Project HOPE (ealth pportunities for P eople E everywhere ) is an international health care organization established in the United States in 1958. The most notable aspect is the SS HOPE , the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from USS Consolation -15))). SS HOPE retired in 1974, after sailing to Indonesia, South Vietnam, Peru, Ecuador, Guinea, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Tunisia, Jamaica and Brazil. On this trip doctors, nurses, and technical staff provide medical care and training to people in every country visited.
SS HOPE is not replaced, and the emphasis entirely switches to land-based operations. There are currently organizations in Germany and the United Kingdom, in addition to native organizations in the United States. The HOPE project assists different developing countries in efforts to combat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. They also help educate parents about how to prevent and treat diseases for their children and themselves, and also train health professionals. The HOPE project also establishes village health banks, which provide small loans to women so they can improve the health and health of their families. The village health bank also educates women about health.
Project HOPE is headquartered in Carter Hall in Millwood, Virginia.
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Project HOPE is working to achieve sustainable progress in health care worldwide by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance in the areas of need. Project HOPE is unique among international organizations as we are constantly working across the health spectrum in settings, from family and community levels to tertiary care levels, traditional infant shaman training and community health volunteers where limited resources and heart surgeons and biomedical engineers where technology is right. Project HOPE discusses infectious diseases, health professional education, women's and children's health, humanitarian assistance, and the need for health systems and facilities.
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Project HOPE has programs in the following countries:
Africa
- Benin
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Tonga
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Belize
- Brazil
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Peru
Asia and the Pacific
- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
Central and Eastern Europe
- Albanian
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Bosnia & amp; Herzegovina
- Kosovo
- Macedonia
- Poland
- Romanian
- Ukraine
Middle East
- Egypt Russia/Central Asia Region (CAR)
- Armenia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkey
- Antigua
- Colombia
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Ghana
- Haiti
- Kiribati
- Liberia
- Marshall Islands
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Tonga
- Solomon Islands
- Western Samoa
- Vietnam
- 2005 - When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, HOPE sent a team of volunteer medical responses to the area, where they provided care to people in need.
- 2006 - HOPE continues to provide assistance to people on the Gulf Coast hit by Hurricane Katrina. In the spring of 2006, they helped staff of US Navy hospital ships, known as Mercy, with volunteer doctors and nurses to South Asia.
- 2008 - Chief Operations Officer Project HOPE, C. William Fox Jr., BG, USA (ret), was injured by IED in Basra where the organization helped in building a new Children's Hospital.
- 2010 - In response to the January earthquake in Haiti, Project HOPE helped coordinate volunteer medical staff to fill out a complement of USNS Comfort.
- Mercy Ships
- HOPE project web page
- Project HOPE: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad
- Parade Magazine article
- The Charity Navigator Profile of the HOPE Project
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