Due to limited resources and shortage of health workers, challenges to providing people in developing countries with basic healthcare services can be overwhelming. However the philosophy behind Nelson Mandela Day (July 18th)...
Easter is coming around the corner, the day we celebrate renewed life that came with Jesus’ resurrection. And sometimes the gratitude for a second chance to life and healing is better expressed unspoken than with eloquent words. Dr. James P. Murphy in Ghana shares in his blog a silent but beautiful moment of gratitude that he experienced from a young patient of his:
Connecticut Quest for Peace works to provide medical services, medicines and medical supplies for chronic infection, serious disease and complex injuries in Nicaragua. Since 2006, CMMB has sent over 20 donations of medicines valued at over $7 million to support their life-saving efforts.
There she stands, wounded and cracked, after having been through absolute hell for the long, bitter days of 2010.Familiar words ring true here: “ The gates of hell shall not prevail against her” - try as they might.
Thanks to the presence of teams from Haiti, Italy, Germany and the USA to help at our cholera camp, I was able to sneak out of Haiti today for three days to visit my father. As I left, Wynn was drilling a catheter into the leg bone of a near dead child, as a last effort to help Giulia and Pietro give fluids to this small victim of cholera and malnutrition.
Paddle in hand, Brother Dave Antonelli, S.J., first canoed a vessel packed with CMMB-donated medicines and supplies to families on the distant islands of Micronesia in 1973.
Global Strategies for HIV Prevention lives up to its name, taking the lead where many organizations dare not go due to unstable governments or struggling economies.
Gerby Lundi is a 15-year-old boy living in Haiti. In December of 2004, he was admitted to St. Helene Orphanage. There, at the age of 10, he was diagnosed with Epilepsy and Tuberculosis.
Due to limited resources and shortage of health workers, challenges to providing people in developing countries with basic healthcare services can be overwhelming. However the philosophy behind Nelson Mandela Day (July 18th)...
