Hospitals Of Hope

"I'll Never Be the Same."
by Jennifer Kessler

I’ve spent the last month in Peru and Bolivia with the organization Water for People, working my way east in a line from Lima towards the Amazon basin.  But when I volunteer at HOH next week, Vinto will not be the end of the line.  Rather, I will be coming full circle to a place where God deeply touched me seven years ago, when I volunteered there before.  He used those three weeks and the example of the people I met to make me think about how I could serve him with my whole life.
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Not Being Afraid to Love
by Brianna Brown

Today an abuelita (grandmother) got on the bus with her nieta (granddaughter), and she only had 1 boliviano for the ride, which costs 2 bolivianos for them both. I wasn't going to give her mine, since I only had one, and only large bills after that. But I decided to swallow my fear.  
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Caring for Bolivian Orphans
by Minna Chen

Victor, Mario, David, Jhoanna, Jheison, Oscar, Beto, Denis, Josue, Cristian, Junior, Fernando, Mailene, Annelise, Fabiola. These fifteen children live in a three-bedroom orphanage surrounded by oxen-plowed lettuce and flower fields in the rural mountain village of Combuyo, Bolivia. I met them as a volunteer with Hospitals of Hope and had the privilege of visiting them to help provide free checkups, tutoring, and most importantly, entertainment.
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Lessons in Bolivia
by Juliana Hardy

I do not want to be a doctor. I am fully aware of that. I have been toying around with the idea of nursing, and going to Bolivia really helped to reinforce the possibility. My very first day, I watched a surgery while wearing full scrubs.
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Sharing Hope in Bolivia
by Amy Van Proosdy

This last summer, I, along with five other students from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, spent nine weeks volunteering at Hospitales de Esperanza (Hospitals of Hope) in the poverty-stricken city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is hard to put in words the extent my life was changed because of the experiences and interactions I had in Bolivia.
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Dental Outreaches in Bolivia
by Kok-Tow Ng

As I was getting ready for dental clinic this morning, Iris told me that we might not be able to have the outreach as our trufi driver (Manuel) was not able to get to us due to the road blockade.
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Renewal in Haiti
by Leta Reppert

A crowd began to assemble as the sun set on a balmy evening in February in Les Cayes, Haiti. As it grew darker, the crowd swelled to close to 1,000, drawn by the vibrant music of local church worship teams, singing over the hum of the generators powering the floodlights.
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Lessons in Trust
by Fatima Neves Ferreira

First of all I would like to mention God’s amazing provision. Choosing a place to go on elective can seem so daunting but God is faithful and He never fails to guide us through His word and His people.
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Wheelbarrow Medicine
by D.L. Paige, MPAS, PA-C

The frail Bolivian man carried his even frailer Bolivian friend like a big collection of potatoes in a gunnysack over his tiny four-foot tall shoulder into the rural Hospitals of Hope clinic. With a urinary catheter-bag flapping like a flag in a Kansas wind, this Samaritan of Bolivia gently laid his crippled friend on the simple exam table.
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Memoirs of an HOH Volunteer, Winter 2004
by Phil Song

The past three months have certainly been an adventure, whether at the clinic, at the guest house, or in the city. All of my journaling and writing can only capture and record a fraction of the things that I have seen, done, and learned in my time here.
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Mercy
by Michael Wawrzewski

This is the story of a 32-year-old farmer that was brought into the Hospitals of Hope clinic on August 13, 2002. He was carried in on a blanket by some friends stating that he had injured himself two days prior while plowing a field.
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Opening the Clinic in Bolivia
by Leta Reppert

In early 2001, Hospitals of Hope seemed at the point of collapse. Donated funds had allowed us to remodel a small clinic in Bolivia, but we lacked the financial resources to operate it.
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