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International & National Relief Agencies & Christian Missions

 

Baylor now has a family nurse practitioner program with an emphasis on missions. Contact us at Baylor School of Nursing Home Site Also contact us with additional links/agencies. Click here for missions

 

Action Against Hunger

875 Avenue of the Americas

NY, NY 10001

Phone 212.967.5480

www.aah-usa.org

 

American Friends Service Committee

1501 Cherry St.

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Telephone: 1-888-588-2372

www.afsc.org

 

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

711 Third Avenue 10th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Telephone: 1-212-885-0832

1-212-885-0889

www.jdc.org

 

American Red Cross International Response Fund

P.O. Box 37243

Washington, DC 20013

Telephone: 1-800-HELP-NOW

Spanish: 1-800-257-7575

www.redcross.org

 

American Refugee Committee

2344 Nicollet Ave S. Suite 350

Minneapolis, MN 55404

Telephone: 1-612-872-7060

 

Baptist World Aid

6733 Curran Street

McLean, VA 22101-3804

Telephone: (703) 790-8980

www.bwanet.org

 

Brother's Brother Foundation/Nicaragua

1501 Reedsdale St., Suite 3005

Pittsburgh, PA 15233-2341

Telephone: (412) 321-3160

 

CARE

151 Ellis Street N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30303-2426

Telephone: 1-800-235-7385

www.care.org

 

Catholic Relief Services

P.O. Box 17090

Baltimore, MD 21203-7090

Telephone: 1-800-235-2772

www.catholicrelief.org

 

Childreach

155 Plan Way

Warwich, RI 02886-1099

Telephone: 1-800-556-7918

 

Christian Children's fund

2821 Emerywood Parkway

P.O. Box 26484

Richmond, VA 23261-6484

Telephone: 1-800-776-6767

www.christianchildrensfund.org

 

Christian Medical and Dental Society

PO Box 7500

Bristol, TN 37621-7500

Phone 423.844.1000

www.cmds.org

 

Church World Service

28606 Phillips Street

P.O. Box 968

Elkhart, Indiana 46515

Telephone: 1-800-297-1516, Ext. 222

www.churchworldservice.org

 

 

Doctors Without Borders

6 East 39th Street., 8th

New York, NY 10016

Telephone: 1-888-312-0392

www.dwb.org

 

Feed the Children

Box 36

Oklahoma City, OK 73101

Telephone: 1-800-328-2122

 

Food for the Hungry International

7729 E. Greenway Rd.

Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Telephone: 1-800-2-HUNGER

www.fh.org

 

International Medical Corps

11500 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 506

Los Angeles, CA 90064

Telephone: 1-800-481-4462

www.imc-la.org

 

International Orthodox Christian Charities

Box 630225

Baltimore, MD 21263

Telephone: 1-410-243-9820

www.iocc.org

 

International Rescue Committee

122 E. 42nd St.

New York, NY 10168

Telephone: 877-REFUGEE

www.intrescom.org

 

Lutheran World Relief

Church Street Station

P.O. Box 6186

New York, NY 10277-1738

Telephone: 1-800-597-5972

 

Map International

2200 Glynco Parkway

P.O. Box 215000

Brunswick, GA 31521-5000

Telephone: 1-800-225-8550

www.map.org

 

Mercy Corps International

3030 S.W. First Avenue

Portland, OR 97201

Telephone: (503) 796-6827

www.mercycorps.org

 

Mercy Ships

PO Box 2020

Garden Valley, TX

Phone 800.772.7747

www.mercyships.org

 

Oxfam America

Central America Relief Fund

26 West Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Telephone: 1-800-77OXFAM

www.oxfam.org

 

Partners of the Americas

1424 K Street NW

Suite 700

Washington, DC 20005

Telephone: (202) 628-3300

 

Peace Corps

1111 20th Street NW

Washington, DC 20526

Phone 800.424.8580

www.peacecorps.gov

 

Salvation Army World Service Office

615 Slaters Lane

Alexandria, VA 22313

Telephone (703) 684-5528

 

Save the Children

Hurricane Mitch Emergency Appeal

P.O. Box 975-M

54 Wilton Road

Westport, Connecticut 06880

Telephone: 1-800-243-5075

www.savethechildren.org

 

