notes: Project HOPE continues to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Latest Information: •During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, we have provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. •We are now transitioning our relief efforts to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people. •This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. If you are a health care professional interested in volunteering, continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site for updates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectHOPEorg?ref=mf Project HOPE Twitter: http://twitter.com/projecthopeorg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Volunteer page: http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti_volunteers Project HOPE is committed to the long-term health care needs of the Haitian people and their country. During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, the organization provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As relief efforts transition to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people, the USNS Comfort is preparing to return to the United States. However, Project HOPE is staying in Haiti. This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. While the window for volunteer opportunities on board the USNS Comfort has come to an end, there is the potential for ongoing volunteer opportunities with Project HOPE in Port-au-Prince and throughout Haiti. Please continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site and Facebook page for updates on HOPE volunteer opportunities. Thank you to those who have served and to those who have expressed a desire to serve as a HOPE volunteer in Haiti. Your selfless service is the spirit that fuels the Project HOPE legacy now and for the future. -> FROM RELIEF WEB: A Simple Solution To Help Combat Cholera In Haiti Source: Project HOPE Date: 02 Nov 2010 BY Lisa Collier Cool • POSTED November 2 2010 AT 12:05 pm Haiti's first cholera outbreak in a century has heightened longstanding fears of an epidemic spreading to the crowded camps sheltering more than 1.5 million people left homeless by the January 12 earthquake. So far, more than 4,700 cases have been reported, claiming upward of 300 lives. Aid groups are rushing medical teams, water purification kits and medical supplies to the outbreak's epicenter, a rural area north of the nation's capital, and working to protect vulnerable earthquake survivors in other regions from this dangerous new health threat. Among them is Project HOPE, a Millwood, Virginia humanitarian group that provided more than 100 volunteer doctors and nurses, along with $60 million in medical supplies immediately after the quake, then launched a multi-year program to care for the more 10,000 patients requiring long-term care from earthquake injuries, including 4,000 amputees. The group has now sent a team of 6 additional medical volunteers, headed by Dr. Larry Ronan of Massachusetts General Hospital, to treat cholera cases at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. Once again, Haiti is battling a natural disaster, since the cholera outbreak appears to be triggered by drinking water polluted with sewage after flooding in the affected region. Cholera is an intestinal disease that causes such severe vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration that it can kill in hours. However, a simple treatment—hailed as one of greatest health advances of the past 150 years by British Medical Journal—can save lives, at an average cost of just $5 per patient. Known as oral rehydration therapy (ORT), it consists of three ingredients: sugar, salt and water. In the 1960s, researchers Richard Cash, MD, MPH and David Nalin, MD discovered through clinical trials in Bangladesh that this oral solution worked just as well as IV fluids that are scarce and expensive in developing countries. Since then, ORT has rescued more than 40 million people around the world from diarrheal diseases, including saving the lives of about 3 million babies and toddlers each year. To combat the Haitian cholera outbreak, USAID is providing 300,000 ORT kits to affected areas and other groups are trucking in clean water, chlorine, hygiene kits and tents to help overwhelmed local hospitals shelter patients. The Red Cross has launched a public health campaign via radio and text messages to educate people about the disease's symptoms and sanitation practices to prevent it. To help kids with cholera, Project HOPE has sent 50 cases of Pedialyte, a type of ORT formulated for children, plus cases of LifeStraws, portable filters that remove 99.99% of bacteria, including the germs that cause cholera, from drinking water. Since they don't require batteries or electricity, and can purify up to 18,000 liters of water (enough to supply a family of five for three years), these innovative devices are widely used in developing countries where people lack access to safe water. Through similar missions in Turkey and China after earthquakes in those countries, Project HOPE president and CEO John Howe III, MD, has learned that there are three phases to disaster relief. "Over the weeks and months after the acute crisis of utter destruction, chaos and traumatic injury, there's the quiet crisis of treating chronic illness and rehabilitation, followed by the unseen crisis: the need for vaccines and good sanitation to prevent infectious diseases like cholera." In just ten months, the impoverished island nation has been hit with all three crises and more than 9,000 NGOs from around the world have stepped in to help, reports Dr. Howe, who recently met with officials and public health workers in Haiti. "The lesson learned is that where there's a crisis, there's hope. After immense tragedy, the Haitian people survive on sheer determination." ---------------------------------------- Project HOPE continues to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Latest Information: •During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, we have provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. •We are now transitioning our relief efforts to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people. •This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. If you are a health care professional interested in volunteering, continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site for updates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectHOPEorg?ref=mf Project HOPE Twitter: http://twitter.com/projecthopeorg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Volunteer page: http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti_volunteers Project HOPE is committed to the long-term health care needs of the Haitian people and their country. During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, the organization provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As relief efforts transition to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people, the USNS Comfort is preparing to return to the United States. However, Project HOPE is staying in Haiti. This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. While the window for volunteer opportunities on board the USNS Comfort has come to an end, there is the potential for ongoing volunteer opportunities with Project HOPE in Port-au-Prince and throughout Haiti. Please continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site and Facebook page for updates on HOPE volunteer opportunities. Thank you to those who have served and to those who have expressed a desire to serve as a HOPE volunteer in Haiti. Your selfless service is the spirit that fuels the Project HOPE legacy now and for the future.
mission: ABOUT US Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HUMANITARIAN AID The mission of Project HOPE’s Humanitarian Assistance program is twofold; provide emergency assistance where disasters strike and strengthen our educational programs and facilities with medicines and medical products. While Project HOPE is not always among the first organizations to bring medical products into an area affected by a natural or man-made disaster, our strategy is to provide long-term access to vital medicines and supplies, even after the attention of the outside world has moved on to other issues. We also support our international health education programs with donated product – items like pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and equipment – supplied by some of the world’s leading corporations. These products range from lifesaving antibiotics to sophisticated medical equipment used to teach the latest surgical techniques. Over the course of our history, we shipped nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance around the world. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need. -> ABOUT US Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HUMANITARIAN AID The mission of Project HOPE’s Humanitarian Assistance program is twofold; provide emergency assistance where disasters strike and strengthen our educational programs and facilities with medicines and medical products. While Project HOPE is not always among the first organizations to bring medical products into an area affected by a natural or man-made disaster, our strategy is to provide long-term access to vital medicines and supplies, even after the attention of the outside world has moved on to other issues. We also support our international health education programs with donated product – items like pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and equipment – supplied by some of the world’s leading corporations. These products range from lifesaving antibiotics to sophisticated medical equipment used to teach the latest surgical techniques. Over the course of our history, we shipped nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance around the world. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need.

