HOPE for Jamaica is an incorporated non-government
organization (“NGO”) which is committed to improve health care.
HOPE worldwide
Jamaica is
part of HOPE
worldwide, a global, medical, volunteer organization and a
USAID registered charity
which operates in 103 cities globally.
HOPE has a local board of
directors and its projects are managed by Doctors Peter and Sandra Swaby (e-mail).
For the past
six years, HOPE for Jamaica has significantly improved the health
services to rural communities through its mobile medical services.
In Jamaica, HOPE worldwide has
provided free or low-cost medical care to more than 85,000 Jamaicans
since 1994.
patients have received treatment through the service in
Kingston, rural St. Andrew and St. Catherine.
The project has grown from one mobile medical unit serving seven
communities four years ago to four mobile units and a full-time inner city clinic
serving 15 communities.
HOPE worldwide Jamaica is to be featured at the 2001 International Diabetes Conference in Jamaica. HOPE worldwide has been asked to present the findings of its work over the last few years in working with chronic disease patients. The International Diabetes Conference is an annual Diabetes Conference that is put on by the University Diabetes Out Reach Project and the Diabetes Association of Jamaica. This will be their Sixth conference. The conference attracts participants from the United States, Europe and the Caribbean and has an average attendance of 550 medical professionals. The emphasis of the conference is Diabetes of the Lower extremities and will involve an overview of diabetic neuropathy, and the causes of it as well as the micro vascular disease. Dr. Neil Donahue will be teaching on practical ways to prevent lower limb amputations in Diabetics from a their world perspective. HOPE worldwide will get an opportunity to present on the findings of the volunteer work that was done during the HOPE Health Corps. in Jamaica in 1997 as well as detailing the results of the effort since then.
HOPE also co-ordinates over 1000
volunteers (members of KCOC) who provide educational, medical and recreational
services to the children at the Glenhope Place of Safety, National Children’s
Home, Marigold Place of Safety, Strathmore Children's’
Home, Walkers Place of Safety and The Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Center.
Our wide ranging recreational activities provide the children with
constructive avenues for developing motor and social skills.
The goal of each volunteer has been to become like a big brother or sister to two or three children. The individual focus on these children has changed them radically in terms of their self-esteem, confidence and social skill. In addition, the relationships developed with the volunteers has led to many of the children spending holidays or other special occasions with them at their homes. Four children have now been adopted as a result of these special relationships!
7 Oxford Park Ave
Kingston 5, Jamaica
Tel: (876)754-4012, 754-4446
E-mail: hopeja@cwjamaica.com