By: August Longino, Timmy Medical Brigade Coordinator, Tena, Ecuador Many of Ecuador’s health challenges stem from one chronic problem: underfunded, ineffective institutions. This includes not only the major hospitals, but also medical schools, the ministry of public health, and at the most basic level, emergency response. In the developed world, we take it for granted [...]
By: Jess Reichard, Medical Project Assistant – Guatemala With a mixture of apprehension, excitement, and immense amounts of pasta, Anna, myself, and a 5 Pop Wuj volunteers ventured out to Buena Vista to cook a massive meal at the home of our favorite local midwife, Doña Ana. There to greet us sat, stood, and meandered [...]
By Maria Alatorre IU Trip Participant “It is so easy to incorrectly assume that because you do more, or because you have more, that you are more”, Dr. Ronny Alvarado Gamarro told us as he looked around the small room at Los Olivos Hotel. It was Monday night, a few hours after our very first [...]
A comparison of trainings in Guatemala and Washington By: Anna Pollock, Medical Project Coordinator – Guatemala Earlier in the year, I wrote a post called “Conversations with Midwives in Quetzaltenango” which detailed two focus groups conducted in January with traditional midwives working in Guatemala. In this post, I describe the context in which many traditional [...]
By: Matt MacGregor In the far northwest of the Dominican Republic, just miles from the Haitian border and a universe away from the five star resorts and tourism that powers much of the Dominican Republic’s economy, a small, innovative agricultural cooperative is working to improve the quality of life of low-income Dominicans and Haitian migrants. [...]
By: Jess Reichard This week, members of Timmy’s Guatemala team visited La Victoria and Buena Vista, two communities participating in the NutriButter program here in Xela. While the act of visiting these two wonderful places is no longer new – we’ve been running monthly meetings since last July when Dr. Meg Sullivan started the program [...]
By Jackie Kercheval, Tufts Timmy Chapter Member, Participant in the Tufts Guatemala Brigade, January 7-14, 2012 I had been told that trips with Timmy Global Health are “life-changing” and “so inspiring,” and I would be lying if I said that I truly believed that at first. I was worried that for some reason, maybe the [...]
By: Anna Pollock One of the main goals of the Health Capacity Building Grant in Quetzaltenango is to improve the quality of care that Guatemalan midwives working in our target communities are able to give to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. We have been working with the midwives in each of the communities [...]
By: Jessica Reichard Just as the holidays were approaching in Guatemala, Pop Wuj and Timmy initiated a brand new group of mothers and babies into our ongoing Supplemental Nutrition, or “NutriMantequilla” Program, as it is affectionately called. These 16 new families joined us mostly from Llanos de Pinal and Tierra Colorada, two rural, mostly Mayan [...]
Excerpts from the Greater Louisville Medical Society, VOL. 59, NO. 7, December 2011 By: Raymond Orthober, MD and Brett Rossow, University of Louisville School of Medicine Timmy Student Leader The Clinics Each day our team would travel for upwards of two hours to clinic destinations, perched sometimes precariously, in buses, trucks or motorized jungle boats. Upon arrival in [...]
Published in PAMF Connections, November 18, 2011 Joseph Schwartz, M.D., a family medicine doctor at the Fremont Center, writes about his impressions and experiences during a recent medical service trip to Ecuador with his son, Jared, and the University of Notre Dame Timmy team. I woke up with a startle and a feeling like [...]
Children from Indy share a special message with the children of Tena, Ecuador By: Kathy Morris, Programs Coordinator Photos By: August Longino, Medical Brigade Coordinator – Tena This October, local Indy kids learned what it means to be a child with a difficult health condition in the developing world. These kids listened to the stories [...]
By: Anna Pollock, Medical Project Coordinator, Guatemala This fall has been a time of new beginnings here in Xela! After months of daily rains and few hours of sun shine, the rain has finally subsided giving way to warm, clear days and a renewed optimism that can be hard to find amidst so much grey [...]
By: Scott Pegg, Bebor Project Liaison, smpegg@iupui.edu Although it initially started as a project focused largely on bringing the benefits of primary education to children in the rural Niger Delta, Timmy’s work with the Bebor Model Nursery and Primary School has increasingly turned in the direction of providing sustainable public health interventions that will benefit the hundreds [...]
Timmy students really are building healthy futures By: Kathy Morris, Programs Coordinator Timmy is growing, our international impact is expanding, and our number of student chapters is increasing. Even more impressive than all this growth, however, is the deepening of impact that is taking place across university campuses here in the US and at our [...]