Texas Baptist Men - Disaster Relief

Baptist General Convention of Texas

333 N. Washington

Dallas, TX 75246

(214) 828-5100

 

U.J.A. Federations of North America

111 Eighth Ave. Suite 11E

New York, NY 10011-5201

Telephone: 1-212-566-8610

 

United Methodist Committee on Relief

475 Riverside Drive, Room 330

New York, NY 10115

Telephone: (212) 870-3816

 

World Concern

19303 Fremont Ave. North

Seattle, Wash. 98133

Telephone: (800) 755-5022

www.worldconcern.org

 

World Relief

P.O. Box WRC

Department 3

Wheaton, Illinois 60189

Telephone: 1-800-535-5433

www.worldrelief.org

 

World Vision

P.O. Box 9716

Federal Way, Washington 98063-9716

Telephone: 1-888-511-6565

www.worldvision.org

 

Missions (Thanks to Chandra Marriott, Meghan O'Mahoney, Amy Turner, and Jennifer Wheaton)

Protestant Long Term Missions (>2 years)

 

http://www.guyana-missions.org/ See the results of medical help reaching the South American country of Guyana. Personal phone numbers and e-mail addresses given so you can get involved. Includes nurse's Supplies Packing list.

http://www.partnersinprogress.org/ Medical missions opportunities listed by country.

http://www.emmf.com/dompics.htm Episcopal medical missions. Includes statistics for South America and the Caribbean.

http://www.medicalmissions.com/ Christian medical missions organization.

http://www.cureinternational.com/ Assemblies of God church planting and medical help. List of upcoming trips.

http://healnation.org/ Christian medical mission organization whose purpose is to serve underdeveloped communittees. Personal contacts available.

http://www.iugm.org/ Lists resources (by Texas city)for information to get involved.

http://www.sim.org/relief.html Christian medical missions opportunities

http://www.globalmission.org/megamenu.htm Megamenu of missions opportunities. Something for everyone.

http://www.cmds.org/domestic.htm Medical missions opportunities within the U.S.

 

Protestant Short Term Missions (2 weeks to 2-3 years)

http://www.missionaryventures.org/us_team.htm Details on short term missions.

http://jps.net/rodg/medical.htm Short term mission opportunities

 

Cultural Issues in Healthcare

http://www.hslib.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed/ Ethnomed Excellent site from Washington University + covers several cultures, detailed discussions, materials in several languages

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/hssb/cultdiv/cultdiv/home.htm A site similar to the one on which this manual is based. More populations are covered. Excellent work from our friends in Australia!

http://www.sunyit.edu/library/culturedmed/contact/index.html CultureMed has information on refugee populations + many links

http://www.DiversityRx.org/ Newer site - general orientation

Other Health Related Sites

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ PubMed: To me, the easiest, most comprehensive data base with abstracts of articles

http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/ Grateful Med: Easy to use data base with abstracts of articles

http://www.who.int/ World Health Organization site

http://www.cdc.gov/ Centers for Disease Control - links to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (a vital resource for communicable and other diseases)+ up-to-date information on health issues.

http://www.baylor.edu/~Nursing/reflinks.html Baylor's links to searching medical and nursing literature: Very useful with many means of finding data. You won't need any more than this

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/international.htm Oxfam's site

http://www2.healthnet.org/MGS/ Medicine and Global Survival - a large site with focus on justice and related issues as they apply to health

http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup Census Lookup - 1990 Census data

http://www.fedstats.gov More government statistics - from 70 agencies

http://www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/ophs/index.html US Department of Health and Human Services home page: From here you can access the Office of Minority Health, Public Health Service, Refugee Health, etc.

http://www.healthfinder.gov/search.htm Healthfinder: Extensive site - diseases, treatments, etc.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/index.html Library of Congress site - has extensive "Country Studies"

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ CIA World Factbook - Excellent source of information on countries of the world

