Worldwide Outreach Services News Letter June 2003
www.outreach-services.org
The month of May was spent in Honduras working on various projects.
The first week of May was spent working on the mainland looking for
gifts for all of my wonderful contributors and exploring the
mainland of Honduras looking for other areas to expand our
projects. A meeting was held in LaCeiba with the Lisa Lopes
Foundation in hopes of working together on some projects in Honduras
and fundraising projects in the states.
Littlest Angels Program
Upon arriving in Roatan the first items of priority was to visit
with baby "K" the 6 week- old baby girl who weighed 3.5 lbs. I
delivered many donated items to Nancy who has started the program
the Littlest Angel. Baby "K" received so many donations from all
the caring people who learned of her story. Many of you who receive
this newsletter donated very special gifts to her that included
cloth diapers, baby formula, preemie clothing and all types of baby
care items. I really enjoyed my time with baby "K" holding,
cuddling and feeding her. I even enjoyed the diaper changes. She
is the cutest littlest baby I think I have ever held in my arms. I
also met Baby "K" s mother who was a very caring and loving mother.
She knew her baby was in trouble and made sure she received the
proper medical attention. She spent many hours with her baby
holding and loving her. She was also taught basic baby care and
signs to look for if she needed to take her to the hospital. With
all the love and donations she received she soon weighed over 6 lbs
and was returned home to live with her mother. Her mother continues
to take her to the hospital weekly for weight and physical check ups
to monitor her progress. But she is doing wonderful thanks to all
that helped.
Mud Angels Program
I also met a 15 year-old boy with size 17 feet. Thanks to donations
this young man now has shoes that actually fit his feet without
having to curl his toes up to wear shoes that are 2 sizes to
small. This also allows him to return to school wearing his brand
new shoes. He was a very nice young man and was very thankful for
his new shoes. He was worried that he would make his shoes dirty
and wanted to save them for special occasions. But it was decided
that 1 pair could be used for play and the other kept clean for
special occasions. We were very thankful that he was donated two
pairs of shoes instead of the one pair originally asked for so he
would have this option.
300 pairs of black school shoes were donated and delivered
throughout the island. Many or these children had no shoes to
wear. These shoes have helped many more children attend school.
Also the basketball hoop was donated to Coxen Hole School so the
children can again play basketball during their recess.
A printing project was started at the schools. Over 3000 pages of
printed materials are copied each day. This allows the teachers in
the schools to have more time teaching the students. Before the
donations of paper, and ink the teachers were having to hand write
all assignments for each student. Each assignment is typed in
Spanish and English so the students can be able to communicate
bilingually and also help their parents to learn a new language as
well. These assignment sheets are distributed throughout the island
to all the schools helping to keep the curriculum similar in each
classroom.
Families Saludables Program
The Families Saludables program is a very busy program. The HIV
rate is high in this area of Honduras and many children and families
are in need of this service. Valerie who organizes this program is
visiting patients all day long in their homes. She also brings
medications and baby care items to the families to help meet their
basic and nutritional needs. Most of these families prefer a home
visit so that others will not know of their HIV status by coming
into the office. The stigma of HIV is still great here and if it is
known that you have AIDS, you are shunned by the community.
Education is the key to helping people understand this disease.
Many items were also donated to this program by private donations
that help save the lives of these babies and children.
Miss Peggy's Clinic
Visits to Miss Peggy's Clinic were made and life there in the
mornings is very busy with patients who line up at her door starting
in the very early hours of the morning. Miss Peggy had a doctor
volunteering with his wife. They both were wonderful to have as an
extra pair of hands caring for all the various aliments and
conditions. There were also other volunteers including myself that
assisted in organizing patients and the donated medications for the
clinic. Many large boxes were sorted and placed in their respective
places. All these medicines were from people who donate them to
this organization.
We also went to the grand opening of the New Punta Gorda clinic.
This new clinic is now funded by the World Health Organization,
USAIDS, and the Episcopal Church. The program was wonderful and had
many school age children dancing and singing for entertainment and
education. The Ministry of Health spoke as well as many other
people from Honduras and other organizations in the states. This
clinic will be treating the East End of the island for all medical
problems as well as HIV. Worldwide Outreach Services will still
contribute medicines to this program as needed. Through Peggy's
hard work visiting all the clinics and donating the needed medicines
to all.
Construction has been started for the new Sandy Bay Clinic. The
footers are in and the new road is being constructed. This has been
in the works for some time. Miss Peggy has been working out of her
home seeing patients and soon there will be a nice new clinic with a
community building attached to help the people of Roatan.
Much work has been done for a little girl who needs surgery in the
United States. Many papers and phone calls made by Miss Peggy to
make a great change in this little girls life.
Wish List
New office for Families Saludables
Donations for the current construction of the clinic in Sandy Bay
Over the counter children's medicines and antibiotics
Infant and children's vitamins
Copy paper for the printing projects at the schools
Businesses to donate items as gifts for members of WOS such as t-
shirts, coffee, and carvings
Monetary donations for shipping
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:
Jackson Shipping: For all their assistance in shipping thousands of
pounds of donations to Roatan
http://www.jacksonshipping.com/
Roatanet: For their formation of the web site and continued support
http://www.roatanet.com/
Lees Kids Sneakers: For their donations of hundreds of pairs of
children's school shoes and basketball goal for the school
http://www.lees-sneakers.com/
The Judas Bird: For donating a portion of book sales made through
WOS website.
Tennis Warehouse for their donations of 2 pairs size 17 of NIKE
Tennis shoes.
http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/
Tropicana Resort for their free lodging during this trip in May and
for hosting other volunteers.
http://www.tropicanabc.com/
So Tropic for their generous contributions and support
sewtropic.....com
Database Creations for their business and database support
http://www.createdatabase.com/
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