Check out today's issue of the Daily Pennsylvanian! Page 5 features a story about our trip and our blogging efforts.
(Read the electronic version here: Daily Pennsylvanian: A trip to heal - and blog.)
To those Penn students and faculty who found out about us through the DP article: Bienvenidos! We hope you enjoy reading about our work, and remember to check back often for updates!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
We need YOUR help!
Hello again!
As I mentioned in my last post, the students in our small group are going to be collecting suitcases full of medical and health care supplies to bring with us to Honduras. Of course, we need all of the help we can get, so I'm posting the tentative list here in the hopes that some of our lovely readers (this means you!) will be inspired to donate supplies.
Women's Health Needs:
Supplies: Supplies for Birth Kits:
Please, feel free to pass this list on to anyone and everyone you can think of. We'll appreciate any help we can get!
Thank you SO MUCH for reading, and feel free to use the comments section to brainstorm or give us suggestions for places to solicit donations from...
Hasta Pronto!
As I mentioned in my last post, the students in our small group are going to be collecting suitcases full of medical and health care supplies to bring with us to Honduras. Of course, we need all of the help we can get, so I'm posting the tentative list here in the hopes that some of our lovely readers (this means you!) will be inspired to donate supplies.
We are in need of the following...
***APRIL UPDATE*** In addition to the list below, STS has sent out a special request for the following critical supplies:
Original Supply List:
Over-the-counter medications:
***APRIL UPDATE*** In addition to the list below, STS has sent out a special request for the following critical supplies:
- Alcohol wipes***
- Slings***
- Sterilization Bags***
- Thermometer covers***
- Casting tape***
- 10 cc syringes
- Knee Immobilizers
- Newborn baby hats
- Spacers and Masks for Inhalers
- Tennis elbow splints
- HP Laser Printer Cartridge (12A Q2612A)
- Table paper
- Ace Wraps
- Nebulizer masks for kids and adults
- Leg bags for foleys
- 2” stockinette
- BP cuffs-automatic is preferable
- Air casts
- Canes
- Yankauer suction tubing
- Crutches (for small adults)
- Thumb spica splints
- Lexmark 16 (color) printer cartridges
- Cock up wrist splints, all sizes
- Condoms
Original Supply List:
Over-the-counter medications:
- Neosporin / Other antibiotic ointments
- Tylenol (Adult / Children's / Infant)
- Colace
- Diarrhea medicine - Lomotil, Pepto-Bismol
- Advil
- Vitamins (Adult / Women's / Prenatal / Children's / Infant / Chewable)
- Robitussin
- Sudafed
- Aspirin
- Nix or Rid (for lice)
- Lotromin / Anti-Fungal / Scabies / Ring Worm topicals
- Tooth brushes / Small tooth paste / Small mouth washes
- Small hand soaps
- Oral Contraceptive Pills
- Condoms
- Monistat / Gynelotromin
- Flagyl zithromax
- Medications for treating STIs
- Gloves
- Tape
- Telfa pads
- Gauze
- Suture kits
- Baby undershirts
- Hats & Socks for infants
- Receiving Blankets
- Scissors (bandage or suturing or other)
- Shoe Laces (for cord tying)
- Alcohol Swabs
- Antibacterial soap (the kind that does not require water!)
- Bulb syringes
- Paper or Cloth diapers
Please, feel free to pass this list on to anyone and everyone you can think of. We'll appreciate any help we can get!
Thank you SO MUCH for reading, and feel free to use the comments section to brainstorm or give us suggestions for places to solicit donations from...
Hasta Pronto!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Bienvenidos!
Welcome.
In a little over three short months, we'll be leaving for what promises to be an amazing, life/career/worldview-changing trip to Honduras. Our activities on the ground will be coordinated by Shoulder to Shoulder, a non-profit organization that has organized health-service brigades in Honduras for over a decade. I encourage you to explore their site and learn about all of the wonderful work they facilitate: hopefully it will make you as excited as we are about this opportunity!
But, first things first. We've got a lot of preparation to do in the next three months: a ton of reading, improving our understanding of health disparities in Latin America, building our popular education skills, group teaching projects that we'll hopefully utilize on the ground in Honduras. Y, por supuesto, practicando nuestro Espanol!
I think I speak for all of us (hope that's okay, amigas!) when I say that we want this blog to be as interactive as possible. We'd love to hear your comments, suggestions, questions as we prepare for the journey ahead; when we're in Honduras and travelling via rusty pick-up trucks to the Honduran heartland, muriendo de calor, your thoughts and words will surely become even more precious to us.
So, while we get cracking on our papers, projects, and piles of reading, we have a homework assignment for you, too: We need to solicit donations of health care supplies to bring down with us in May. What better way to show your support for our work than to ship us off in style with desperately-needed items like gloves, medicine, tools, and baby blankets?
Stay tuned for a new post with a list of everything we're hoping to take with us!
Gracias in advance for taking this journey with us.
In a little over three short months, we'll be leaving for what promises to be an amazing, life/career/worldview-changing trip to Honduras. Our activities on the ground will be coordinated by Shoulder to Shoulder, a non-profit organization that has organized health-service brigades in Honduras for over a decade. I encourage you to explore their site and learn about all of the wonderful work they facilitate: hopefully it will make you as excited as we are about this opportunity!
But, first things first. We've got a lot of preparation to do in the next three months: a ton of reading, improving our understanding of health disparities in Latin America, building our popular education skills, group teaching projects that we'll hopefully utilize on the ground in Honduras. Y, por supuesto, practicando nuestro Espanol!
I think I speak for all of us (hope that's okay, amigas!) when I say that we want this blog to be as interactive as possible. We'd love to hear your comments, suggestions, questions as we prepare for the journey ahead; when we're in Honduras and travelling via rusty pick-up trucks to the Honduran heartland, muriendo de calor, your thoughts and words will surely become even more precious to us.
So, while we get cracking on our papers, projects, and piles of reading, we have a homework assignment for you, too: We need to solicit donations of health care supplies to bring down with us in May. What better way to show your support for our work than to ship us off in style with desperately-needed items like gloves, medicine, tools, and baby blankets?
Stay tuned for a new post with a list of everything we're hoping to take with us!
Gracias in advance for taking this journey with us.
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