Raising $1500 for Medical Supplies!
Help Us Raise $1500 by January 31st
to purchase Critical Medical Supplies
for Our HIV & AIDS Patients
in inland Costa Rica!!!
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Alejandra*, a mother who is HIV-positive, has cancer. Undergoing chemotherapy in the midst of a pandemic and unable to work, she is not able to afford things like toothpaste, vitamins, lotion for her dry skin on her head after her hair fell out, as well as Ensure protein drinks and probiotic supplements to help her not lose to much weight, something that is particularly dangerous for someone with a compromised immune systems like Alejandra*.
For this 2020 Christmas season & 2021 New Year,
LoveAIDS has done an assessment regarding the urgent needs of our HIV&AIDS patients
as well as travel complications and decided that our priority this season is providing urgently needed medical supplies for our HIV & AIDS patients in Costa Rica.
We are partnering with the same local Costa Rican workers we have in the past
and are sending our funds in two directions:
LoveAIDS has done an assessment regarding the urgent needs of our HIV&AIDS patients
as well as travel complications and decided that our priority this season is providing urgently needed medical supplies for our HIV & AIDS patients in Costa Rica.
We are partnering with the same local Costa Rican workers we have in the past
and are sending our funds in two directions:
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Asociacion Cuenta Conmigo is a nonprofit organization in Puntarenas, one of the poorest provinces of Costa Rica. With a 30% poverty rate, almost all of Puntarenas is rural with almost no infrastructure or resources for HIV & AIDS patients. The organization Asociacion Cuenta Conmigo itself has almost no resources funneled into it, and LoveAIDS’ partnership with it to help HIV & AIDS patients will be deeply felt.
Hogar de la Esperanza is a nonprofit organization and facility in the neighborhood of Paso Ancho. It is in a low-income, high-crime neighborhood in the capitol of Costa Rica, San Jose. Due to a 22% unemployment rate across the country and a stringent country-wide lockdown put in place to prevent Covid19 infection, our partner facility has seen a drop of 50% of its revenue in key fundraising activities crucial to the function of the facility, which was already for many years running on a skeleton budget.
The $1500 we raise will be used to purchase critically needed medical supplies for our HIV & AIDS patients.
Hogar de la Esperanza is a nonprofit organization and facility in the neighborhood of Paso Ancho. It is in a low-income, high-crime neighborhood in the capitol of Costa Rica, San Jose. Due to a 22% unemployment rate across the country and a stringent country-wide lockdown put in place to prevent Covid19 infection, our partner facility has seen a drop of 50% of its revenue in key fundraising activities crucial to the function of the facility, which was already for many years running on a skeleton budget.
The $1500 we raise will be used to purchase critically needed medical supplies for our HIV & AIDS patients.
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Through Asociacion Cuenta Conmigo:
We are raising funds specifically to purchase critical medical supplies for Alejandra*, a mother who is HIV-positive and fighting cancer. Undergoing chemotherapy in the midst of a pandemic that is particularly dangerous for those with weakened immune systems, Alejandra can not work her normal street-worker job of selling baked meat pastries to pedestrians and drivers on the streets in the small town she lives in, so she is unable to even buy food for herself, much less able to purchase the critical medical supplies she needs. Half of the $1500 that we raise will first be used to help purchase the medical supplies Alejandra* needs to help her overcome this cancer that threatens to take her life. The rest of those funds will be used to purchase critically needed medical supplies for other HIV & AIDS patients in the province.
These critical medical & self-care supplies for Alejandra include: oral saline solution; toothpaste; toothbrushes; anticavity Listerine anticavity fluoride mouthwash to help prevent cavities & infections in the mouth, a particular immune system danger to the those with HIV; ammonium lactate cream & other skin creams & ointments to help prevent skin, including the skin on her head now exposed as a result of her hair falling out, from becoming inflamed or infected; neutral, hydrating soap; daily supply of probiotics (to help recover the bacterial flora destroyed from the chemotherapy, crucial for helping maintain and increase body weight); and daily provision of liquid protein supplemental drinks (Ensure, ProteinX) to help maintain and gain weight. All of these medical supplies are items Alejandra* is likely NOT to have if we do not provide them, as she is unable to work right now, and are crucial in her fight to save her life.
