We are wheels-up in just 16 days and final preparations are underway! Nurses Heart to Heart will be hosting three day-long teaching intensives for nurses and other healthcare providers, including 20 nursing instructors from 2 nursing schools! We will cover the following topics:
hypertension
diabetes
cardiovascular diseases
And each afternoon, we will provide hands-on CPR and choking recovery training (aka the Heimlich maneuver). Registration for each day is full and we've got a robust waitlist going.
We will also be visiting nursing schools, hospitals, community clinics, and maternity hospitals. Some of these visits will be to donate the training tools we are bringing, like the CPR manikins. We’ll also be traveling to visit a special maternity ward in a hospital two hours away to donate difficult-to-come-by medical supplies and to discuss their training needs for our next trip. We'll also be training the nurses and staff there in CPR and donating a set of manikins to them.
Here at home, those supplies are being delivered every day: infant, child, and CPR manikins; Heimlich maneuver practice vests; fetal dopplers for local midwives; printed handouts and folders for each participant—the list goes on and on!
We need your help: because of your generosity, Nurses Heart to Heart is able to provide continuing education, resources, and medical supplies free of charge to the nurses, midwives, and healthcare providers we serve.
The budge for this trip to Uganda is $27,902. The "big-ticket items" are:
Teaching Venue Rental & Lunch for Attendees: $4,920
Local Transportation: $2,700*
Manikins and Other Supplies for Teaching and Donation: $10,382
Together, we can meet critical training needs that would be otherwise out of reach for our Ugandan colleagues. Your support makes it possible! Would you consider making a contribution to our new project in Uganda? You can click the button below to give.
As we train healthcare providers to train others—and provide them with the teaching tools to do so—we are ensuring that the knowledge and hope continue to spread. Thank you for being a part of this vital work!
*It’s always fascinating to see what all is required to make a trip like this happen. There are obvious elements, like airfare, lodging and meals. And each NHTH trip comes with its own quirks: for example, local transportation costs for this trip are higher than usual.
One reason for that is our visit to a special maternity ward in a hospital two hours away to donate medical supplies and to discuss their training needs. But another reason is that regular transportation costs are extremely high in Kampala—so high that travel to a training like ours would be out of reach for many nurses. So to remove that barrier, we will be providing transportation to and from our teaching venue.
