NetIP welcomes Hospital For Hope
NetIP North America is excited to announce its second year in alliance partnership with Hospitalfor Hope an organization whose aim is to fund a hospital in the rural and underserved Indiastate of Jharkhand where the population is 100,000. The hospital will run primarily on patient fees and be community planned and operated by HFH partner Jagriti Vihara- a stable NGO thathas been in existence for over 30 years.
Recently HFH hosted a fundraising event in Seattle with their partner Construction for Changewhere the HFH flew in the Executive Director of HFH from India to the US for the first time.Fundraising continued in Palo Alto bwith HFH partner One World Children’s Fund.
At the end of summer 2011, HFH will begin construction on the hospital. When asked how shefelt about continuing the partnership with NetIP NA, and taking the hospital initiative to the nextlevel (from fundraising to construction), HFH Communications Chair Melanie Kannokada had this to say: “Hospital for Hope is sincerely thankful for all the marketing and networking support it hasreceived through the NetIP NA alliance. We are happy to announce that we have achieved our fundraising goals and will begin the next phase of our work: constructing a hospital inJharkhand, India to serve over 100,000 villagers.”
NetIP NA and HFH share the bond of community service and its apparent why HFH volunteershave been so dedicated to raising funds for this hospital despite the recently depressingfundraising climate. Perhaps their passion was fueled because Jharkhand is nearly a threehour drive from Ranchi the nearest city and adverse weather (monsoons), and financialconditions (it takes 1 day’s salary to travel to Ranchi) prevent or deter villagers of Jharkhandfrom receiving proper medical attention. In fact malaria was eradicated from the region in the1980s but has made a resurgence in the area. Other conditions such as tuberculosis, dysentery,and typhoid are still prevalent. Corruption and mismanagement have left this rural region with asevere lack of critical infrastructure and public works unfunded.
NetIP NA celebrates its partner’s recent success and will continue to support this admirable cause. To find out how you can help, please visit their website at www.hospitalforhope.org
NetIP North America’s Alliance Partners can be found here.
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Great to see NetIp getting involved in a worthy charity like this.