02/23/2023
We are long past due on updating what we have been doing since COVID-19 gripped the world.
2020:
The worldwide lockdown prevented travel and shipping of supplies to the Philippines mission. In August, a large Balikbayan Box filled to the brim with over-the-counter medications for children and adults was shipped and successfully received.
Our founder seized the opportunity to put her nursing skills into practice caring for our suffering Native American people in Arizona and New Mexico.
2021:
As the lockdown raged on in parts of the world, we focused our efforts on coaching the Philippines mission staff on organizing, creating, and distributing home medication kits. Another fully loaded Balikbayan Box was shipped to continue providing needed medications to the people.
2022:
We quickly sought ways we could help as war broke out in Ukraine. We found a partnership with a like-minded organization, United Help Ukraine. Multiple shipments of requested battlefield medical items, hospital supplies, infant formula, and over-the-counter medications for adults and children were sent thanks to this liaison.
09/13/2019
This is how my day started. At 0735, Kristi, came to me and the other nurse visiting here, asking us to see a baby. This baby was gravely ill in the government hospital, 5 months old, with fever and severe diarrhea. Kristi visited this baby girl and her grandmother in the hospital. This morning the grandmother came to the mission with the baby asking for help. She has full care of the baby whose parents are 17 and 20 and are taking no responsibility. The grandmother who is elderly is her sole caretaker and has no money. No work. No income. No help. The doctor at the government hospital gave the grandmother a can of powdered formula for the baby. She is down to the last scoop and has no money to buy more. It costs $12 USD and lasted a week. This is extremely expensive for her and she has no way to now feed the baby. She cries as she tells us the story. This is a common occurrence here. Because Nightingale Nurses shipped cans of infant formula donated to us by a pediatrician in Virginia, we were able to provide this grandmother with the formula for her granddaughter. We gave her just enough to get her to return with the baby to the clinic here on base so we can check on the baby. We, too, have limitations which is why we need your donations of funds and items. This is what we are doing. This is how you are helping. Together we may have saved a baby’s life and brought hope to a scared and hopeless grandmother. Thank you!
09/19/2019