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2023 Philippine Medical and Solidarity Mission – Date Change
Description and rationale of the medical and solidarity mission In the Philippines, health facilities and services remain to be highly urban-centered, inadequate, commercialized and inaccessible to the majority of the Filipino people while health workers have been...
Relief Operation for Odette Typhoon Victims in Cebu
Report from Filipino Nurses United (FNU) Cebu Chapter A disaster relief operation for Odette typhoon victims in Cebu was conducted on January 17-21, 2022. This was done to address the survival and immediate needs of the people after the calamity struck. The...
Guatemala Mission December 2021 a Huge Success!
Congratulations to Organizacion Amancio Samuel Villatoro, Cuban medical brigade, nurses from the U.S. and volunteers for the resonating success of the Guatemala International Medical Mission held in Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango and Santa Catarina, and San Marcos held on...
A Small Gesture to Help Nurses in the Philippines
Even before the pandemic, nurses in the Philippines have been in the frontlines over-worked healing patients with meagre pay. In an effort to support them, the Filipino American Health Workers Association (FAHWA) and the Filipino Nurses United (FNU) will be giving...
Help the People of the Philippines Affected by Typhoon Ulysses and Massive Flooding
We appeal for support to help the people devastated by Typhoon Ulysses (Vamco) and massive flooding in the Philippines. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and still reeling from the damage brought about by Typhoons Pepito, Quinta and Rolly, Typhoon Ulysses...
Urgent Funds to Fight COVID 19 and Hunger in Guatemala
[Solicitud en español abajo] Your donations will go towards assembling packs of immediate necessities and facilitating rapid distribution to over 500 families in several struggling communities in Guatemala. Each pack will contain staple foods, COVID 19 preventative...
Disaster Relief in Bahamas
Six nurses, members of NYSNA and Dr. Michael Touger just returned from the Bahamas after four days of Medical Mission at the Great Abaco Island. Hurricane Dorian first hit the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. That ties it for the strongest...
Mexican Border Medical Mission-October, 2019
In October A team of 7 nurses members of NYSNA and one doctor concerned about the migrants' health, traveled to the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, to provide free medical assistance to 275 patients from different parts of the world, waiting in Mexico for a...
Medical Mission in India
Our medical mission team is set to go to New Delhi, India on January 21, 2019. About 201 volunteers from New York State Nurses Association will be hosted by United Nurses Association- New Delhi Chapter.