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Global Health Charities’ mission is to connect unmet healthcare needs to innovative, sustainable solutions and resources.

 

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

-Robert Francis Kennedy

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3 days ago

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Today we celebrate birthdays! Lots and lots of HAPPY, HEALTHY BIRTHDAYS!

We have now assembled 10,023 Clean Birth Kits for women and infants in underdeveloped countries! These kits have, and will, potentially touch the lives of over 20,000 human beings--both mama and baby (and their families and communities)!

Thank you to Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, South Oakland Shelter and our youth team! The 96 kits we assembled put us over the 10,000 mark, and although we didn't have cake, we're celebrating BIRTHDAYS today!
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Parish - Farmington, MI
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1 week ago

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Through a partnership between a small community of religious Filipino Sisters whose ministry is serving the poor in the Philippines, the Diocese of Joliet (IL), The Poor Household of God (a nonprofit supporting the Sisters), Presence Health and GHC, 500 birthing kits were sent to the Sisters in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines a few months ago.

This week, we received an email from Mary Jane Trinkus from The Poor Household of God with some exciting news. The kits were transported to the far-flung village of Burak, where there were 11 pregnant women. Ms. Trinkus said that after the terrible typhoon Yolanda a few years ago, deliveries were free, but that only lasted for 24 months. Below is the current situation for a pregnant woman:

-Deliveries at home are not allowed.
-All women must go to a rural health clinic or a hospital to have their babies.
-The closest rural health unit is about 1 hour and 15 minutes away with the only transportation being by motorcycle or motorized tricycle.
-A jeepnie (similar to a small bus) makes just one stop a day in the village.
-Each vaginal ’normal’ delivery cost 2000 pesos=$40.00.
-The supplies the pregnant woman needs to bring cost about 1000 pesos=$20.00.

This village is quite poor, and the birthing kits were able to save the family the $20 expense.

Each pregnant woman received a kit. Kits were also given to the rural health clinic.

These kits were assembled by PRESENCE HEALTH in Chicago and MERCY HIGH SCHOOL students in Farmington Hills!

Thank you to all of our partners--together we can help women and infants experience a dignified, clean birth and avoid infection-related deaths. Know that your work is and will continue to make a difference.

Thank you to Mary Jane Trinkus for the beautiful photos!

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Mercy High School Farmington Hills
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