mission: Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need. -> ABOUT US Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HUMANITARIAN AID The mission of Project HOPE’s Humanitarian Assistance program is twofold; provide emergency assistance where disasters strike and strengthen our educational programs and facilities with medicines and medical products. While Project HOPE is not always among the first organizations to bring medical products into an area affected by a natural or man-made disaster, our strategy is to provide long-term access to vital medicines and supplies, even after the attention of the outside world has moved on to other issues. We also support our international health education programs with donated product – items like pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and equipment – supplied by some of the world’s leading corporations. These products range from lifesaving antibiotics to sophisticated medical equipment used to teach the latest surgical techniques. Over the course of our history, we shipped nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance around the world. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need.

organization: -> International Humanitarian Aid - Medical Services

town: -> Port-au-Prince (and surrdounding areas)

notes: Project HOPE continues to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Latest Information: •During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, we have provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. •We are now transitioning our relief efforts to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people. •This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. If you are a health care professional interested in volunteering, continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site for updates. -> Project HOPE continues to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Latest Information: •During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, we have provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. •We are now transitioning our relief efforts to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people. •This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. If you are a health care professional interested in volunteering, continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site for updates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectHOPEorg?ref=mf Project HOPE Twitter: http://twitter.com/projecthopeorg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Project HOPE Volunteer page: http://www.projecthope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=our_work_response_to_Haiti_volunteers Project HOPE is committed to the long-term health care needs of the Haitian people and their country. During the first phase of HOPE’s response to the Haiti earthquake, the organization provided more than 75 medical volunteers to serve on board the USNS Comfort and distributed more than $15 million of medicines and medical supplies to hospitals and medical facilities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As relief efforts transition to address the intermediate and long-term needs of the Haitian people, the USNS Comfort is preparing to return to the United States. However, Project HOPE is staying in Haiti. This week, members of a Project HOPE assessment team are in Port-au-Prince and surrounding communities meeting with Haitian government officials and area hospital administrators. HOPE’s goal is to quickly establish intermediate primary care and long-term rehabilitation programs in country. While the window for volunteer opportunities on board the USNS Comfort has come to an end, there is the potential for ongoing volunteer opportunities with Project HOPE in Port-au-Prince and throughout Haiti. Please continue to visit the Project HOPE Web site and Facebook page for updates on HOPE volunteer opportunities. Thank you to those who have served and to those who have expressed a desire to serve as a HOPE volunteer in Haiti. Your selfless service is the spirit that fuels the Project HOPE legacy now and for the future.
mission: Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need. -> Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need.

name: Project HOPE - 2010 Haiti Earthquake -> Project HOPE - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (MEDICAL UNITS/SUPPLIES)
facility_type: Unknown -> Medical Facility
mission: Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need. -> Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries. Over the past five decades, Project HOPE has demonstrated its ability to develop and permanently institute long-term solutions to pressing health problems, the true essence of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE remains as committed as ever to addressing the world’s new health threats by playing a leadership role forging new alliances among those on the frontlines of health and together seek new solutions. HOPE’s Mission: To achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need.