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Stanbridge College held a Favorite Charity Contest in September to choose a non-profit organization for the winter quarter’s service learning project. Students nominated local organizations & the winner was Project Hope, nominated by nursing student Summer Slim. Project Hope is a non-profit school in Orange, CA that provides the basic needs of life and learning […]
Xu Yuehua cares for children at the Xiangtan Social Welfare Institute in central China’s Hunan Province. The 55-year-old Xu, lost her legs in an accident three decades ago. She devotes herself to raising the children in the social welfare institute that sheltered her. In the past 37 years, Xu has raised over 130 children, who […]
If it were up to Dan Bell, no one in this Arkansas resort town in the Ozark Mountains would ever worry about how to pay for health care again. And these days, far fewer need to, thanks to the twice-monthly clinic he and wife Suzie, 57, started in a church gym in November 2005. Staffed […]
Jenny McCarthy, an advocate for parents with Autistic children, along with Oprah, share the story of a true Mother Warrior who says, “that things are as they are, and you have to move forward. Life goes on.” After going through a painful divorce, Monica met Tony when she least expected it. Monica already had a […]
Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. But a quick family visit home before heading to Europe changed everything. “I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food,” Krishnan said. “It really hurt me so much. I […]
Stanbridge College is proud to announce Project Hope as its September/October Service Project beneficiary after holding a Favorite Charity Contest on Facebook.
Stanbridge nursing students participated in Orange County’s Free Clinics in the spring and fall of 2010. At the event, volunteers were able to bring their classroom skills to the public by administering free flu shots. Students learned how to work with patients, prepare and administer flu shots and take care of patient administration forms.
In some Third World countries poverty-stricken amputees known as “crawlers” slowly transport themselves by crawling on the ground each day. Their quality of life is literally reduced to what they can do on partial limbs to get from place to place. Compassionate students and staff at Stanbridge College worked with Free Wheelchair Mission to donate […]