Here we tell you why our mission, vision and approach matter.
དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་། གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག། Royal Government of BhutanPhuentsholing Hospital Chhukha: Bhutan Authored By: Phub Wangdi, Team leader, Palliative Care Services, Phuentsholing Hospital THE JOURNEY BEGINS The journey of introducing palliative care services in Phuentsholing, Chhukha, began unexpectedly for me. One day, I received…
In 2016, nutrition specialist Dr. Susan Kleiner’s husband received a call from a friend looking for a dentist to join a volunteer trip to Can Tho, Vietnam. He asked Dr. Kleiner what she thought he should do. “I said, ‘Well…
By Katharine Lowndes, MBBS, FRCPath In 2018, when I was looking into volunteering opportunities, HVO stood out as – and remains – one of the very few organisations where haematologists can volunteer their expertise. I had previously undertaken some volunteer…
Watch the video to hear Dr. Yvonne Vaucher and Dr. Margaret Nakeeto share their work in neonatal care in Uganda. In the twenty-three years since Dr. Yvonne Vaucher first traveled to Uganda on an HVO assignment, she and Dr. Margaret…
By Madeleine Hines, DPT I found HVO while I was searching for an organization that did sustainable service travel for physical therapists. I read the websites of many organizations that assisted medical professionals in voluntourism, but HVO’s mission and model stuck out…
In March 2024, Jordan Tropf, MD, traveled to Moshi, Tanzania to teach at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC). He was the recipient of an HVO Traveling Orthopaedic Surgery Fellowship. The fellowship provides funding to defray the costs for senior orthopaedic…
Written by: Amy Sacco, RN, MS, OCN In March of 2023 while I was scrolling through my e-mail, a new post on the Oncology Nursing Society discussion board for Global Health caught my eye. It was an opportunity to participate…
Dr. George Pantely, a cardiologist, and his wife Mrs. Sharon Pantely, a nurse, have spent over a decade volunteering together with HVO projects in Asia and South and Central America. They had long been interested in volunteer work, but had…
Editor’s note: The following article is a guest contribution from Betty Beard, RN, MSN, PhD. Dr. Beard, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University, is the Project Director for HVO’s nursing education project at Hai Duong Medical Technical University in Vietnam.…
The partnerships at the heart of HVO’s work are built on years of collaboration and professional exchange. Our projects promote long-lasting relationships among health providers, fostering a global community that serves as a source of strength and resilience. Though our…
Developing a Fulbright assignment with HVO took a while but, ultimately, the timing of the experience could not have been better. Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh, had an unused ventilator that had been on-site…
A story from our pediatrics project in Bhutan shows how people working toward a common goal can have remarkable results.