Sustainable health solutions for rural Mexico
Our Summer Noticias Newsletter is now available and details our recent trip to Zapotitlan de Vadillo. Our incredible VEAs are featured and there are lots of cool photos too. Check it out by clicking here: Summer Newsletter Or go to: https://tiafoundation.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/newsletter081418.pdf
Want a way to give back to the community in relaxed, air-conditioned comfort? Tia is hosting a volunteer event with coffee and envelope stuffing fun. Our last party was a huge hit! The DeSoto Central Market at 915 N. Central Avenue in Phoenix has generously agreed to provide us with space upstairs on their mezzanine. Get out of the heat, enjoy great coffee, nibbles and conversation with other friends of Tia. We will be there from 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 19th (this Sunday) until all the envelopes are stuffed. Message Nate Harris at tionate@cox.net or call him at 602-601-6056 to RSVP. Thank you!
On July 27th, 84 people from Zapotitlan de Vadillo graduated from Tia’s Promotores course making it the largest graduating class in our history! We were quite spoiled and treated as honored guests in this gorgeous municipality. Tia is now serving 198,000 people through our 676 Promotores.
Above, you can see VEA (Volunteer Expedition Adventurer) Linda teach our class how to set up an I.V. with the help of her daughter Berkley (background) and Dr. Cuauhtemoc (far right). Linda is a nurse and clinician in California and Berkley is studying nursing. It was great hands on experience for both of them who performed triage for around 300 patients while we traveled from town to town.
If you are interested in a VEA experience, contact Nate Harris at 602-601-6056 or tionate@cox.net . We have another trip being organized for November.
The VEAs (Volunteer Expedition Adventurers) are arriving this afternoon. We will be heading out to the field before the sun comes up on Monday morning. Because we are unlikely to have either wifi or cell signal while we are there, our fun updates and pictures will be delayed a little bit. Dr. Frances, our public health specialist, designed these great stickers for the front of our medical kits.
We are very excited to greet Linda, Berkley, Matt and Kathryn at the airport. A great mix of people! A nurse, a nurse in training, a Tia Board Member and a freelance writer, all with something of true value to offer. Tomorrow morning, they will meet our world class medical brigade, made up of doctors, nurses, nutritionists and allied health professionals, led by our own Director of Medicine, Dr. Roberto Martinez. All of these marvelous people are giving up their time off, and their comforts of home, to change the lives of thousands of often-forgotten farmers and their families living in rural poverty.
We could not be more honored to have such a fine group of people, from both the U.S. and Mexico, join us to change the world, one village at a time.
Tia wants to take this opportunity to thank our VEAs, past and future, and our volunteers. We couldn’t do what we do without you! Volunteer Expedition Adventurers (VEAs) like Katie, pictured above, help us deliver essential services in the field, and give up their vacation, free time and hard earned money to make our projects successful. Each of them make a real difference in the lives of so many and they get to see that firsthand.
We also want to thank our volunteers in the U.S. and Mexico! Our U.S. volunteers help us with tasks like fun special events and mundane envelope stuffing, and they do it with joy and the spirit of giving back. Our Mexican volunteers also give up their vacation time or go without pay to be part of our brigades, teaching our Promotores and providing vital care to our villagers. Thank you all!!!!!!!!!
Check out our Spring Noticias newsletter which contains details about our recent project in San Julian, Jalisco. Plus, you can get more details about our Volunteer Expedition in July to Zapotitlan de Vadillo. Click here or go to:
https://tiafoundation.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/newsletter042018.pdf
This afternoon Tia will have 12 new Promotores in San Julian, Jalisco, bringing our total number of Promotores to 592. Tia’s Promotores in San Julian will be serving about 12,000 people, which means Tia is now serving about 192,000 people in Mexico. All 12 passed their course examinations and we are looking forward to the ceremony and the party to follow. Felicidades a todos! (Congratulations to all!)
We ran into one of our Promotoras, Marisela, who was trained during our project in San Juan De Los Lagos a few years ago. She works in the Casa de Salud (tiny clinic) in Santa Rosa de Lima, where the municipal doctor last visited in October. Laura and Roberto were so happy to see her taking care of her neighbors there!
