Dear Friends,
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This year we want to show you how much we LOVE you and the difference you have made to the lives of hundreds of people around the world. We hope you have a wonderful day!
Thank you for all you do!
The Together in Hope Team
Please see our newsletter below to read about the difference you have made and our plans for 2012.
We have a volunteer position open
Together in Hope is looking for a volunteer to help with website design. We are looking for some who is currently studying website design or who is working in this field and is willing to donate their time. We need some to help us improve our website and add some basic features. We would like to have a website that is accessible to all, and represents who we are and the work we do. Volunteers would be under the supervision of the Program Director. Together in Hope is a nonprofit working to help the world’s poor help themselves through self sustainable projects. If you think this is some thing that would be interested in doing, we would love to hear from you!
It’s flexible! We’ll work with your schedule.
This is a Virtual Opportunity, with no fixed address.
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El Salvador Medical Mission 2012
This medical mission was a vision that our director and founder Diane McGehee has had for many years. It is the first of its kind been done with this community, in fact Together in Hope is the first organizations to be invited in to help this community. In the area where we work, there is one doctor for 30,000 people, he has very little resources and the need is too great for one person. As one of our team members Joanna said’ We cannot change the world, but we can help change a life’ and I believe we did!
Some of the children showing us their clean hands after a preventative medicine class
Our team went from seeing 61 patients the first day, 87 the second day to over 100 for the last three days. Every single member of the team gave it their absolute all and gave 110%. The majority of our team had no medical training, but wow did we get the job done. On Friday night we counted all our patient forms and between medical and dental we saw and treated approximately 500 people. I cannot express the joy and gratitude that the Together in Hope team felt when this number was revealed, all I can say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, to everyone who made it possible!
Dr Tammy working hard
Not only did we see patients, but we also interviewed 12 families discovering the needs of the community and how we can improve our program. Each family had an amazing story and was most welcoming to our team. After speaking to them, many came to the clinic, and gave hugs and kisses to all our team and were so grateful to us for giving them time and giving them much needed assistance.
One of the families we met, both children have special needs and attend Rosa Blanca. There are no services or support systems for children with special needs in El Salvador
Our goal is to build a community centre, medical/dental clinic and a bigger school in this community. We are hoping to buy a piece of property to fulfil this goal. During this mission we were able to see the property and it is amazing! There is already a building on it that will be perfect for the medical clinic, and the space is big enough to build a community centre and a school that will enable the children to continue their education past 6th grade and finally get the opportunities they deserve.
The piece of property we are hoping to buy- What an amazing piece of land
The goal of this trip was to plant a seed in the community, to begin the vision of this community to become empowered and to create a better future for all. As I have said this was the first trip of its kind in this community and we learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. We will be forever grateful to our team for helping us see our dream become a reality! It would not have been possible without each and every one of you. Thank you to you all. You were all amazing and we are so grateful.
Our team with local volunteers and the Together in Hope team
El Salvador:
In the fall of 2010, a community-needs-assessment test was carried out in the Alta Mira Flores community by our onsite coordinator Edwin Pineda. Together in Hope became aware that 95% of the population in this community have never seen a doctor. Doctors and dentists are areas of speciality that are very exclusive in El Salvador, meaning that the people living in the impoverished communities where Together in Hope works do not have access to basic health care services.Together in Hope will bring a medical team to El Salvador in January 2012 to work with six of the most marginal communities located in the San Jacinto area.The projected number of patients that this team will serve is 400-500 patients during a five day clinic.We will also run basic dental care classes, and classes such as basic hygiene as well as offering adult education classes on these topics. Together in Hope also wishes to conduct basic first aid classes for the teachers at the La Rosa Blanca School and the parents of the community. If you would like to volunteer please do not hesitate to contact us.
Philippines:
Together in Hope recently launched a new empowerment program for the women in the three communities we work in, 45 women and young girls are now enrolled in sewing classes which will assist them in financially sustaining their families. The Jessica’s table program is feeding 500 children per week in Malis and Bicol. Both Jenny and Rose have started univeristy thanks to the program ‘Strings of Hope’.
Ethiopia:
Together in Hope has just returned from a 3 week trip to Africa. We travelled to Ethiopia and Kenya to work with street children and orphans. It was a great success and we are now supporting new sister organization Youth Release working in Ethiopia. On August 1st Youth Release opened the doors of a new youth center that will provide educational support to 200 street children. Various other programs will be run at the center, these include, skilled training, tutorial class support, health awareness groups, circus groups, a library as well as life skills training, psychosocial counseling and recreational activities.In addition to this we will be offering a child sponsorship program at the centre to the most disadvantaged youth as well as an Orphaned or Vulnerable Children (OVC) training program for street kids who have not afforded the luxury of full-time education. If interetsted please email laurapower@togetherinhope.org
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