A great BIG thank you to Hamptons Online
the arts, style, home and garden,
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Thanks to one of our wonderful volunteers, Nancy Weeks, RN, Blanca’s House was able to make contact with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, Senior Arts & Entertainment Reporter with www.Hamptons.com. His substantial donation of advertisement space on the website is immeasurable. To meet the site’s specifications, Evan Miller and Valerie Simpson now know how to design and create a “wide-skyscraper animated banner!” Advertisements change and rotate on the site over the course of the day…so the first time one goes to Hamptons.com, the Blanca’s House ad may not be visible. The advertisements may be found on the right sidebar of the website.
And our advertisement is right here:
http://www.hamptons.com/Home-And-Garden
Blanca’s House YouTube Channel
“We’re pleased to inform you that Blanca’s House has been selected to participate in the YouTube Nonprofit program! After careful review, we chose your organization based on the strength of your application and the potential to benefit from exposure on YouTube. We’re excited to be able to help you reach your target audience with public service messages using the YouTube Nonprofit Program.”
Our new YouTube Channel will be up-and-running soon. Valerie Simpson and Evan Miller have been working together on the design and uploads to provide Blanca’s House with another venue to raise awareness and support for all the hard work of our treasured volunteers.
Blanca’s House Is Granted Product Donations
(Hicksville, N.Y.) Blanca’s House, a Long Island-based nonprofit serving the medical and dental needs in of children and their families in Latin America, has been selected as a recipient for product donations from Henry Schein Cares, the global social responsibility program of Henry Schein, Inc., the largest distribution of health care products and services to office-based practitioners. Henry Schein Cares helps to increase access to health care for underserved communities through the donation of medical, dental and animal health supplies to community-based health professionals and their organizations. As a recipient of the program, Blanca’s House will receive a broad selection of health care products and supplies, valued between $5,000 and $25,000, throughout the course of the two-year program cycle. The grant will enable Blanca’s House to serve more members of the Latin American community, thereby expanding its ability to provide care to underserved children and adults.
Blanca’s house: Nicaragua medical mission trip
Blanca’s House is a Hicksville-based, non-profit organization of volunteer healthcare professionals who donate their time to make available free, invaluable medical treatment for children and their families in our host countries. Whether through surgery, medical supplies, or educational outreach, Blanca’s House provides twenty-first century medicine to the underprivileged.
Meet a Blanca’s House Volunteer
SyossetPatch
About Town
by Susan Leaderman | December 9, 2010
VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
REALTOR DEVOTES TIME TO WORTHY CAUSE
Robin Feld: REALTOR® by Day, Philanthropist by Day and Night.
REALTOR® Robin Feld devotes her time to her charity, Blanca’s House. As Syosset resident Robin Feld walks in you know a power-house just entered the building. Her energy is like that of two 18-year olds combined and her drive and perseverance is evident the second you start conversing. When she is not selling homes through Charles Rutenberg Realty, she is devoting the rest of her time to an organization she helped found: Blanca’s House.
There are some people who like to give during the holiday season then there are folks like Robin who give of themselves all year long. These special individuals work passionately for a cause that doesn’t get a lot of publicity and often no one has ever heard about it.
It all started with two friends sharing a dream. When Robin met Galo Burbano, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, she knew her life would change forever, all for good. Galo grew up in a poor town in Ecuador where his mother’s love and selflessness uplifted their community and served as the inspiration and namesake for this charity. Blanca’s House is devoted to going on medical missions to help underprivileged people in developing countries, mostly in South America and Central America. “We go with a team of doctors, nurses, and assistants and perform hundreds of life-saving surgeries all in a week’s time,” she said. “Five years later, nine missions completed, and 2,700 patients treated!”
The team is up at the crack of dawn and work non-stop until 11 p.m. Tirelessly, the doctors and nurses perform all types of procedures: cleft palate, tumor removals, gall bladder, fibroid, and thyroid surgeries, just to name a few. Finding out about Blanca’s house by word-of-mouth, these volunteers come from all over the USA and pay about $1,200 out-of-pocket to be part of this miraculous journey (this includes their transportation, lodging and meals).
In the meantime, Robin is shipping tons of medical supplies and equipment such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, and crutches, all donated. When they arrive they set up wherever they can, oftentimes at a clinic or local hospital. “It looks like a MASH unit,” she said. “You just never know what you what is going to happen until you get there. Our mantra is MMF- Maintain Maximum Flexibility.”
“I recently got back from El Salvador and this spring I will be going on my next overseas assignment,” she said. “We are also gearing up for a future mission. In 2012, Blanca’s House is going to perform 20 hip replacement surgeries in Nicaragua”.
Their motto: every child counts, every family matters. So if you would like to volunteer your time or give to this worthwhile charity please go to www.blancashouse.com.
Also, check out their Junior Volunteers program available to kids ages 14-18 who are interested in the medical field or helping others. Each volunteer must be accompanied by an adult.
Young Romanians and Their Volunteer Actions Abroad
With a great deal of energy, time and personal contribution, Cristina Peach Ciucur, young Romanian professional living in New York, has decided to get involved, as a volunteer, in supporting a team of American doctors to perform surgeries for poor people in El Salvador.
A model of volunteering and altruistic action I am sure many of us would like to see happening in Romania some day.Joining a team of 44 surgeons and specialized staff of Blanca’s House, for one marathon week of intensive surgeries and medical care, Cristina has been helping with translation between the two teams of doctors and the patients and overall organization of the action.
The outcome of their effort were over 200 lives saved and people treated, a very impressive one, considering the amount of time and the poor state of local equipment and resources.
Over 200 people will be operated by foreign doctors…
Quoted from Strada32.com, a site for young professional Romanians abroad: Read the full article here
Junior Volunteers in the News
The following article features Neha Kinariwalla, a Blanca’s House Junior Volunteer, and was taken from Newsday’s This Week:
Going Global: Medical Missions Improve Lives
Quoted from ELIH newsletter:
In addition to their work with patients here at Eastern Long Island Hospital (ELIH), a group of physicians and technicians has been going above and beyond, donating their time and services to Medical Missions around the globe.