General Refugee Sites

http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugee_health.htm The site on which this book (contact Texas Dept of Health for hard copy) - updated regularly

http://www.archq.org/ American Refugee Committee

http://www.elca.org/dcs/lirs.html Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

http://www.irsa-uscr.org/rv/rv.html Refugee Voices

http://www.jvs-boston.org/ Refugee Web

http://www.irsa-uscr.org/ Immigration & Refugee Services of America

http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/jrsindex.htm Journal of Refugee Studies (abstracts of articles)

http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/refqtl/ Refugee Survey Quarterly (very brief abstracts of articles). Primarily of interest to people in refugee administration.

http://www.state.gov/www/global/prm/index.html U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

http://www.unhcr.ch/ UNHCR

http://www.icrc.ch/unicc/icrcnews.nsf/DocIndex/home_eng?OpenDocument ICRC

http://wwwnotes.reliefweb.int/ International updates, maps, jobs, links - Go there

http://www.christianrelief.org/ Christian Relief Services

http://www.refugees.org/ U.S. Committee for Refugees home page

http://198.139.157.2/units/umcor/refugees.html United Methodist Committee on Relief + links

http://www.immigration-usa.com/ Information on immigration to U.S.

Torture and Related

Survivors International: Highly recommended. Gives specific information on torture and treatment of victims. http://www.survivorsintl.org/

RAINN: is a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week national hotline for victims of sexual assault. The toll-free hotline is: 1-800-656-HOPE. The Website has other information. http://www.rainn.org/

Thoughtful links and more on sexual assault. http://www.mcs.net/~kathyw/abuse.html

Canadian Center for Victims of torture. http://www.icomm.ca/ccvt/

World Organization Against Torture. http://www.omct.org/

Torture Survivors Network. http://www.pacinfo.com/eugene/tsnet/

Physicians for Human Rights. http://www.phrusa.org/research/torrem.html

Asian Refugees and Immigrants Health-Related Sites

General

http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/asian_health.html Baylor's site - practical information for health care providers

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html/ A huge site, excellent resource

http://www.apiahf.org/apiahf/ Asian & Pacific Islander Health Forum - Exactly that

http://www.aapcho.org Association of Asian Pacific Islander Community Health Organizations

Burmese (Information on Burmese health beliefs and practices requested: Submit papers by mail to Charles Kemp, Baylor University School of Nursing, 3700 Worth Street, Dallas Texas 75214 or Charles_Kemp@baylor.edu)

http://www.burmacare.org/ Refugee Care Project for Burmese

http://www.burma.net/ Free Burma

http://www.freeburmacoalition.org Free Burma

http://www.shweinc.com/links/society_culture.shtml Information and links to other sites, including Karen, Shan, Christian, Buddhist, and others ñ Excellent

http://www.soros.org/burma/heathned.html Information on Burma

http://www.ayeyarwady.com Nothing on refugees, but the photographs capture some of the magic of Burma

Cambodian

http://members.aol.com/bsharp26/cambodia/links.html Cambodian/Khmer Links to sites

http://www.cambodia.org/ Cambodia.org

http://www.kampuchea.com/ Kampuchea.com

http://www.angkorwat.org/cambodia/ Angkor Wat.org

http://www.dithpran.org/ Dith Pran Education Site

http://hlunix.hl.state.ut.us/hrm/ethnic/cambodia.html Cambodian Health Resources List: Extensive listing of Khmer language documents. Have a look

http://www.yale.edu/cgp Cambodian Genocide Project

Laotian

http://www.lao.net/ Laotian links

http://hlunix.hl.state.ut.us/hrm/ethnic/laotian.html Laotian/Lao Health Resources List

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/cdr/hmong/ Hmong links

Vietnamese

http://hlunix.hl.state.ut.us/hrm/ethnic/vietname.html Vietnamese Health Resource List

http://www.dgim.ucsf.edu/viet/viet.html Vietnamese health education - Good practical site

http://www.vietconnection.com/ Information, news about Vietnamese in the U.S. and elsewhere

http://www.vncentral.com/ Big site with a lot of information and links - check it out

http://neptune.netimages.com/~gallery/ Links

Bosnian

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/4634/ a home page that gives some background on Bosnia

http://www.public.usit.net/michaela/index.html International Bosnian Student Homepage. Includes links

gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/peace/yugo/crimes Comprehensive gopher site (focus on genocide) in Bosnian and English

http://www.students.haverford.edu/vfilipov/home2.html The Community of Bosnia Foundation ñ an extensive and recommended site. See their list of "Recommended Books on Bosnia" below

http://www.phrusa.org/about/index.html Physicians for Human rights site. Focuses on genocide and related

