President’s Pen Additional Ways Your support will save You Can Help Save Lives lives because 92% of all Dear HOPEgiver, expenditures go directly to 1. Planned Giving 2. Join Our Circle of HOPE those in need! In the face of crisis, HOPE is there. Consider creating a Charitable Gift The Circle of HOPE giving club is a For more than five decades, the world has turned to Project HOPE Annuity with Project HOPE by making a special group of individuals committed in times of disaster. In times of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, gift and receiving a lifetime of payments to improving international health by tsunamis and other natural disasters, HOPE is there. In , back that you can never outlive and providing Project HOPE a steady, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and even the United States, that will never change. Consider also reliable source of funding. By joining including Project HOPE in your will the Circle with your monthly gift—in W I N T E R 2 0 1 1 HOPE is present in time of need. or estate plans in whatever way might any amount you choose—you’ll never be appropriate. For more information, have to remember to write a check or A NEW WEB SITE Nature is not the cause of all crises. Often there are unseen crises, please call Barbara Kabakoff at fill in a renewal form. Most importantly, like the devastation an illness such as pneumonia can have on a 1-800-544-4673. your monthly gift will reduce our Project HOPE has population. In South America, pneumonia is the #1 killer. administrative costs, meaning even more launched a new and of your money will go directly to helping improved Web site that In the face of silent crises such as illness and chronic disease, HOPE save lives. Sources: makes it easier to learn is there too. Working with partners such as Merck & Co., Inc. and www.healthaffairs.org about our work around For more information about Planned Giving or our Circle of HOPE, www.projecthope.org the world. the government of , together with Project HOPE we will save the lives of millions through an aggressive vaccination program please call 1-800-544-4673 today. Thank you. At www.projecthope.org, that is featured in this newsletter. you will find the latest news, dispatches from I encourage you to read this newsletter and learn about all that volunteers in the field, HOPE does in the face of crisis. As you read these heroic stories, HOPE and the U.S. Navy video reports and step-by- know that your generous support has made all this possible. step details on how you can When Project HOPE volunteers went The partnerships will continue in Without you, there would be no HOPE when crisis strikes. get involved. And it is all to Haiti aboard the USNS Comfort to 2011. The Continuing Promise 2011 delivered in a crisp, easy- help survivors of the 2010 earthquake, mission will bring HOPE volunteers to-navigate new format. Thank you for your unfailing and selfless support. it marked one of the latest in a series and the Comfort to nine nations of collaborations with the U.S. Navy. in the Caribbean and Central and Sincerely yours, Project HOPE began partnering South America. And the mission with the Navy in 2005 to respond Pacific Partnership will bring the to medical crises in the wake of the USS Cleveland and HOPE volunteers Indian Ocean tsunami. to Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New , East Timor and Micronesia JOHN P. HOWE, III, M.D. Since 2005, more than 1,000 Project in the Pacific Ocean. Both missions President and CEO HOPE volunteers have participated in aim to bring improved health care 19 humanitarian assistance and health to underserved populations and to education missions in partnership with prepare for and respond to potential the Navy. health crises.

2 HUMANITARIAN AID Healing in the Wake of Disaster 5 HOPE’s New Web Site

3 Building a New Haiti 5 PRESIDENT’S PEN HOPE is Present in Time of Need

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4 INDONESIA Improving Health Care for Women and Children 6 Ways to Help Build a Healthier World 4 Stopping Latin America’s Deadliest Disease

HOPE NEWS WINTER 2011 PAGE 5 Healing in the Wake of Disaster A New Haiti Fighting Cholera Improving Health Care for Women and Children

The earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province in 2008 Each morning the people of the ruined in Haiti When the mother of two in the Nagan Raya district of Indonesia heard that Project HOPE did its damage in an instant. Its effects, though, continue to neighborhoods around the Adventist was training community health workers, she jumped at the chance to participate. It began with a trickle of patients be felt years later. Hospital in southern Haiti gather to take part in the slow, painstaking process of arriving at hospitals near the Haitian The training program is part of HOPE’s efforts in the she ran for and won election to the district legislature. rebuilding their shattered nation. town of Mirebalais, weakened by aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to improve “Hopefully, by being a legislative member, Project HOPE has been collaborating with China’s Ministry of Health to provide health care for women and children in the region. HOPE I will inspire the community and help improve the quality greater access to quality rehabilitation services for the more than 70,000 people injured relentless vomiting and diarrhea. trains women like Iriani to provide health services and of health services,” she said. The earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 left a by the earthquake. Many of those survivors need long-term, specialized rehabilitative educate their neighbors about vaccinations, managing million people homeless and badly damaged the nation’s childhood illnesses and the benefits of breastfeeding. care for the injuries they suffered as a result of the earthquake. HOPE’s China health infrastructure. Near the hospital, Project HOPE Rehabilitation Medicine Program is making available a greater range of physical and is working with local residents to build a Rehabilitation VOLUNTEERS HELP “I wanted to learn more about health care and assist occupational therapy and psychological support. The program is also strengthening Center that will provide care for the thousands injured in TREAT 7,006 PATIENTS people in obtaining health services in the village,” national standards for training rehabilitation professionals, promising to improve the quake. “I want to help as much as possible to make a IN NICARAGUA. Iriani said. The program has had a dramatic impact new Haiti,” said Joseph Charles, 21, a Haitian who is an services for years to come, not just in Sichuan Province, but throughout China. on Indonesian women and children. More than 2,000 interpreter and site manager on the project. PATIENTS TREATED volunteers from some 400 villages have received training and thousands of children and pregnant women have 7,006 received care. In Nagan Raya, the percentage of children immunized against deadly diseases climbed from SURGERIES PERFORMED 5 percent in 2005 to 53 percent in 2010.

