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    • Our Founders
    • Board of Directors >
      • Dr. Wayne Centrone | President
      • Dean Boyer | Vice President
      • Lee Centrone | Treasurer
      • Dr. Robert Gehringer | Medical Director
      • Benjamin Grass
      • Margaret Hendrix
      • Stephen Manning
      • Tracey Chernay
      • Patrick Flanagan
      • Monte Roulier
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  • COVID-19 Updates for Perú
  • Projects
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      • NRP Train-the-Trainer Program
      • Programa de Reanimación Neonatal
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      • Blog de RCP Neonatal
    • Consulting >
      • Girasoles Home for Abandoned Youth
      • Girasoles Sanos Cycling Team
    • Connecting >
      • Anemia Prevention and Treatment Project
      • Ines Project for Medically Fragile Children
    • Serving >
      • Team Perú Outreach
  • Get Involved
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      • Anemia Project
      • Guardian Angel Program
      • Compassion Fund - Vida y Compasión
      • NRP Train-the-Trainer
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      • A Bridge to Change Event
      • A Bridge to Hope Event
      • 2020 A Bridges to Change Benefit Dinner
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Donor Impact Report 2017


Advocacy • Collaboration • Service


Health Bridges International advocates with marginalized communities, building bridges of collaboration, to serve and improve the health needs of all.


Letter from our Executive Director
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What a year! 

In 2017, HBI became an organization truly focused on building solid, health and well-being bridges for future generations. From our humble beginnings of short-term campaigns and volunteer-led projects, we are now an organization that is developing models for service delivery to underserved women and children, and linking these models to pathways for growth and expansion.

Through Advocacy, Collaboration, and Service, driven by the kindness and ongoing support of our generous donors, we have built historic partnerships and groundbreaking programs - assuring opportunities for each community we serve to source their own future. A few highlights you helped us achieve in 2017:
  • Launched a 3-year train-the-trainer program for pre-hospital and hospital providers in emergency care delivery in the city of Arequipa - alongside partners from Northwell Hospital System, Echo Medical Group, and The National Firefighters Association of Perú.
  • Provided health and hygiene education, dental care, and targeted health services to over 500 children in underserved communities around Perú.
  • Supported efforts on the ground to soften the effects of mass flooding and infrastructure damage, offering needed food, water, hygiene supplies, diapers, and cleaning supplies. 
  • Advanced a 5-year agreement with the Peruvian College of Obstetrics to bring neonatal resuscitation training to midwives and nurses throughout Perú. In 2017 we completed 42 NRP workshops with 650 participants and trained 27 new NRP trainers to further integrate our train-the-trainer program for advancing NRP skills and saving babies lives at birth.
  • Solidified ​The Ines Project for Medically Fragile Children, working with local health ambassadors to provide care and advocacy for medically fragile children and their families.
  • Tested a web-based health monitoring system for use with programs that serve former street youth, allowing us to monitor vulnerable youth and provide holistic care and integrated health assessments.
  • Partnered with Peruvian organizations to provide evidence based training and skills advancement for over 500 physicians, nurses, and midwives working in underserved areas.
  • Constructed a Tuberculosis Room with the Peruvian Ministry of Health in an underserved area of Alto Cayma, Perú - helping to expand the screening, treatment, and ongoing management of TB patients.
  • Collaborated with Linfield College of nurses to research the efficacy of partnering international nursing students in a service learning environment and the effects on their vocational trajectory.
Where do we go from here? Thanks to your generosity and ongoing support, we have built lasting bridges to improve health and opportunity for marginalized individuals and communities. And, the future is going to be filled with even more.

Stay tuned and please keep building bridges . . . one person at a time.

Thank you for your continued support in the work of HBI.


Dr. Wayne Centrone
Executive Director

"Collaboration requires connection. Connection requires relationship. HBI helps to build the relationships that allow people to meaningfully connect.”

- Padre Alex Busuttil, MSSP

TWELVE-YEAR FINANCIAL SUMMARY

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Over the past 12-years through the support of more than 2500 donors and more than 4400 donations, HBI has invested a total of $2.2 million 
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"Working with HBI and their team has taught me that a group of committed people truly can change the world.”
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- 2017 Team Perú trip participant
The joy and peace this experience brings me is hard to put into words. If I had to choose between this type of a vacation vs the typical vacations we think of, I would choose to spend my time with HBI-without a doubt.
​- Anita Boelter, multi-year Team Perú participant
Truly a first class organization - well-run, organized, and just the right people in their positions!
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​- 2016 Team Perú participant

A Few Highlights from 2017

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Broadened Our Impact

 We broadened our message of collaboration and partnerships around the world. Through an official invitation, we took the bridge building vision of HBI to the Vatican. Through a conscious decision to grow our partnerships and expand the impact and influence of our Ines Project for Medically Fragile Children, we attended a conference and a congress with organizations and leaders from around the globe.
Learn more about our trip to Rome.
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Inspired the Next Generation

We continued our commitment to expand service learning opportunities for students from diverse environments and settings to unite in a common effort to serve. Through collaborations with universities and colleges, we .brought together the next generation of change agents.
Learn more about our service learning trips.
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Expanded Our Efforts

Expanded our efforts to build evidence-based, scientifically validated models of service delivery and training support. Through collaboration with established subject matter experts, on-the-ground partners and other NGOs - we refined our neonatal resuscitation training program model, increased the impact of our first responder training program and increased the influence of our Ines Program for Medically Fragile Children.
 Learn more about our ongoing efforts to expand the impact of our models. 
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2017 in Pictures

Our Team

Board of Directors                                                                    HBI Staff

Dr. Wayne Centrone | President
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Dean Boyer | Vice President
​Dr. Natasha Polensek | Secretary ​
Lee Centrone
 | Treasurer

Dr. Robert Gehringer | Medical Director ​
Stacy Hall
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Margaret Hendrix
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Stephen Manning

Tracey Chernay

​Dr. Wayne Centrone | Executive Director ​​
Dr. Robert Gehringer| Medical Director
Benjamin Grass | Director of Operations
Karen Falkenstein | Nursing and Evaluation Director
Carmen Elena Zavala Thompson | Program Manager, Perú
Dr. Roberto Hermógenes Tarazona Ponte | Senior Health Advisor, Perú 
Epifania "Fany" Cotos Duran | Lead Nurse Care Coordinator, Perú
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Thank you for your continuing support. You are an integral part of the HBI Community. Each of you helps to bring possibility, resilience, and determination to our efforts. Together we build bridges of hope, and we cannot do it without you.
- The HBI Team
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