PGHF currently supports and collaborates with other humanitarians
and organizations
on the
following current
and pending projects that serve, build, and uplift healthy local
and global communities.
Please feel free to notify us as to what projects you wish to
join
and volunteer:1.
PROJECT: Clean Water for the World
PGHF helps support a grassroots organization Rural Health Care Foundation
based in Mubende, Uganda. PGHF hopes to help mobilize
people to increase
awareness about the water situation in Africa. McGuire water
purifiers were donated
in Uganda in 2006 and during the July, 2008 conference.
Community empowerment
starts with the basic - clean water. Education,
rehydration, and water purification are
vital. Acquiring funds to help build wells and
boreholes is also a part of this
project. Contacting donor individuals and organizations
to help with this project has
led to a donation of several wells in Mubende by an
NPO. PGHF will help ensure that
the wells
are in place through ongoing contacts and
visits by PGHF members with
the grassroots organization. PGHF supported and
encouraged the first international
healthy and safe water for the world led by the
grassroots this past July, 2008.
PGHF is currently setting up to establish a clean water
project in Liberia for next year.
2. PROJECT: Refugees and
displaced population
PGHF will raise funds to help support a medical and
psychosocial team to educate,
serve as consultants, do needs assessments, in
countries where there are refugees
and displaced children and families. The goal is
to help the affected people to
eventually self-sustain
via the medical and psychiatric care of refugees and especially
those who are affected by the genocide such as the
refugees from
Darfur, Sudan.
There are also many displaced children and families
in Uganda. During short-term
missions, the PGHF team will bring and donate medical supplies. A
goal would also be to
establish clinics that would eventually be ran by the
grassroots medical personnel.
3. PROJECT : Orphaned children of AIDS and
child-headed families
PGHF's special project is the setting up of a healthy
orphanage in Mubende,
Uganda. There is an orphanage there where the children
still sleep in their
mud huts and half are orphaned children of AIDS. The children
can benefit from
an orphanage structure in place where they can sleep and
study and will also serve
as their school. The project hopes to encourage
self-sustainability through
education, encouraging survival life skills, empowerment of
the children through
values formation, education, and support of the designated
adult caregivers.
Work will also be done in ensuring that the physical and
psychosocial health
needs of the orphaned children are cared for.
4. PROJECT : The
marginalized and the isolated
A team will be sent to the Pine Ridge Reservation in
South Dakota to do a basic
needs
assessment, forge friendships and meet with the reservation families, and to
coordinate with existing humanitarian groups. The Pine
Ridge
Native American reservation contends
with a high rate of infant mortality and teen
suicide. Chemical dependency and alcoholism continue to destroy many
lives there.
The Lakota Native Americans are
a sharing community, a family-oriented people who
have profound spirituality. They have suffered tremendously from
historical injustices
and do their best to
maintain hope in spite of what many describe as a cultural genocide.
PGHF hopes to create awareness about the Lakotas and their beautiful
culture.
PGHF PROJECT WARMTH - PGHF members
and LIGHT teams collaborated with
a grassroots
organization One Spirit by sending boxes of winter clothes, blankets
gloves, hats, shovels, candles, and donations from various parts of the
USA. One Spirit
is now creating a warehouse so
they can dole out the clothes for warmth for the people
during their sever blizzards there. Donations were given as well to buy
some heaters
for the families.
The marginalized include those who suffer illnesses like AIDS
and mental illnesses
who have become isolated and/or incarcerated because of their
problems. Many who
suffer mental illness are now
incarcerated causing more profound trauma on those
who are needing psychiatric care. Many who suffer AIDS live in isolated
hard to reach
communities in Africa.
5. PROJECT: Local and
global disaster relief work
Jumpstarting teams to do needs assessments and serving the needs of those
who suffer natural and/or man-made disasters in different parts of the globe.
PGHF members are encouraged to be trained in setting up
water purifiers,
being certified in emergency community response, and
being updated with
CPR. There are many ways to help during disaster time.
From giving comfort
and compassionate solace
to those affected, to helping with needed logistical
responses, to collaborating with existing organizations already in the
disaster area;
getting more help as needed,
setting up make-shift clinics, bringing water, food, clothes,
direct patients care by medical and psychosocial teams.
6. PROJECT: De-stigmatization of mental illness
Fundraising through various
events such as art/music festivals to raise funds for
those who help care for
the mentally ill and chemically dependent.
(i.e. Lighthouse Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
Center and
Crisis Stabilization Unit in Seven Counties Services
in Louisville, Kentucky)
PGHF believes in recognizing and encouraging the inner strengths and talents
of people and believe in the healing aspects of art and music.
7. PROJECT : Support artisan groups
This
includes groups such as Uganda Women Empowerment
through Crafts, Inc. and African Art Women Initiatives in their efforts to
alleviate
poverty, as well as soar from tragedies and disasters
through their
arts and crafts initiatives.
8. PROJECT: The Gawad Kalinga Project
(originating from
the Philippines to expand to other continents such as
Africa), which
currently aims towards abolishing poverty through housing
assistance (building homes), and helping the disadvantaged self-sustain.
The PAL-CARE Project in the Philippines
focuses on alleviating
the suffering of chronic and
terminally ill people. This organization was founded
by a dedicated and mission-focused physician, Dr. Howard Hernandez.
9. PROJECT:
Appalachia
The PGHF team will collaborate with
individuals and organizations to
do needs assessments, bring medical supplies, educate
and give
psychosocial and psychiatric consultations in the
Appalachian regions.
10. PROJECT: South America
Many in South America like in Peru
have suffered the ravages of disaster,
both man-made and natural. PGHF team hopes to
create mission projects
there that can alleviate the suffering of many.
Mission projects are presently
ideated to
serve impoverished communities in Brazil and Colombia.
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