HANDS INTERNATIONAL: HAITI RELIEF

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

HAITI RELIEF

Re: HAITI RELIEF
Date: Tue, January 19, 2010 5:29 am
To: hedwards@lasierra. edu

Dr Edwards,

Thank you for all the support! We are all gathering tonight 6:30 o'clock to pack, to sort through the donated supplies and have our final meeting before travelling.

We are truly blessed because the newspaper here [The News Journal, Delaware] is sending two journalists with us to do daily reports about the work we will be doing. The U. N. also promised to provide security for us there. God has placed in our path several individuals who have been willing to make calls and get everything moving for us. Our support is tremendous! The hospital here http://www.christianacare.org/body.cfm?id=14 has donated thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies, and we have at least twenty volunteers who will be coming just to help us pack; not counting the volunteers who will actually be going to Haiti. There are about twenty-two of us travelling. Fourteen doctors, at least one from each speciality; four nurses, one physician assistant, two medical school students and I.

1. Dr. Reynold Agard, Newark, internal medicine, Christiana Care
2. Dr. Lester Horrell, Newark, pediatrician, Christiana Care
3. Dr. Nadiv Shapira, Arden, thoracic surgeon, Christiana Care
4. Dr. Steven Johnson, Hockessin, general surgeon, Christiana Care
5. Dr. John Brebbia, Magnolia, trauma surgeon, Bayhealth Medical Center
6. Dr. Kamar Adeleke, Greenville, cardiologist, Christiana Care, St. Francis
7. Dr. Lanny Edelsohn, Greenville, neurologist, Christiana Care
8. Scott Stevenson, Oxford, Pa., physician's assistant, Christiana Care
9. David Brayfield, Newark, nurse technician, Christiana Care
10. Dr. Erin Meyer, Bel Air, Md., internal medicine and pediatrics, Christiana Care
11. Susan Kaye, Brandywine Hundred, registered nurse, Christiana Care
12. Rose Valmond, Bear, nursing student, Christiana Care, native of Jacmel
13. Denise Sanchez, Newark, registered nurse, Christiana Care
14. Joshua Wallace, Ellicott City, Md., mental health associate at Christiana Care
15. Richard Agard, Newark, prospective medical student
16. Ava Horrell, Newark, medical stenographer
17. Cliford Francois, New York, U.S. Army member, native of Jacmel, brother of Rose Valmond
18. Jean Baptiste, New York, native of Jacmel, cousin of Rose Valmond
19. Ingrid Agard, Newark, medical administrator
20. Kern Agard, Philadelphia, emergency medical technician

God is truly in this venture. I have never seen or received such support for any mission and everything just seems to fall into place without any real effort on our part. Another Adventist team of doctors, all Haitians, from New York and Boston area called last night saying they just heard about us and they will be travelling to Haiti on Friday; they want to join forces with us. What a blessing. Again thank you for all the support.

In His service,

Ingrid

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

The Mission: Health and Development Services International Inc. (HANDS International) is an approved voluntary non-profit agency established to channel the knowledge, skills, and resources of dedicated servant-leaders toward human development. Inspired by the Spirit and deeds of Christ and in the tradition of luminous souls throughout history who have followed his example, the agency seeks to embody the ideals of compassion for the disadvantaged and care for the underserved. Through its programs and ministries it seeks to collaborate with those who hold similar principles, focusing primarily on promoting health care within the community, wholeness within the family, group empowerment through education and training, and on emergency relief linked with long-term community development. Those committed to these values are essentially volunteers without borders, serving the underserved without pay.

The Objectives: HANDS will direct its efforts toward achieving the following objectives:
1. Assemble intervention teams of caring and culture-sensitive professionals who are qualified to attend to health conditions prevalent in underserved communities and to engage in general health promotion.
2. Create and maintain model health and development programs that can be adapted to the special needs of the disadvantaged and the underserved in various cultural settings.
3. Based upon accurate data and effective global and local networking, maintain a dossier of under- served communities and people-groups which have special health and developmental needs.
4. Assist in developing and sustaining at least one international project oriented toward health promotion and recovery, education, family life, and/or community development.
5. Form partnerships with other agencies within the vicinity of the Inland Empire in planning and executing community-based programs or convention whose goals are consistent with the ideals contained in the “Healthy People 2010” framework.
6. Foster cultural diversity, sensitivity and competence through meaningful cultural exchanges and program partnerships with various ethnic churches and local groups.
7. Organize seminars and educational forums that address issues of current interest in the areas where health, education, society, and faith intersect with the goal of increasing general awareness or provide special leadership training.
8. Recognizing that the deteriorating state of the family in much of the modern world is a major source of physical, psychological and social ills, identify places of special needs and secure competent human resources to provide guidance and education in the dynamics of family life.
9. Maintain a state of readiness to participate in emergency situations in which natural disasters or calamities threaten significant loss of life, health, or property.

From the HANDS first Executive Director

January 30, 2008

Dear Colleague and Friend:

I am pleased to introduce to you Health and Development Services International, (HANDS), an agency dedicated to short-term mission service in selected regions of the globe. Heart-rending images of the most horrific natural disasters this generation has ever experienced stunned the world in 2004. Equally disturbing is the continuing cry of hundreds of millions - the most vulnerable on our planet - whose chronic debilitating health and social conditions contrasts so sharply with our position of relative privilege. Moreover, the need to resolve conflicts, foster understanding, and facilitate reconciliation among the diverse and often disparate inhabitants of our planet has never been greater.

HANDS was recently established as a conscientious response to these stark global realities. While it cannot redress all the world's ills, this fledgling agency represents a defining choice - a choice inspired by the spirit and deeds of Christ and luminous souls throughout history who have followed his example - to join forces with others to make a positive difference. Those who carry out its mission seek to embody the ideals of compassion for the disadvantaged and care for the under-served. Wounded healers themselves, they have chosen to be volunteers without borders serving the under-served without pay.The agency is therefore eager to welcome into its cadre of volunteers physicians, nutritionists, nurses, health educators and others of goodwill who identify with the vision captured in its compelling motto:

IN BROKENNESS, HEALING HANDS: IN CONFLICT, RECONCILING GRACE

Very sincerely,

Hedrick J. Edwards
Executive Director

HANDS Board

Current:

Reynold Agard, MD (Internal Medicine)

Linbrook Barker, MD (General Surgery)

Antonius Brandon, PhD (Clinical Psychology), MA

Hedrick Edwards, DHSc (International Health), MSPH (Health Education), MA (Counseling), MA (Biblical Theology)

Lester Horrell, MD (Pediatrics)

Julihana Madison, MS (Nursing), MBA

Norman Mitchell, PhD (Biology)

Naomi Modeste, DrPH, MPH (Health Education)

Paul Thorpe, MS (Computer)

Chair: Julihana J. Madison, MBA, RN; President: Antonius D. Brandon, PhD; Executive Secretary: Hedrick J. Edwards, DHSc, MSPH; Treasurer: Paul Thorpe, MS; Reynold Agard, MD; Linbrook Barker, MD; Lester Horrell, MD; Norman L. Mitchell, PhD; Naomi Modeste, DrPH

Founding Board

Chair: Norman L. Mitchell; President: Antonius Brandon; Executive Secretary: Hedrick J. Edwards; Treasurer: Paul Thorpe; Members: Linbrook Barker, Naomi Modeste, Paula Fox, Lawrence Weeks, Charles David

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

HAITI RELIEF

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