A Vision of Hope: Watch the Cataract And Medical Mission in Action – Riobamba, Ecuador
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Usman Aslam, Volunteers for A Promise To Peru – via The Box
The NYIT Blog The Box recently featured an article on Usman Aslam, one of our dedicated volunteers! Photo source nyit.edu Aslam places an IV line on a patient waiting for cataract surgery in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Meet Usman Aslam, Presidential Global Fellow “The best part of going on medical missions is being able to see the immediate effects...
Christine Garcia on TEDx – A Promise to Peru
How do community organizations get their start and what keeps the momentum going to continue service to others? This is a talk on how individual ideas become flourishing community projects.
Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission June 15-20, 2015 to Guayaquil, Ecuador
Summary: On behalf of the Board of Directors of A Promise to Peru, Inc. we wanted to thank each and every one of our participants for your generous donation of time, expertise, personal expense and for your passion of assisting those less fortunate in receiving quality medical and surgical care in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This year, for the...
Press: Stony Brook Medicine Today
PRESS: Annual Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Countries in Need Patients eagerly await their eye patches to be removed to see what their newfound vision will be like. Three Stony Brook University School of Medicine alums are part of a nonprofit organization called A Promise to Peru, Inc. that is set to travel to...
Short Hills eye surgeon will embark on surgical mission to Ecuador
PRESS via NJ.com: Short Hills eye surgeon will embark on surgical mission to Ecuador Dr. Michael Farbowitz, eye surgeon and medical director of Short Hills Ophthalmology, will be travelling to Guayaquil, Ecuador this June as a participant in a cataract surgical and medical mission to treat the impoverished residents in that location. The mission, organized...
Annual Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Countries in Need
Press: Stony Brook Medicine today Annual Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission to Countries in Need Patients eagerly await their eye patches to be removed to see what their newfound vision will be like. Three Stony Brook University School of Medicine alums are part of a nonprofit organization called A Promise to Peru, Inc. that is...
April 2015 Fundraiser a Success!
April 2015 Fundraiser a Success! Thank you to La Parrilla Restaurant in Port Jefferson NY for helping our organization raise thousands of dollars for needed medical supplies. Thank you to all the medical students who helped organize this memorable evening. More photos to follow…
Kings Park R.J.O. Intermediate School – Community Awareness Program
Kings Park R.J.O. Intermediate School has a Community Awareness Program aimed at increasing the student’s awareness of the needs of others. Interested students are invited to monthly meetings where parent volunteers will introduce a need and a project to help meet that need. The children collected sunglasses, reading glasses and children’s prescription glasses for A Promise...
November 2014 A Promise to Peru’s Portable Ultrasound Research Study Update
Drs. Robin Cunningham and George Coritsidis, worked with Stony Brook medical students Michael Subrize, Amy Fuller, and Bennett Hong on a research study involving the use of portable ultrasound in aiding mission physicians in making accurate diagnoses. Their poster: Portable Ultrasonography Enhances Diagnostic Capability in the Peruvian Andes was presented in June 2014 at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference in Washington, D.C. The annual Consortium of Universities...
Annual Peruvian Item Sale – A Success
Many thanks to all who supported our annual Peruvian item sale. The funds collected from this event raised over 3,000 dollars which will be used to purchase needed medical and surgical supplies for the 2015 mission.