Project HOPE

Project HOPE has 50 years' experience delivering medicines and providing critical health training in developing countries. You may remember our hospital ship that traveled the world delivering hope. 800-544-4673.

Why do we exist?

Project HOPE was formed in 1958 as one of the first non-profit organizations to help developing countries find solutions to their health care needs using their existing resources. “Teaching while healing” was the watchword during SS HOPE voyages.   

One of the most universal needs is retaining skilled, knowledgeable health care professionals. Project HOPE has been a pioneer in this respect and has, over the years, perfected its Training-of-Trainers model, which not only improves the skills of a core group of health care professionals, but also certifies them to conduct training independently, significantly increasing the number of skilled care givers in a given country.

For example, after helping the Chinese develop the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center (SCMC), that facility has become the nation’s leading referral center for pediatric cardiac surgery. Not only do children at great risk of death receive life-saving corrective surgeries, but SCMC itself has become a teaching facility, leading other facilities in their initiatives to improve care at their respective facilities.

What have you accomplished?

Project HOPE’s accomplishments vary widely among its diverse programs. Common to all of them, however, is the successful empowerment of the most vulnerable groups within the population. Helping disenfranchised people claim their rights to recognition and acceptance from their peers and their government has led to increased, prolonged protection and assistance beyond HOPE’s initial role.

Hardly any groups are more marginalized than people living with HIV/AIDS. And yet, once they are educated about the disease – and frightening myths about its transmission are dispelled – hardly any group is more willing to stand up and speak out for their rights.

In a rural village in Namibia, for example, Victoria tested positive for HIV, but after participating in Project HOPE’s program to help HIV-positive caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children, she became one of the leading advocates and educators in her community. Today she is proudly leading an HIV support group of nearly 50 women and three men.

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