HANDS ON GLOBAL ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE HOG has been operating in the Ukraine since March 9, 2022. Each evening since then, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has contacted the HOG team lead and provides their next day’s schedule. The HOG Mobile Clinic is usually assigned to a strategic location to set-up its operation. This [...]
NEWS UPDATE UKRAINE CRISIS Members of the Hands On Global Medical Team are flying to Romania March 9,2022. They will be joining Refuge4Refugees and setting up a medical clinic in Siret where people are fleeing the war in Ukraine. We will blog from the ground. Donations are needed to assist with medical support and other items [...]
Through its newly formed Helena Afghan Refugee Resettlement Team, local nonprofit Hands On Global plans to bring about 15 refugees to the area over the coming months. Click on the following links to read the local story from Helena's Independent Record: Helena schools prepare for Afghan refugee students Afghan refugees facing a long road to [...]
Hands On Global has been working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Montana to resettle Afghan refugees. Members of HARRT (Helena Afghan Refugee Resettlement Team) have been training with the IRC and are prepared to welcome these refugees to resettle in Helena, Montana. The team is committed to provide and guide access to services [...]
Six days in Athens and feeling like I know how to get around just one area of town. Traffic is insane. Today I walked for two hours as I don’t know when I’ll be back. Everything seems so expensive — I wonder how the refugees can afford living here if they get asylum. Valerie Hellermann continues to talk with medical [...]
OMG I am devastated. My friend and colleague “AA” has just received his second asylum rejection today. Hands On Global worked with this man for over six months in the medical clinic. He is a hard worker, always putting in the extra time and energy, with great kindness. This man, from an unnamed African country, had been [...]
I have been in Athens and last evening arrived in Lesvos. It is difficult to figure out what is going on with the refugees situation. We met with the MVI team leaders. They say the island camps have less than 3000 refugees that 1000 s have left for the mainland and there are many homeless [...]
Both excitement and hesitation visit me as I’m driving back to Kara Tepe 2 refugee camp on Lesvos Island Greece. I know I’ll see many familiar faces of both foreigners and refugees when I arrive. This creates mixed feelings. I would hope that all of the refugee friends that I had previously made would have been [...]
Oh, today in the camp was really cold again. Dr Taha and I visited 3 refugee families all with a member who is medically fragile, and one single woman. I am going to tell you her story. She is 24 and from Somalia. 5 years ago she fled Somalia to a refugee camp in Yemen. It [...]
Finished last clinic here at camp. I have loved working with the CMA and Healthbridge translators, the CMA team, the EODY team, MVI and the ABS German team. Each person did their best to deliver the best health care possible in very challenging conditions. It has been an honor to work together. I am very [...]
