Tuesday, 02 March 2010 13:41

Good Neighbors Deploys Emergency Relief Team to Earthquake- Damaged Chile

50,000 USD worth of supplies sent as first course of action.

After the 8.8 magnitude earthquake which took 700 lives and left 2 million refugees, Good Neighbors dispatched an emergency relief team to Chile.

Good Neighbors deployed an emergency relief team along with 50,000 USD worth of supplies to the earthquake-damaged site in Chile, where death tolls reached over 700 and left behind 2 million refugees due to the disastrous 8.8 magnitude earthquake at 3 AM (local time) on Feb 27^th.

At around 10 pm of March 1^st, Good Neighbors dispatched Sung-rak Park, 1^st emergency relief team and second team will be deployed within a week including medical team seeking further deployment and relief activity based on on-site research.

People lost their lives and livelihoods,
Unstopping aftershock, people are waiting for helping hands

 
There can not be ‘comparatively small’ loss to those who lost their lives and livelihoods by natural disaster. It is true that the loss of lives are smaller than Haiti earthquake, yet still 700 are dead, 2 million people lost their houses and more than 100 aftershocks terrify the residents. Warm attention and support are urgently needed for Chileans suffering from this disastrous event.

For all inquiries regarding donation, support and more information, please contact Good Neighbors 877-499-9898

 

 

 

 

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Thursday, 18 February 2010 11:46

Homeless Haiti refugee total 1.2 million

        

 

Picture 1) Girl smiling sitting in front of her collapsed house

 

Picture 2) Haitians waiting in line for Good Neighbors tent distribution

 

Picture 3) Good Neighbors relief team teaching setting up tents in the refugee camp

 

“In the refugee camp where the majority of the people are from poor urban areas, tents are set up with wooden sticks covered with cloth. Most of them are not waterproof, and we are concerned because the rainy season is ahead,” said Jae Wook Kang, a photographer working with Good Neighbors at the relief sites.

 

According to the UN, about 1.2 million refugees are living in camps with nowhere else to go. It is as if 1 out of 10 residents in the Los Angeles county are homeless. Although the tents are made out of bedding sheets and pieces of plastic, these materials are what people are depending on. Without proper shelter, thousands of families’ makeshift shelters are at risk of being swept away as rainy season is approaching. This is combined with the rising risk of exposure to diseases such as malaria and dengue fever due to the lack of sanitary facilities and water to drink.

 

Good Neighbors distributed 150 8-person tents to those who have lost their homes in the Damien region, and a distribution of 130 tents is planned to take place soon.  In long term, Good Neighbors is planning a house reconstruction project so that Haitians can have a base where they can rebuild their lives.

 

 

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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 15:38

Deploying third medical team to Haiti

        

 

Medical staff, food and water supplies are still desperately needed in Haiti.

 

Good Neighbors USA deployed on Monday Feb 1st, another medical team consisting of 1 doctor, 1 registered nurse with 30 years of experience and 1 pharmacist, all who volunteered to help people survived from the earthquake.

 

Doctor Byung Woo Choi previously volunteered in regions including Yemen (2003, 2004), Lebanon (2001) and Kenya (2000).

The veteran nurse Young Chin Roe currently works at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA and has previous experience as a medical volunteer in Africa (2004), the Amazon, Brazil (2006) and in Indian reservation areas (2008).

 

UCLA-graduate pharmacist Joanne Lee will prescribe medications and will also serve as a translator, as she speaks three languages.

 

Good Neighbors USA is planning to deploy additional medical teams successively in 10 terms. Haiti is in desperate need of medical doctors, nurses and medicines as well as hygiene items. 

Inquiries: Good Neighbors 877-499-9898

Attached picture: From left, Joanne Lee, Young Chin Roe and Byungwoo Choi   

 

 

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Monday, 01 February 2010 13:56

"Help us, my baby is sick..."

 

As Good Neighbors starts medical relief in an excluded region of Port-au-Prince where no other organizations helping, local Haitians with wounds and inappropriately treated gathered in hundreds.

Waiting under the sun with no place available for shade, a mother carrying a baby starts shedding tears as she receives her turn for medical treatment.  “Please help, my baby is sick…” she says hugging her 3 year-old baby drooping down in his mother’s arm.  Her face reflects many mothers' in Haiti, staying up whole nights fearing aftershocks, trembling with fears of diseases from bugs and viruses, worring about lack of food and water to provide to their children. 

Last January 25^th, the emergency team from the Haiti health department announced that they will now focus on medical treatments, disease prevention and public health, thus altering their original focus on first-aid treatment. With the severe lack of drinking water and poor hygienic conditions, people are in danger of being exposed to more diseases. New threats such as typhoid, tetanus and diarrhea are appearing on the scene. The Haiti government and the UN are planning a large-scale vaccination campaign. 

Good Neighbors USA is planning to deploy additional medical teams consisting of 3 doctors, 4 nurses and 1 pharmacist all on active duty in Los Angeles and to deploy on rotation as 10 teams. Haiti is in desperate need of medical doctors, nurses and medicines as well as hygiene items.   

Inquiries: Good Neighbors 877-499-9898 

 

Attached pictures:

Picture 1) mother with a sick child visiting the infirmary

Picture 2) Haitians waiting for treatments

 

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Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:17

Good Neighbors Deploys Medical Team to Haiti

 

 

 

Good Neighbors is sending to Haiti medical teams of doctors and nurses recruited from Korea and USA. Hailing from Korea’s Wonju Christian Hospital and from the Seoul National University Hospital, the doctors arrived in Haiti and continued providing medical service with their own medical equipments and medicines. In the United States with the support from the Nurses Association, a medical team with a general practitioner, a 30 years-experienced nurse from Cedar-Sinai Hospital with expertise in surgical operations, and a pharmacist fluent in the local language is ready to be deployed this coming Monday, February 1st.

 

Good Neighbors is set to deploy medical teams in 10 consecutive terms and is already registered as a NGO in Haiti in preparation to provide long term reconstruction development projects.

 

According to the deployed medical team currently on ground, the local sanitary conditions are very poor and signs of epidemics such as tetanus and typhoid are growing. There is an urgent need not only for surgeons but also for internal medical doctors and pharmaceutical supplies.

 

Medical doctors and nurses are desperately needed in Haiti.

 

For all inquiries, please contact Good Neighbors 877-499-9898

 

2 Pictures Attached: Good Neighbors performing medical service to local people.