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Mission:
The mission of Open Hands is
to glorify God by offering relief to those suffering due to
crisis, poverty, or injustice. |
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Current Project: Open Hands has
responded to the devastating earthquake in Haiti by sending
an emergency disaster relief medical team, which is working in
Port-au-Prince. The team is transporting severely injured
victims to hospitals where they can receive life-saving
treatments. They are also running mobile medical
clinics in the outlying refugee camps where there has been very
limited access to health care. The
team is just the first of many that will be responding to this
crisis. If you wish to join with us in responding to the
tremendous need, please contact us at
info@openhandsintl.org Click here to read our
blog from Haiti Click
here for a video |
| Past Projects:
 Banda Aceh, Sumatra
The first relief mission that Open Hands
planned and executed launched in January 2005. This initial team
spent two weeks on the ground in the destroyed capitol city of
Banda Aceh, Sumatra. The team numbered fourteen including one
Indonesian translator, two Indonesian drivers and two American
physicians. While in Banda Aceh the team registered as an NGO with
the United Nations HHC, provided direct medical care at numerous
clinics, vaccinated children in a cooperative effort with the
World Health Organization and delivered enough medical supplies to
treat nearly three thousand people. Our health care workers
partnered with military and local providers to treat over seven
hundred individuals. |
 Nias
Island, Sumatra On March
28, 2005 another violent earthquake ripped through Sumatra.
Focused near the Island of Nias, a small coastal island, this
event killed over 1,300 people and heavily damaged the developed
areas on the island. Open Hands sent a team of ten volunteers to
the island in June 2005. These volunteers partnered with World
Food Programme to deliver and distribute food and medicines,
volunteered at local hospitals, constructed particulated type
water filtration systems, counseled traumatized survivors and
provide direct patient care at several mobile medical clinics.
Open Hands also provided a local non profit with essential
equipment for the construction of water filtrations systems.
A small contingency of the team also visited several orphanages in
and around the Jakarta area. Secondary to these visits Open Hands
immediately organized a shoe and school supply drive in the
Columbus, Ohio area. This drive delivered shoes and school
supplies to over 200 orphans in Indonesia. |
 Yogya, Java
During the early morning hours of July 17, 2006
another earthquake struck Indonesia. Located near Yogyakarta,
Central Java this event killed 800 and displaced 54,256 people.
Open Hands again responded with a medical team of seven American
healthcare providers to the region with valuable medical supplies.
Our team then partnered with two Indonesian physicians and three
Indonesian translators to treat 790 patients in the Yogya area.
During the mission to Java the team also visited one asylum
delivering food, clothing, sleeping mats, providing medical care
and offering prayer.
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