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A Cry for HELP

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:50:16 -0400

This is the story of a 1 year 2 month old boy born to an 18 year old mother on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. This report/plea for assistance came in recently from a Philippine Physician at one of the remote rural clinics HELP visited during "Needs Assessment" operatio...

2nd Year - Regional Disaster Exercise

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:46:45 -0400

HELP has once again (2nd year) been invited to participate in a regional disaster exercise that brings together federal, state and municipal emergency teams as well as non-governmental agencies and multiple universities. Under contract with researchers at the Bio Design Institute at ASU, HELP’s role is to...
Well... it have been a while since I have offered any updates here. Recent travels to the Philippines and the HUGE effort now underway there, have admittedly kept me quite overwhelmed with work. Although none of that is really a good excuse for the lack of communication, the following explanation of my activities should - hopefully - provide understandable insight.

My recent travels were originally focused on performing "Needs Assessments" in the small rural clinics on some of the 7600 islands that comprise the Philippines. Initial assessments we per...

Violence in Kenya - Can you help?

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:46:12 -0500

Hello Friends,

I am sad to include this latest update for your review today. As you may know HELP has supported a water purification operation in the southwest area of Kenya with a village water purification system and the training to operate it safely and effectively. We have also been visited here in Arizona by other native Kenya relief agency personnel and have received numerous pleas for assistance.

The following letter came in just this morning from Pastor John Obyo Njoni. John has operated an outreach to orphans and has requested our...

HELP's Global Telemedicine

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:27:26 -0500

Scenes from various H.E.L.P. mobile medical clinics & telemedicine efforts from various efforts.