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/chap/courses/w-rel/bosnia.htm Some in-depth information on religion in Bosnia

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~bosnia/ More on war crimes and related

Cuban

http://www.paho.org/ Pan American Health Organization - an immensely helpful site

http://www.healthnet.org/ I have not completely explored this site, but it looks like a helpful means of exchanging information

http://cuba.tulane.edu/index.html Tulane's Cuban Studies Institute

Ethiopian and Eritrean

http://www.africapolicy.org/index.shtml Africa Policy Information Center - Information on African nations and issues + links

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ettoc.html Library of Congress "Country Study" on Ethiopia

http://eritrea.org/ Eritrean information

http://www.ethemb.se/ Ethiopian Embassy

http://website.lineone.net/~osg.web/ Oromo site

http://www.circus.org/nacoej.htm Site on and for Ethiopian Jews - information and links

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/ethiopia/aau_home.html Connect to Addis Ababa University

http://www.unhcr.ch/world/afri/eritrea.htm United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Report

http://128.95.122.195/clinical/ethnomed/voices/ethiopian.html Ethnomed on Ethiopian refugees

http://128.95.122.195/clinical/ethnomed/voices/eritrean.html Ethnomed on Eritreans

Haitian

http://www.haitibook.com/html/haiti_sites.html Excellent listing of links

http://www.egallery.com/haiti.html Haitian art, including Voodoo flags - definitely interesting

http://www.arcana.com/voodoo/voodoo.html Excellent site for Voodoo information

http://www.j51.com/~spwoody/haitilinks.htm Haitian links - not all current, but still, worth a look

http://mh101.infi.net/~loa/ the homepage of LePeristyle Haitian Sanctuary. Much information on African religions from an Afrocentric perspective. Want to get a better feel for Voodoo?

http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/exhibit/tour2.htm Limited collection of Voodoo art

http://www.herald.com/americas/carib/haiti/ News & other information + links to Haitian sites

Iraqi - little available on health except regarding conditions inside Iraq

http://iraqfoundation.org/news/index.html The Iraq Foundation - News and information focusing on human rights and abuses in Iraq

http://www.unhcr.ch/world/mide/iraq.htm United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees country profile + links

Kurdish: Little available on health - much on human rights and from perspective of different factions

http://i-cias.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct-frame.pl?http://www.i-cias.com/e.o/iran_4.htm Encyclopedia of the Orient

http://www.khrp.org/index.html Kurdish Human Rights Project

Laotian: See above under Asian Refugees

Liberian: Again, little information other than political

http://www.refugees.org/world/countryindex/liberia.htm U.S. Committee for Refugees Report on Liberia

http://www.geopages.com/SoHo/Cafe/1718/jjkurdishrefugees.html A curious page with writing about Kurdish, Liberian, and other refugees

http://home.global.co.za/~dafrig/dental-division/OpS.htm Dental health program

Somali

http://www.refugees.org/world/countryindex/somalia.htm U.S. Committee on Refugees report on Somalia + photos

http://www.africanews.org/east/somalia/ News from Africa

http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00050795.htm Report on screening for Somali refugees in Kenya - link back to MMWR

http://somalinet.com/ Somali site with little on health

http://128.95.122.195/clinical/ethnomed/voices/somali.html Ethnomed on Somali refugees. Also http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ethnomed/somali.htm

http://www.healthnet.org/cihc/ Center for International Health and Cooperation - see Somali program

http://members.tripod.com/~MohamudS/Somalichatline A Somali chat room - go there with questions

Sudanese: Most information on internet is political. War! War! War!

http://www.i-cias.com/e.o/sudan.htm Encyclopedia of the Orient

http://www.sudan.net/main1.html Sudan Net for and by Sudanese

 

Vietnamese: See Asian Refugees above

 

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