Earlier this month, Giving Children Hope’s Executive Director, Sean Lawrence, and Global Operations Coordinator, Mikaela Buchanan, visited El Salvador to meet with partners, both current and potential, see the impact our product and partnerships are having, and witness the need in the country. Read Mikaela’s reflection from the trip below. — As I walked through […]
February’s Volunteer of the Month
It’s not often that you see a retired cake decorator sorting medical supplies for an international project. Fortunately for Giving Children Hope, we get to experience it every week through Sandy! Born and raised in Fullerton, Sandy graduated from Buena Park High School. In 1980, she became a single mom. Despite all the difficulty that […]
GCHope Sends Medical Supplies to Ghana
GCHope has been working on this particular project for three years but now it’s finally Ghan-a! In all seriousness, there is a container in transit to Ghana as we speak. It is heading to a small rural community called Tema off the western coast of Africa. The container is filled with amazing machinery and equipment […]
A Heart for Africa
In a country where 42.6% of the population is HIV positive, Heart for Africa is making a big impact. Swaziland has close to 200,000 orphans and because of the severe impact AIDS is having on the adults in the country, it is projected that by 2020 there will be no adult population left. Heart for […]
GCHope’s Hidden Treasure
Giving Children Hope is filled with hidden treasures and Bob Brauchler is definitely one of them. Bob’s expertise and value to our organization is hardly given enough recognition. Many people know that GCHope sends medical supplies all over the world, but what you might not know is that we have someone here who meticulously picks […]
GCHope for Haiti
GCHope is thrilled that the results of a beautiful partnership between two common hearts for Haiti will change thousands of lives. It was about three years ago that a nonprofit called Three Strand Cord reached out to GCHope seeking the supplies to build a medical clinic. Unfortunately, at the time they couldn’t financially support such […]
Thanks for Giving Gary!
It’s “THANKS FOR GIVING” week! Thanksgiving came early here at GChope. This week is dedicated to a few amazing people/partners who have really been valuable members of our team or advocates for GCHope. We are so thankful for what they have done for this organization and most importantly for the lives we are striving to […]
GCHope Supplies Arrived in Uganda!
Great news ladies and gentlemen, the container sent to Bethesda Hospital in Soroti, Uganda has arrived! We are able to help supply this new hospital with medical and maternity units, a 20 unit- bed pediatric unit, a 24-hour emergency room and include surgery, physical therapy and emergency dental services. GCHope is thrilled to have this […]
Medical Supplies for El Salvador
Last Thursday a container with medical supplies for El Salvador was sent accompanied by our partner, Ixar Compos. Ixar is a remarkable individual that Giving Children Hope has treasured a relationship with. We are glad to assist him in the process of building a foundation for his home community in El Salvador to provide them […]
High schooler brings sight to India
A new partner of GCHope’s made it her goal to connect us with clinics in India where visual handicaps are overwhelmingly common. We thought the project idea was fantastic, and found our partner was just as phenomenal — a junior in high school named Neha, wise beyond her years, who turned a dream into reality […]