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Positions are still available for our second team that is scheduled to be sent to the Turkana region of Kenya. For more information about this team please visit the trip description page by following this link: http://projecthelpinghands.org/content/kenya-turkana-region-octobernovember-2012
Our Mission Statement:Project Helping Hands is a non-affiliated not-for-profit organization dedicated to facilitating culturally sensitive growth opportunities for volunteers to provide health and medical intervention programs for those lacking access; to develop sustainable, locally-run health promotion and prevention programs, and to assist with the basic life needs of the less...
SAVE THE DATE ! September 22nd. 2012 Third Annual Project Helping Hands SummitThis years event will take place on Saturday September 22nd. 2012 in Portland Oregon at the Mercy Corps Action center. A continental breakfast will be available on Saturday morning at the event location. The Mercy Corps Action center is adjacent to the...
Help us reach our goal of 200 Donors by March 1st. 2012! By becoming a life blood donor you can make a sustained difference in the lives of those who are in need of our services. You can sign up to make an automatic donation on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis to our General Fund where the proceeds will be used in the area of greatest need. ...
By Doctor Karolina DembinskiOur medical mission to the Jungles of Bolivia this year was a success. Arriving at the end of the rainy season, we found the road conditions to be very poor, making travel extremely difficult. Because of these travel conditions we were only able to see 569 patients, not including any school children or other people that we provided care to on the road. Although the...
Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world. Sixty-nine percent of the population lives on less than $1 US a day. In Uganda when young girls begin their menstrual cycle they stay home from school when they have their periods because they lack feminine hygiene products (including underwear) and face stigmatism when they soil themselves. This means they miss at least four days per month,...
Have you ever felt the frustration that many of us feel at knowing what to buy for that “special someone” for Christmas, a gift for those who “have everything”. It is in the spirit of Christmas that we find ourselves opening our hearts to show love by the giving and receiving of gifts. Those of us who form the PHH family know what it is like to give freely of ourselves and...
We would like to thank everyone that supported the PHH open house in Southern Oregon this past week. There was a great turn-out of interested folks.
Many thanks to Caprice Vineyards - Jim and Jeanne Davidian - with their wonderful wines that they shared with us all.
Thank You to Ken Church for entertaining us with his delightful acoustic skills on the guitar and sharing this...
by Anne-Marie Summerhays, a registered nurse in Portland, regular PHH volunteer, PHH team leader, and sustaining donor.My first Project Helping Hands trip was to the Uyuni Salt Flats region of Bolivia, November 2007. It was an amazing adventure, as we traveled about 1000 miles in two weeks in jeeps and trucks over terrain that was rocky and dusty. For much of the way there was little that...
In 2010 Project Helping Hands (PHH) was asked by emergency response personnel and physicians in Bolivia to provide trainings on trauma and disaster/emergency response. PHH successfully sponsored three Emergency Medical seminars that year – one in March for policemen, firemen, first responders and doctors, and two more in July for policemen, firemen, first responders and physicians in the La Paz...
