International Response Team runs many programs to help around the world. Here is a look at the work the organization\u2019s programs completed last year:<\/p>\n
Community and family health<\/strong><\/p>\n Feeding San Diego\u2019s Kids- San Diego \u2013 <\/strong>8,000 meals were provided and weekend backpacks filled with food for needy and homeless schoolchildren (and their families) at four elementary schools.<\/p>\n New Homes, New Beginnings – Tijuana, Mexico \u2013<\/strong> Built seven homes and one school room for impoverished families in an informal settlement Fuentes del Valle.<\/p>\n Kids Kingdom \u2013 Ensenada, Mexico<\/strong> \u2013 Provided monthly education and more than 42,000 meals for abandoned and neglected children in Baja.<\/p>\n Better Vision Brighter Future – Ensenada, M\u00e9xico \u2013<\/strong> Screened 109 people and distributed 98 pairs of eyeglasses to the poor.<\/p>\n Better Vision, Brighter Future – Guatemala \u2013<\/strong> Screened 2,608 people and distributed 2,528 eyeglasses to the poor in four locations.<\/p>\n Disaster response<\/strong><\/p>\n Hurricane Maria (Puerto Rico)<\/strong> \u2013 Sent three 40-foot containers of drinking water, two 20-foot containers of canned food, one 40-foot container of canned meats, more than 2,000 heavy-duty tarps, 5,000 cans of baby formula, and 2,100 disaster health kits to Hurricane Maria victims.<\/p>\n Hurricane Irma (Florida)<\/strong> \u2013 Sent 1,000 disaster health kits, nearly 22,000 gallons of bleach, and a truckload of food to Hurricane Irma victims across the state.<\/p>\n Hurricane Harvey (Texas) \u2013<\/strong> Sent 625 disaster health kits, more than 9,000 ready-to-eat meals, nearly 22,000 gallons of bleach, and 10 truckloads of drywall for hurricane victims. In 2018, we will start deploying volunteers to repair damaged homes.<\/p>\n Louisiana Flood 2016<\/strong> \u2013 Repaired 71 homes for victims of the 2016 Louisiana Flood who could not recover on their own.<\/p>\n Gaza \u2013<\/strong> Rushed more than $6 million in emergency medicines to alleviate the critical shortage.<\/p>\n Health services<\/strong><\/p>\n Life-transforming Surgeries \u2013 Honduras<\/strong> \u2013 Surgical team performed 45 surgeries in a rural community without access to health care.<\/p>\n Medicines for Children – Honduras \u2013<\/strong> Provided more than $9.6 million in urgently needed medicines to hospitals and clinics that serve the poor.<\/p>\n Medicines for Children \u2013 Niger \u2013<\/strong> Provided hospitals and health clinics in Niger with more than $8.3 million in urgently needed medicines.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Response Team runs many programs to help around the world. Here is a look at the work the organization\u2019s programs completed last year:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":230123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11558","_seopress_titles_title":"Program successes","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11558,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-times-courier","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}