Worldwide Healing Hands

Our dedicated packing team A team of doctors and nurses from Worldwide Healing Hands is packed and ready to embark on its mission to Haiti later this week. The group will conduct important cervical cancer screenings and train Haitian doctors, midwives and staff in the screening and treatment methods. The latest mission follows Worldwide Healing…

We are pleased to announce a new program available for you as a valued supporter of Worldwide Healing Hands. This program allows you to book travel and shop online — the same things you are doing anyway — while earning CASH BACK on every purchase. For every purchase you make, Worldwide Healing Hands benefits as…

While the number of deaths due to Ebola and the emerging closer-to-home cases are the focus of daily news accounts, very little is being said about the toll on health care and number of deaths resulting indirectly. The recent Ebola outbreak

Thank you to the Knit Wits and the Stitch & Give Knitters for all these beautiful hand knit hats. They will keep our babies and children warm. The children had great fun choosing their “special” hat! Our special thanks to Sue Wilson, Claire Burkhead, Jan Wilson, Bev Bresso and Suzi DeFrancisci.

Dr. Chunmila & Dr. Asha Dr Asha Jha & Dr. Chunmila Maharjan Obstetrician / Gynecologists We “are very grateful to work with you in Ilam Camp. It was a wonderful experience working with you both in surgical and clinical cases. You and your whole team were very helpful.” We were “Grateful to work with you…

We have a wonderful and dedicated team of volunteer medical professionals lined up for our second mission to Nepal. We look forward to working side by side with the Nepali physicians, midwives and staff. Our goal is to share our skills in this remote area of Eastern Nepal so that our work is sustainable.

This is an excerpt from the documentary film The Edge of Joy by filmmaker Dawn Shapiro. The film examines maternal mortality at the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in the Kano region of Nigeria. It is one of the busiest maternity centers in all of West Africa. But, as the documentary shows, it’s still woefully

The Wisdom in Action organization honored Dr. Paula Dhanda for her outstanding work with her non-profit organization, Worldwide Healing Hands. The Unsung Hero Award was presented to her by his Holiness the Dalai Lama at the 2014 Unsung Heroes of Compassion luncheon in San Francisco. You can watch a recording of the event here.