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Black River Project Mission:
The Black River Project is a fully incorporated, non-profit organization that collects, organizes, and delivers medicines, medical supplies, equipment, training, and related support services and relief to medically- underserviced and impoverished communities throughout the globe. The Black River Project (BRP) family consists of the Director and Founder, the Board of Directors and a network of volunteers.
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NEWS
Medical team travels to Ghana
December 2002 - January 2003
The BRP continued ongoing work in Ghana, both delivering medical supplies to several clinics and hospitals, as well as assessing the medical needs of refugee camps there.
February 2003
The BRP's Director met with Prof. Errol Y. St. A. Morrison, president of the Diabetes Association, to discuss the feasibility of arranging a collaboration between the Diabetes Association in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, with the Diabetes center in Kingston, Jamaica.
The Director also met with the Ministry of Health in Jamaica regarding the proposed delivery of medical supplies to Kingston Public Hospital and Black River Hospital.
March 2003
During a trip to Ghana, the BRP is engaged in the following itinerary:
- Delivery of neo-natal supplies for intensive care at Legon Hospital
- Delivery to Kokrobite Clinic
- Assessment of medical needs at refugee camps
- Hiring local physicians to provide medical services to refugees
- Documentation through video interviews with refugees and medical staff at refugee camps
- Prospective meeting with medical administrators to best determine needs for future delivery of medical supplies
- Prospective meeting with doctors/medical staff at Accra Hospital to discuss HIV/AIDS training for the medical personnel, to be conducted with a specialist on a return project in 2003
March 2002
BRP is traveling to Bucharest where we will assist in helping two local orphanages with their medical needs.
The BRP will then secure a Romanian doctor with expertise in pediatric aid so that he will travel with the team to the remote mining town of Petrosahi located in the Carpathian Mountains. In Petrosahi we will establish a relationship with several dozen local children who normaly have no acces to medical care and often go untreated for months and in some cases years.
A local pharmacist who has been the only source of medical guidance for these children has alerted us to these needs.
The BRP, in cooperation with the phamacist and physician will address the pressing need for medical care and provide hope and comfort to these forgoten children.
April 2002
The director will travel to Washington DC and attend the Cambodian New Year celebration. We are now preparing to return to Cambodia where we have ongoing projects.
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