Project HOPE Volunteers Complete 2008 Latin America Mission

Volunteers from Project HOPE completed a humanitarian assistance mission to Latin America with the United States Navy providing basic health care, health education and humanitarian assistance to more than 61,000 children and adults who often do not have access to care.

The mission, Continuing Promise 2008, sent two Navy ships, the USS Boxer to Guatemala and El Salvador in May and June, and the USS Kearsarge to Nicaragua, Colombia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana from August to November. More than 60 Project HOPE medical volunteers from across the United States joined Navy personnel and volunteers from Operation Smile to provide basic medical care and health education to people in the region.

Project HOPE volunteers, alongside Navy medical personnel and other NGO volunteers performed 219 surgeries and conducted 46 health professional training classes for more than 27,000 local health care professionals.

Project HOPE also delivered nearly $2.5 million of donated medicines and medical supplies during Continuing Promise 2008.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• humanitarian assistance
• health education
• medical volunteers
• Project HOPE
• Latin America

[RCvolunteer1978]

I wish to donate my time maybe 3 to 6months helping in Haiti or some place else