Solidarity
Bridge
The Chicago Catholic Medical,
Enterprise, and Education Missions
Mailing
Address:
1577 Florence Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
Warehouse:
1711 Darrow Ave, #3
Evanston, Illinois 60201
Phone: (847) 328-7748
Fax: (847) 328-6860
solidbridge@gmail.com
Board
of Directors
James
Hallagan, Secretary
Juan L. Hinojosa, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Bishop Francis Kane
Theresa Lee, M.D.
Bruce Leech, Chair
Dan
Lum,
M.D., Treasurer
Jan Mezyk, M.D.
Richard Moser, M.D.
Rev. Robert Oldershaw
Anton Steinhart
Enrique Via-Reque,
M.D.
Daniel Yousif, M.D.
†
Rev. Robert McLaughlin
† Deacon Jeff Shaw,
R.N.
United
States Staff
Juan L. Hinojosa, Ph.D., Executive Director
Ann Rhomberg, LCSW
Associate Director
Christin Hinojosa, M.A.
Development Director
Program Director
Kristine Delacourte
Solidarity Clothing Coordinator
Sarah Hinojosa, M.T.S.
Lenten and Advent Cause Director
Karen O'Leary
Administrative Assistant
Enrique Via-Reque, M.D.
Medical Director
Bolivia Staff
Carlos Brockmann
Country Coordinator
Maria
Eugenia Rojas
Country Coordinator
Jose Choque
Cooperatives Coordinator
Vision Program Coordinator
Miguel Esteban
Pacemaker Inventory
Adminda Gomez
Office Manager/
Accountant
Maria Ines Uriona
Social Worker
Marina Romero
Santa Cruz Coordinator
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The
Education Mission
Frank
Lester, deaf missioner, signs about bilingual/bicultural
deaf education with Bolivian colleagues - Education Mission 2004
Summer Education Mission
The
Education Mission is a partnership in Cochabamba, Bolivia with teachers
and student teachers preparing to teach English to the poor. Our
principal institutional partner is a large public institution for
higher learning called Universidad San Simon. Our missioners provide
seminars, team teach and sharpen their Spanish skills while delving
into Latin American culture. The Bolivian teachers have an opportunity
to learn more English and connect with counterparts from the U.S.
Sharing includes topics of a pedagogical and curricular nature.
This mission occurs in the summer months.
Our
goals on mission are to:
- Improve
the English skills of Bolivian counterparts who teach English
in schools for the poor
- Depending
on the expertise of our missioners, provide workshops on educational
topics to our Bolivian counterparts
- Deepen
missioners' knowledge and understanding of Latin American culture
- Learn
how another culture’s educational vision and practice
is realized in Bolivian schools
- Create
bonds of solidarity with Bolivian educational counterparts and
experience community with team members
- Grow through
cultural, educational, and spiritual exchange
- And much
more…
If
You are Interested in Joining Us…
Medical Education
In
addition to the teaching happening in the interactions with hospital
personnel in the operating room on medical missions, we incorporate
workshops and seminars for our Bolivian colleagues on the latest
medical techniques and practices. For example, on the spring 2005
medical mission one of our anesthesiologists, Dr. George Lederhaas,
provided a series of lectures on pediatric anesthesia and pain management
to the Bolivian Anesthesiology Association. His lectures were attended
by over 45 physicians. Dr. Robert Klobucnik, our emergency room
physician, engaged the Hospital Cuschieri staff in a process of
assessing and developing their emergency room procedures and equipment. return
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