Serving At The Crossroads
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News
| Clinic receives recognition from Washington, DC based foundation | 10/30/06 |
| Manos Amigas (MA) received an award from The Institute for Technology in Healthcare during the world-wide Project Honduras Conference in Copan Ruinis....full story... | |
| Library Soon To Be New Addition In La Entrada | 4/17/06 |
| Healing takes many forms – physical, spiritual and mental. Even though SATC is focused on the medical aspects of people’s well-being, one of our partnering organizations, Bridge to Honduras, caters to the social dimensions of daily living. Anne Wilkins, a teenager from that group noticed that La Entrada had no books and no library...full story... | |
| New Clinic (Phase II) Up Date | 2/21/06 |
| Bureaucracy is Bureaucracy! It does not matter whether you are in Honduras or in the US. The US, through one of its “assistance programs” has mandated that the country must comply with the provisions of the United Nations Millennium Goals,...full story... | |
| All Politics Are Local | 2/17/06 |
| Honduras is a young Democracy – slightly less than 20 years now. Fall has come and gone in the US and similar to what we experienced at home ...full story... | |
| Project Honduras – Assembling the Bricks and Mortar for Nation Building | 2/01/06 |
| If, as generally acknowledged, an army travels on its stomach, we can say that nations are built by linking a solid foundation with the laying of one building block at a time. Project Honduras is just one example ...full story... | |
| Meet the People Who Are Reaching Out to Others | 7/25/05 |
| Manos Amigas means more than friendly hands. The organization represents a new way to deliver medical services for the poor in Honduras. SATC believes the strength of the program we are sponsoring resides in the proposition that Hondurans will manage the clinic well, if we support their growing capacity to do so. We would like you to meet some of the people in Manos ...full story... | |
| Phase I Clinic Serves The Needy | 7/17/05 |
| How far is Honduras from Broadway, The Great White Way, The Big Apple, The City that Never Sleeps? Well it’s pretty far! You could say that there is a Gulf between us – and in more ways than one. To the local Honduran, we are Norte Americanos, North Americans or gringos. SATC is located 100 miles south of New York City, in the idyllic setting of Chester County ...full story... | |
| Obtaining Medical Aid Not Always Easy | 7/10/05 |
| The early bird gets the worm – Even in Honduras! It’s 5:00 am and people are starting to line up outside the clinic because they know that it is first come, first served. It is a “gringo” clinic so people assume it’s good. Our administrative aide, Heydy, does the initial screening and triage on patients. She and Dr. Alvarado have an idea of who is a local resident...full story... | |
| Living in the Trenches of Poverty | 7/3/05 |
| People line up outside the clinic gate starting at 5:00 am. At 7:00 am Heydy our administrative assistant arrives, starts the interview process to qualify and triage the patients. A guard on the premises opens the clinic at 8:00 am and closes the gates at noon, during which time the doctor tries to see as many patients as possible. When the lines are particularly long, the doctor across the...full story... | |
| Trudging Through the 'Burbs - or Should We Say Barrios? | 7/3/05 |
| An eight member team from Manos Amigos went into the 21 Barrios (wards or districts) of La Entrada, going house-to-house to prepare an Enquery or Survey Report identifying the poorest families. The “poorest” of the poor, totaling 637 families, were given special cards to gain access to our medical clinic whenever a family member is sick and needs medical attention. In this...full story... | |
Announcements
- Crossroads receives Best In America certification. Less than 2,000 charities in the US receive this seal. To read the full story, click here.
- Serving at the Crossroads featured in The Daily Local. To read the full story, click here.
- Serving at the Crossroads featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. To read the full story, click here.
Clinic Update
- Clinic nears 25,000 mark in treating patients during first 3 years of serving people in La Entrada
- Well drilling completed on new clinic site
- Eagle Scout project collected more than $15,000 worth of over-the-counter medications
- Audiometer donated, which will speed up examinations, enabling patients to qualify for hearing aids
- ASIDE, the Association for Ecological and Social Economic Development, signed cooperative agreement with Manos Amigas to supply food, bedding and medical supplies
- Finland's Project Norte partnered with Manos Amigas by providing funds for well construction, waste water disposal and environmental preservation of new clinic site
- First micro-enterprise development project receives grant to test market "high-end" fabric products sewn in Honduras for sale in US with portion of profits to support the clinic
Headlines
Crossroads Gets a Make-over - New Logo Design (12/7/08) ...full story...
Administering Hearing aid tests (12/6/08) ...full story...
Amigos de Jesus Orphanage and the hand of Providence (12/5/08) ...full story...
Your buying decisions can help the Manos Amigas Clinic (12/4/08) ...full story...
What would you do if you had access to a Rainforest? (12/4/08) ...full story...
Clinic Acquires New Bus to Pick up Patients (12/3/08) ...full story...
News at Noon – Lights, camera Action! (12/2/08) ...full story...
Once is Not Enough - Geisinger Brigade returns with more healthcare help (12/1/08) ...full story...
Best in America certification leads Crossroads to 2009 Combined Federal Campaign for Charitable Giving (11/14/08) …Full story…
Rotary Seeks to Equip New Clinic Blood Laboratory (5/5/08) ...full story...
Manos Amigas Makes Good Use of Medical Network (4/18/08) ...full story...
World Bank – A potential source of funding for developing nations with a record of accomplishment (4/6/08) ...full story...
Manos Amigas and SATC calls on the Honduran Ministry of Health (4/5/08) ...full story...
The Blue Baby – a Special Case for Humanitarian Assistance (3/7/08) ...full story...
Geisinger Brigade – Medical Volunteers from the Keystone State (3/1/08) ...full story...
A Report from the State Capitol - Harrisburg, PA (2/4/08) ...full story...
Threads of Hope - A new Micro-enterprise Arises (1/15/08) ...full story...
The Gift of Sound (12/18/07) ...full story...
Daring to be Different - Scout Earns Eagle Award (11/5/07) ...full story...
Living Water… but first you must smite the rock! (10/30/07) ...full story...