About P4GH
Our Mission: Facilitating Global Health and Wellness through Collaboration
Partners 4 Global Health has four main areas of focus:
- Engagement - We lead Medical Outreach Trips to remote and underserved communities.
- Education - We partner with local hospitals for Surgical, Educational and Construction Trips.
- Exchange - We provide Medical Professional Exchange Programs.
- Equipment - We sponsor Medical Equipment Donations.
Medical Outreach Mission Trip January 18-26, 2020. We travelled to Bluefields, Nicaragua and provided preventive health education and basic medical and dental care to people in underserved remote areas on the Caribbean coast. Please consider supporting future teams with a financial contribution by clicking on the donate button at the bottom of this page.
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
The travel story of our first 40 foot Container full of Medical Equipment and Supplies in 2020
A LONG JOURNEY
Bringing Donated Supplies to Bluefields.
As part of our stated mission, Partners 4 Global Health provides medical equipment to medical professionals and centers in Nicaragua. Over the past year, we have been collecting donated medical supplies and equipment from Roper St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, SC and others. These supplies were delivered to the Health Department of Bluefields for distribution to the Bluefields Hospital, BICU ( the local medical school) and the regional health centers.
Susan Weick, one of our dedicated volunteers, spent hours and hours working on this project. Through the efforts of Susan and our team, we filled a 40 ft. container with medical supplies and surgical equipment collected from the greater Charleston area that was shipped to Nicaragua.
The logistical process to get this from Charleston to Bluefields was not an easy one. After traveling on the ship Spirit of Shanghai from Charleston to Corinto, Nicaragua, the container sat in Nicaragua clearing customs for a couple of months (delayed by COVID), but was ultimately cleared for its cross country trip from Managua to Bluefields. Alvaro Ibarra and his team began the journey alongside the large truck. Upon arrival in Juigalapa, they discovered the bridge collapsed just shortly before their arrival (all are safe). After a 24 hour delay, a temporary bridge was in place and they continued their journey.
The team and container officially arrived in Bluefields and all the items were carefully unloaded. The doctors were all very pleased to receive this much needed equipment. Dra López and Dr Torrez were there and received the shipment with much gratitude. Alvaro Ibarra, Indira Icaza, Devin Lockwood, Brenda Siu, Dr Jose Agustin Tellez Alcantar and Leslie Lissett Sinclair Flores all were there on behalf of Partners 4 Global Health. The national news also covered this wonderful story.
Addendum: Two more containers have been delivered since then and P4GH is currently receiving more equipment donations and accepting donations for additional future containers to several areas. Please consider our organization as you plan your charitable giving so that we may continue in these efforts.
Some P4GH History
Our journey began as "Team Nicaragua Medical Missions" in 2004 under the leadership of Ali Swanson. Our "Team Nicaragua" was made up of individuals from all over the USA and focused on providing general medical care as well as improving healthcare in remote villages and communities in the western part of Nicaragua. In 2008, Category V Hurricane Felix made landfall in the north eastern Carribean city of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and we were asked to travel to this extremely remote region to provide medical relief. Here we saw a region desperately in need of assistance as they are very isolated from the main part of the country.
Since then, our teams have traveled to many areas of Nicaragua, mostly on the Caribbean coast and we are currently expanding to Honduras. In addition to the medical outreach trips, we also ship containers of medical equipment to areas in need. One of our containers can be seen above and we are exploring sending similar containers with donated supplies to Honduras and the island country of Granada.
Hurricanes ETA and IOTA Relief Mission sponsored by P4GH
Alvaro Ibarra, Jose Agustin Tellez Alcantar, Danny Delgado. Claudia Vanessa Aburto and several others represented Partners 4 Global Health- P4GH and their local churches during the relief mission. They traveled to small communities close to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua that were devastated by the two hurricanes ETA and IOTA. The journey to the north took over 48 hours by truck and then they travelled to separate communities each day providing healthcare and humanitarian relief. In addition to medical attention, food and household goods, the community was super excited to receive hammers and nails to help them rebuild! Thank you to everyone who supports P4GH, because of you we were able to provide significant financial assistance for this mission. We would have wanted to bring a team from the USA but due to COVID-19 restrictions we chose to donate funds instead. We are so proud of our Nicaraguan brothers and sisters for their willingness to reach out and travel so far.
