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Showing posts with label Colombia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colombia. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Buenaventura, Colombia
I was sent to Buenaventura, Colombia in order to do a medical assessment for Project C.U.R.E. Phoenix on an ICU wing being built at a local hospital. Here are some pictures from my trip!
More photos can be found on my facebook page!
More photos can be found on my facebook page!
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Clothes for Children in Colombia
I had the pleasure of visiting Colombia again and while there I brought clothes for the children in need.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Meeting the Governor's Advisor, Felix Ospino, in Colombia April 2014
While in Colombia I was thrilled to be able to meet with Felix Ospino, the Asesor del Gobernador, for Governor Juis Cotes at Don Pepe Hotel in Santa Marta, Colombia . I presented him with a brochure from Project C.U.R.E. and spoke to him about coming to Colombia again in the future to do a medical assessment. He's excited about Project C.U.R.E. and exploring the possibility of having many containers send to the 13 municipal hospitals that the government is in charge of in the state of Magdalena. We are hopeful we will be able to work with the customs officials to provide much needed donated supplies and equipment.
For more information about Project C.U.R.E. please visit, www.projectcure.org
For more information about my philanthropic work, please visit www.charlesirion.com
For more information about my Summit Murder Mystery series, please visit www.summitmurdermystery.com
Project C.U.R.E. and Others, Helping Children in Need in Colombia - April 2014
In Colombia, thousands of families have been allowed to build homes along railroad tracks. After five years, if they maintain the house, they have squatters rights and can apply for a title to the land. The homes unfortunately aren't well maintained, and are poorly built. Only a few have electricity and water.
With the help of Project C.U.R.E., Jose and his wife Clarita, Ana Maria Pisciotti, my friend Stacie Berman Webb and her children, my assistant Jennifer, and her daughter's Hannah and Grace, we donated clothes from America to hundreds of children, both boys and girls. They were extremely excited to receive new clothes - everything from shorts, t-shirts, jeans, skirts and dresses. I also locally purchased toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and cookies for the kids and handed them out, until I ran out.
You can see by their happy grins and faces they really enjoyed our visit. Enjoy the photos.
With the help of Project C.U.R.E., Jose and his wife Clarita, Ana Maria Pisciotti, my friend Stacie Berman Webb and her children, my assistant Jennifer, and her daughter's Hannah and Grace, we donated clothes from America to hundreds of children, both boys and girls. They were extremely excited to receive new clothes - everything from shorts, t-shirts, jeans, skirts and dresses. I also locally purchased toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and cookies for the kids and handed them out, until I ran out.
You can see by their happy grins and faces they really enjoyed our visit. Enjoy the photos.
For more information about Project C.U.R.E. please visit, www.projectcure.org
For more information about my philanthropic work, please visit www.charlesirion.com
For more information about my Summit Murder Mystery series, please visit www.summitmurdermystery.com
Friday, May 2, 2014
Visit to Indigenous People Arhuaco of Colombia in April 2014
While in Colombia I was thrilled to meet Julio Cesar Nieves
Escandon. Julio is a History professor of Indigenous people of Colombia
- Arhuaco people. He was our mentor and facilitator and took us to
see this private and extremely prestigious community.
The Arhuaco are a profoundly spiritual people who follow their own unique philosophy that tends to globalize their surroundings. They believe in a creator or "father" named Kakü Serankua, who engendered the first gods and material living things, other "fathers" like the sun and the snowy peaks and other "mothers" like the earth and the moon. They consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to be the heart of the world, and believe that the well-being of the rest of the world depends on it.
The Arhuaco live in the upper valleys of the Piedras River, San Sebastian River, Chichicua River, Ariguani River, and Guatapuri River, in an Indigenous Territory in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains. Their traditional territory before the Spanish colonization, was larger than today's boundaries which exclude many of their sacred sites that they continue to visit today, to pay offerings. These lost territories are the lower parts by the steps of the mountains, lost to colonization and farming.
When I visited their community, I brought with me toothbrushes, toothpaste, cookies and soap to give to the children an their families, which they loved. Nutritionist Professor Iris Perico with the government was also there and she weighed and measured the children and gave a lecture about food preparation, nutrition and cleanliness to all the women. She taught them things like how important it is to clean under your fingernails before preparing food to stop the spread of disease.
Here are some photos from my visit. The children sang for us and thanked us in their indigenous language.
The Arhuaco are a profoundly spiritual people who follow their own unique philosophy that tends to globalize their surroundings. They believe in a creator or "father" named Kakü Serankua, who engendered the first gods and material living things, other "fathers" like the sun and the snowy peaks and other "mothers" like the earth and the moon. They consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to be the heart of the world, and believe that the well-being of the rest of the world depends on it.
The Arhuaco live in the upper valleys of the Piedras River, San Sebastian River, Chichicua River, Ariguani River, and Guatapuri River, in an Indigenous Territory in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains. Their traditional territory before the Spanish colonization, was larger than today's boundaries which exclude many of their sacred sites that they continue to visit today, to pay offerings. These lost territories are the lower parts by the steps of the mountains, lost to colonization and farming.
When I visited their community, I brought with me toothbrushes, toothpaste, cookies and soap to give to the children an their families, which they loved. Nutritionist Professor Iris Perico with the government was also there and she weighed and measured the children and gave a lecture about food preparation, nutrition and cleanliness to all the women. She taught them things like how important it is to clean under your fingernails before preparing food to stop the spread of disease.
Here are some photos from my visit. The children sang for us and thanked us in their indigenous language.
For more information about Project C.U.R.E. please visit, www.projectcure.org
For more information about my philanthropic work, please visit www.charlesirion.com
For more information about my Summit Murder Mystery series, please visit www.summitmurdermystery.com
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