College Students Giving Back to Remote Villages in Honduras

Pharmaceuticals Shipped to Honduras

GCHope sent a shipment of pharmaceuticals to the Global Brigades clinic in Honduras on Feb 23!

2010.02.24 by GCHope

Update from Global Brigades

Dear Giving Children Hope,

On behalf of all of us at Global Brigades, we would like to sincerely thank you for your medication supplies for our brigades this January 2010. As you know, sustainably treating those in Honduras who cannot otherwise receive care is the mission of Global Medical Brigades, and it is one we are strongly committed to.

Your subsidized medical shipment was used by two brigades, those of Loyola University and San Diego State University. Each brought a total of over 60 students and 6 doctors, 4 physician assistants, and a paramedic. Together these volunteers were able to treat over 2,400 patients during their weeklong stay in Honduras.

For our Honduran community members, your contribution made a simple yet powerful difference in their everyday lives. Many of them are unable to access healthcare because there is no doctor they may reach, the local clinics are understaffed and lacking medication, or simply because they cannot afford such steep costs and are forced to live in poverty. For such underserved populations, donations of medication you provide means for our volunteers to give the men, women, and children of Honduras a quality of life they previously could not dream of. Whether it be scabies, gastrointestinal parasites, malaria, infection, or even malnutrition, offering what Giving Children Hope has to these Hondurans has made a difference which none of us can truly appreciate the magnitude.

Similarly, for many of the Loyola and SDSU volunteers this was their first time venturing out to help others overseas. Your medication made SDSU’s first brigade a great success, ensuring that their school has other brigades in the years to come. This budding volunteerism and global sustainable activism is, like what our doctors and your medication is able to offer Hondurans, a change which is immeasurable. We look forward to many SDSU and Loyola brigades in the years to come.

Again, on behalf of all of us here at Global Brigades, our members of the Loyola and SDSU Medical Brigades, and those who were able to receive treatment in Honduras, thank you for your commitment to helping others. We look forward to working with Giving Children Hope again in the future.

Sincerely,
Alex Abadir
Medical Chair, Global Brigades, Inc.

2010.01.25 by GCHope

Shipment Arrives: A Thank You from the Community

Sister Maria Rosa Leggol O.S.F., the General Director of Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos, sent a letter to Giving Children Hope:

January 2008

Dear Giving children Hope,

On behalf of Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos (SAN), I would like to thank you for your medicine donation. This donation will enable us to provide general medical attention to the many citizens of Honduras who lack health care.

Since its inception in 1966, Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos has educated over 35,000 children and through its medical brigades, has provided free health services to thousands of Honduran families; attending [to] 50,000 Hondurans in the year 2007 alone. This is only possible because of thoughtful contributions from people like you.

Once again, thank you for your contribution.

Sincerely,

Sister Maria Rosa, Leggol O.S.F
General Director
Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos
Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.
Honduras, C.A.

2008.03.31 by

Medicine Ships

Today, pharmaceuticals shipped to Honduras. Thanks for your help in partnering together to help Global Medical Brigades serve small villages in need!

2008.03.22 by