commented: I am happy that this world still having people who have the heart to spend love for us, we have so much need, look at my skin burns in my back, the skin burns came because I stay all time on this bed, I can't stand up. thank you for coming visit us.

Claudia Sierra, who is a volunteer of the Foundation, commented: I am very happy to share with both ancient who passing alone many time and with so many wanting to share love; I want to support the pharmacy of this asylum.

Activity started giving thanks to God with a prayer and asking for their love and companionship there, we call this activity "Receiving Friendship," we continue to make delivery of a supply of food for asylum. Then we deliver to each elder with a glass oask milk pancakes and created especially for them, we talk with each of them and they told us of their experiences and showed us his friendship and affection. Then we deliver soda and cake to culminate with the holding, some of them expressed with tears in their eyes that "well we like to hold us." Share with them was a great experience encourage and inspiring.

Rolando Sandoval

Anual Report 2006

2007-05-02T15:29:00.000-07:00

Accomplishments:
Medical Center in Chamelecon:
We began the year with two dentist treating patients in the clinic one times a week. Now, we have been able to expand, and there are currently three dentist working five days a week. Through fundraising, we were able to purchase an x-ray that allows the dentists to perform root canals. We currently have all the equipment necessary for providing complete dental service.
In addition, we also have two general practice doctor who works part-time, five days a week. We have begun gathering the equipment for this position. This year, we hosted five medical brigades, in which 1,500 patients were treated. We are also making software to store patient files.

Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPE in Choloma:
This year, we registered 250 first to sixth grade students. We made plans for building new classrooms. The project is to add one two-story building with three classrooms on each floor. The cost of the project is over $26,000.00 and we collected $18,000.00. Construction will begin in January. We also raised funds to pay the annual salary for one teacher, making three teachers in total.

Faces of Hope
Chamelecon, Honduras: Like the women in the picture, many people are in desperate need of glasses, shoes, and medical attention. Many middle aged and elderly people suffer from severe cases diabetes, which affects the eyes, feet, and kidney. It is among the top causes of death in the country.
The children in this region suffer from parasites and skin infections. Also, the polluted water and dust in the air causes respiratory problems.
In order to reach these people, HOPE worldwide volunteers works to educate the people and to gather funding to provide health services.

Monteverde, Honduras
Honduras is one of the most violent countries of the region. The separation of families, lack of employment and education are the principle causes of this problem.
In the School of HOPE, the students arrive with a smile on their faces because they have an opportunity to change the future of their lives and their families.
About 250 children are benefited every year with the help that this school gives.

HOPE Worldwide Honduras Facts
250 children are educated at the Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPE
Over 1,600 people receive medical and dental care at the Central Medical Clinic of HOPE
HOPE volunteers work to encourage the lives of more than 1,600 children in need through giving food and their time.

The Medical Clinic of HOPE in Chamelecon provides medical and dental treatment in a community of great need. Three fulltime dentists and one part-time doctor provide services to the community Monday through Friday. Medical brigades also frequent the clinic, which enables it to treat and educate a larger number of people.

The Tiburcio Martinez School of HOPE in Monteverde provides an education to children in an impoverished area. The children at this school range in the ages 6-18, giving them an opportunity to improve their futures. The school is currently expanding in order to provide a better education for the growing number of children in this area.
Needs

We plan to increase the services that we offer in both the medical clinic and the school. In order to make this happen, we need generate more funds for additional staff salaries and supplies. For the clinic, we are in need of medical equipment: x-ray, endoscopy unit, ultrasound, fetal monitor, three air conditioning units, four computers, and four beds. For the school, six white boards, 250 desks, six file cabinets, paint, and 40 computers are needed.
Plan

Currently, we are working with the Rotary Club in Orlando, Florida, and they promised to provide funding to support our medical clinic. Orlando Internal Medicine provides the salary for one dentist and one general practice doctor. Alcoa has given $18,000 to allow us to begin the construction of the new building at the school. In addition, HOPE volunteers participate in various fundraisers throughout the year.