149 The program’s impact on Iriani was equally dramatic. She credits her training with boosting her confidence in her MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDED ability to make a difference in her community. In 2009, 22,613 They were the first wave of a cholera epidemic that has engulfed Haiti in recent months, adding yet more misery HEALTH EDUCATION to a nation trying to recover from the earthquake of Project HOPE’s humanitarian assistance programs go beyond meeting immediate CONTACTS PROVIDED January 2010. needs to make long-term commitments to improve health care in regions where help Stopping Latin America’s Deadliest Disease 31,343 is most desperately needed. In Indonesia, ravaged by the 2004 tsunami, HOPE staff Expert Aid in an Epidemic and volunteers continue to provide health education and training that is resulting in Project HOPE volunteers, already engaged in the effort Pneumonia is Latin America’s number-one killer, and nowhere is it more lethal than in dramatic increases in the numbers of children being immunized against deadly diseases. to care for survivors of the earthquake, fought back remote, poverty-stricken towns like Wamblan, in the mountains of northern Nicaragua. More than 10,000 Haitians need long-term rehabilitative against the cholera outbreak. In November, Project In earthquake-stricken Haiti, HOPE will launch a multi-year rehabilitation medicine care. Some 4,000 lost arms or legs, and in some cases HOPE deployed an international team of cholera experts Families there live in close quarters, with adults and program, even in remote locales like Wamblan. Four years both, to amputations. In addition, many more experienced children crowding into single rooms. Access to health ago, HOPE established a maternal care center there. program to help more than 10,000 patients requiring long-term care, including more to train Haitian health care professionals to care for the complications from their operations, and require long- growing numbers suffering from cholera. The team from facilities is limited. Pneumococcal disease, which kills 1.6 Today, many of the women served by that center are than 4,000 amputees. term care. Project HOPE volunteers have been working the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research million each year worldwide, thrives in conditions like these. helping to spread the word about the need to vaccinate in makeshift clinics and hospitals around Haiti to provide in Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) worked with Project HOPE Caring for Those in Need care. In one clinic in Deschapelles, volunteers fitted 300 volunteers and representatives from the United States But in places like Wamblan, Project HOPE is fighting HOPE’s humanitarian assistance programs also protect the most vulnerable. In patients for prosthetic limbs in seven weeks. Agency of International Development (USAID) to bring back against pneumonia, working with Nicaragua’s Nicaragua, thanks to a generous donation of vaccines from Merck & Co., Inc., HOPE their expertise and experience to clinics and hospitals health ministry to provide the PNEUMOVAX 23 vaccine, is working with Nicaragua’s health ministry to vaccinate more than one million people, A Powerful Sign of Hope across Haiti. donated by Merck & Co., Inc., to the people who need including children, the elderly and people with HIV/AIDS, against pneumococcal What is lacking is a dedicated space for rehabilitative it most. It is part of an ambitious program that aims to disease, Latin America’s number-one killer. services. A team of experts from Massachusetts General Cholera is a bacterial infection that draws liquid away vaccinate more than one million Nicaraguans. In the fall of Hospital dispatched by Project HOPE to evaluate needs in from the body’s cells. With proper care, it is easily cured. 2010, HOPE and the health ministry administered nearly Haiti recommended focusing on rehabilitation needs for But amid the devastation that followed the earthquake, 200,000 doses of the vaccine across Nicaragua. In the Dominican Republic, HOPE teamed with BD, Merck and Sanofi Pasteur to deliver survivors of the quake. The Rehabilitation Center at the the disease spread rapidly. HOPE’s training teams brought some $27 million worth of vaccines and supplies in the wake of tropical storms that Adventist Hospital will include medical facilities as well as with them trucks loaded with medical supplies for the Spreading the Word about Vaccinations left 50,000 homeless and killed more than 100. The vaccines helped protect 1 million housing for patients and international volunteers. treatment and prevention of cholera, including antibiotics, Preventing infection is more critical than ever because against pneumonia. “People have accepted the vaccine Dominicans, mostly children, from illnesses such as influenza, diphtheria and pneumonia. IV solutions, oral rehydration salts and antibacterial hand pneumococcal infections are becoming more resistant because they understand the benefit,” Dr. Mario Ortega, As the walls of the new buildings rose this winter, they gels. In the Haitian town of Desdunes, near the epicenter to common antibiotics, making them more difficult and Project HOPE’s director in Nicaragua said through a Project HOPE has delivered nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance around the provided a small but powerful sign of hope for the of the cholera outbreak, Project HOPE has delivered more costly to treat. Project HOPE’s previous efforts in translator. “That’s one of our great achievements. It means Haitians working on the Rehabilitation Center. $200,000 of medical supplies. Nicaragua have helped prepare the way for the vaccination new life for people.” world, and more than $100 million in 2009 alone. HOPE NEWS WINTER 2011 HOPENEWS WINTER 2011 HOPENEWS WINTER 2011 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4