Adopt a Program

Health Bridges International helps to facilitate projects and programs through our various international partners.  We often have specific programs that require funding and resources. 

To learn more about the current programs that HBI is working on, please contact us at: info@HBInt.org

A short list of current programs:

1. Water Filtration Units – plans call for the placement of water purifications in Nicaragua, Peru and the Amazon in 2007 and 2008.
   
2. Medical and Dental Outreach – we will be partnering with Peruvian physicians and dentists to offer healthcare services to communities of need.  Our work is around sustainable healthcare outreach and community development through public health programming.
   
3. Scholarships - The HBI Scholarship program is designed toward creating opportunities from health care professionals in developing nations to gain the skills and knowledge to serve the people of their own country. You can help to advance the career of future leaders – a simple $25-50 per month commitment will allow you to support a medical, dental, nursing, public health and health professions student to make a big difference in lives of their people.
   
4. Alto Cayma Nutrition Program: Reaching out in a time of great need
   The Mission of Alto Cayma, Peru run by Father Alex Busuttil currently provides meals to almost 800 people per day. There are an estimated 33,000 people in this poor parish and the need for daily feeding programs is closer to 5,000 people per day. The nutritious meals are provided mainly to children and the elderly. Food is prepared in one large kitchen, and delivered to various distribution points throughout the settlement. In some instances, meals are delivered directly to the homes of elderly and medically fragile individuals in a Meals on Wheels model of care facilitation.
   The cost of the feeding program has risen dramatically in the past year. It costs almost $150 per person per year to provide 2 nutritious meals per day 5 days per week. However, as costs continue to rise and resources become more and more scarce it is harder and harder for the Mission to meet the needs of the community.
   HBI, working in collaboration with the Peruvian non-governmental organization Sirviendo Logrando Paz and the Mission of Alto Cayma, hopes to reach 1,200 people before the end of 2008.
   
   YOU CAN HELP
   • Sponsor a person for an entire year of holistic care nutrition, medical visits, and social worker assistance - $200 U.S. Dollars
   • Sponsor a family for one year - $150
   • Help to raise $20,500 to bring current kitchen facilities to full capacity within the next 12 months.
   
5. Professional Development Program: Help to train the next generation of Peruvian healthcare professionals
   HBI is committed to helping train the next generation of healthcare professionals serving the impoverished and marginalized of developing countries. To this end, HBI has developed a “Health Professions Scholarship Program” and invested in the on-going facilitation of training symposiums and health professions conferences.
   You can help to support the work of HBI by sponsoring a health professions student (an example of a monthly cost for dental school training is $300 U.S. Dollars) or by helping to support a training conference.
   
   YOU CAN HELP –
   • “Adopt” a training symposium workshop: $50.00
   • Support a health professions student: $50.00-300.00 per month
6. Street Youth Project: Sponsor a “Well” Child Examination
   The HBI schools based outreach program is designed toward reaching into the poorest communities – areas where families are at greatest risk of breaking down. The schools based outreach program focuses their work on geographic areas in the country of Peru where economic depravity and social violence fracture family stability; areas where the children that live on the streets of Lima are coming from.
   The HBI schools outreach program works to identify youth who are at greatest risk for homelessness – and connect these children to outreach workers. The outreach/social workers then build trust and relationship with the family unit to provide a broad range of services that are designed at keeping the family from fracturing. As is the case in most developing nations, the community schools of rural and impoverished communities are often the strongest element of the social network. Partnering with teachers and community leaders enables the schools program to build a “safety net” in communities that are extremely vulnerable to economic and political ebbs and flows.
   Working in collaboration with Peruvian physicians and dentists, HBI brings teams of healthcare providers into impoverished communities and provides medical, dental and social care. The cost per child to provide comprehensive medical, dental and health education services is approximately $5.00 U.S. Dollars (the cost includes: medications, dental supplies, health education materials, transportation expenses, and vitamins for every child).
   
   Download Street Youth Project (PDF file)
   
   YOU CAN HELP -
   • Bring comprehensive medical, dental, and preventive healthcare services to an underserved community by supporting TEN WELLNESS EXAMINATIONS at a cost of $50.00.