We are raising funds specifically to purchase critical medical supplies for Alejandra*, a mother who is HIV-positive and fighting cancer. Undergoing chemotherapy in the midst of a pandemic that is particularly dangerous for those with weakened immune systems, Alejandra can not work her normal street-worker job of selling baked meat pastries to pedestrians and drivers on the streets in the small town she lives in, so she is unable to even buy food for herself, much less able to purchase the critical medical supplies she needs. Half of the $1500 that we raise will first be used to help purchase the medical supplies Alejandra* needs to help her overcome this cancer that threatens to take her life. The rest of those funds will be used to purchase critically needed medical supplies for other HIV & AIDS patients in the province.
These critical medical & self-care supplies for Alejandra include: oral saline solution; toothpaste; toothbrushes; anticavity Listerine anticavity fluoride mouthwash to help prevent cavities & infections in the mouth, a particular immune system danger to the those with HIV; ammonium lactate cream & other skin creams & ointments to help prevent skin, including the skin on her head now exposed as a result of her hair falling out, from becoming inflamed or infected; neutral, hydrating soap; daily supply of probiotics (to help recover the bacterial flora destroyed from the chemotherapy, crucial for helping maintain and increase body weight); and daily provision of liquid protein supplemental drinks (Ensure, ProteinX) to help maintain and gain weight. All of these medical supplies are items Alejandra* is likely NOT to have if we do not provide them, as she is unable to work right now, and are crucial in her fight to save her life.
Anne with nurse Mario, an experienced nurse with formal training from the University of Costa Rica who works very closely with HIV & AIDS patients through Organizacion Cuenta Conmigo as well as the HIV/AIDS facility Hogar de la Esperanza
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Through Hogar de la Esperanza,
We will provide critical medical supplies so that the AIDS facility can use the extremely limited funds they do have for other urgent needs.
Along with gloves, medical briefs, and basic medicines such as acetaminophen and aspirin, we will purchase the nurses’ office a needed blood glucose monitor kit with a good stock of glucose testing strips; a digital thermometer,; a blood pressure cuff; anti-fungal cream; injectable vials of diclofenac; cotton for woundcare & other nursing uses; mircopore tape for bandaging wounds; probiotics for patients who need them; antibacterial liquid soap; and needed diabetic-designated liquid protein/carbohydrate supplemental drinks (Enterex Diabetic, to help maintain and gain weight,) among other medical supplies.
We will provide critical medical supplies so that the AIDS facility can use the extremely limited funds they do have for other urgent needs.
Along with gloves, medical briefs, and basic medicines such as acetaminophen and aspirin, we will purchase the nurses’ office a needed blood glucose monitor kit with a good stock of glucose testing strips; a digital thermometer,; a blood pressure cuff; anti-fungal cream; injectable vials of diclofenac; cotton for woundcare & other nursing uses; mircopore tape for bandaging wounds; probiotics for patients who need them; antibacterial liquid soap; and needed diabetic-designated liquid protein/carbohydrate supplemental drinks (Enterex Diabetic, to help maintain and gain weight,) among other medical supplies.
With one of our patients at the HIV/AIDS facility Hogar de la Esperanza in San Jose, Cosa Rica, December 2019. Lives are affected through relationship by consistent, small acts of service, showing up repeatedly over time, & giving however we can to best meet real needs as expressed by those we partner with in love.
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Will you help us raise the $1500 by January 31st to purchase these critical medical supplies for our HIV/AIDS patients?
Your gift goes directly to purchase these critical medical supplies. You can give knowing that your gift will translate directly into medical supplies in the hands of nurses and HIV/AIDS patients who urgently need them.
Thank you SO much for your generosity and for your love for the HIV&AIDS patient so together, we can be the hands & feet of Jesus Christ!!
Your gift goes directly to purchase these critical medical supplies. You can give knowing that your gift will translate directly into medical supplies in the hands of nurses and HIV/AIDS patients who urgently need them.
Thank you SO much for your generosity and for your love for the HIV&AIDS patient so together, we can be the hands & feet of Jesus Christ!!
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Anne Stavrica, at the Costa Rican facility Hogar de la Esperanza, with administrator Daniel & one of the nurses Wendy
Together, Loving AIDS Patients, Loving Jesus.
“For the love of Christ compels us….” – 2nd Corinthians 5:14
“For the love of Christ compels us….” – 2nd Corinthians 5:14
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Bio - Anne Stavrica
Premed Student, Nursing Assistant, Ministry Worker
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Ingrid Anne Stavrica is a graduate of Multnomah University (formerly Multnomah Bible College) with a double major in Bible & Theology and Women’s Ministries and has also done graduate level work in Counseling and Theology at Western Seminary. After pursuing nursing for two years, she felt called to return to her childhoold desire of becoming a medical doctor and is currently a premedical student and a Certified Nursing Assistant.
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