SewHope in the News
SewHope and Kids Coalition Against Hunger are sending 250,000 meals
to Guatemala in late 2024.
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Students at Mercy College in Toledo, Ohio contributed 12,000 meals to the shipment during their Heritage Week packing event.
"Raising his hands in a quick and informal blessing, Michael Burwell, executive director for Kids Coalition Against Hunger, consecrated the volunteer’s mission before they began packing.“These are my hands,” he said, with everyone repeating his words and gestures. “And today I will use them to serve.” With a few more words of encouragement, Mr. Burwell energized the groups of meal packers, who took turns spooning parts of the meal portions into funneled bags." |
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Press Releases and News Items
A Lifesaving Gift in Rural GuatemalaHelp transform cervical cancer from a leading killer of women in Guatemala to a well-managed disease. When Rhonda Blue first heard about this opportunity, she jumped at the chance.
As part of her work at Hologic, Blue supports laboratories and healthcare providers in the U.S. Gulf Coast region to emphasize preventive care against cervical cancer through co-testing (use of the Pap test and the HPV test together). She’s proud that routine screening is a key reason the disease has gone from being the top killer of women in the U.S. to one of the most preventable cancers in the nation... (READ MORE) |
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By Maya May on October 23, 2022
on WTOL 11 |
SYLVANIA, Ohio — More than 200 runners and walkers laced up their shoes and enjoyed the warmth for the annual Falling Leaves 8 miler and 5K at Secor Metropark on Sunday.
The race is put on by the Toledo Road Runner Club with all money raised going to help Guatemalan communities in need. The Road Runners Club partnered with Second Sole and local non-profit SewHope. The organizers are making sure the money goes to a good place... (READ MORE) |
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CERVICAL CANCER is not often an issue among American women because of preventive medicine, but women in other parts of the world are not as fortunate. Dr. Anne Ruch of Ottawa Hills learned that firsthand in her initial trips to Guatemala.
Those trips laid the groundwork for an involvement in that Central American country by the nonprofit she founded, SewHope, which has evolved far beyond its original goal of preventing cervical cancer. Today, the people in that remote area are working toward having access to sustainable food production, clean water, education, health care—and the possibility of a healthy life and a promising future... (READ MORE) |
By Dennis Bova on Monday, March 28, 2022
in Healthy Living News |
By Vincent Lucarelli / The Blade- Mar 08, 2022
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After she began taking church trips to Guatemala in 1998, Anne Ruch began to notice some things in the country that needed to be changed.
“You get down there and see the poverty, and it’s just overwhelming,” Dr. Ruch, a practicing OB-GYN at Compassion Health in South Toledo, said on Monday. “I figured I’m a doctor so I can do these short-term medical mission trips.” Eventually, Dr. Ruch realized her short-term trips were not having the long-term desired effect she wanted, which led her and her husband in 2007 to create SewHope, a nonprofit established with the goal of alleviating poverty through healthcare and education in the Central American nation. The establishment of a school in Guatemala was always the zenith of SewHope’s mission... (READ MORE) |
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Nearly 300 people donated their time to package meals for families who are on the brink of starvation.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Each day, more people around the globe are faced with food insecurity. In Toledo, one in five children does not know where their next meal will come from.
But, thousands of families will be able to get another meal, thanks to some local volunteers and a community food build held at St. John's Jesuit High School in south Toledo. The food packing event was held by SewHope, in partnership with Kids Coalition Against Hunger... (READ MORE) |
By Caylee Kirby, November 13, 2021
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