ACTIVITY REPORT

ACTIVITY REPORT

The Evangelical Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry

2008

Eleny Vassão de Paula Aitken and Team of Chaplains and Hospital Visitors

Vision

A ministry that offers spiritual, emotional, and social support, based on the Word of God, to those who are sick, their caregivers, and health professionals. This work is to be carried out by volunteer but prepared Christians, thus becoming a benchmark to churches, hospital authorities and health professionals.

Mission

Glorify God through volunteer visitors and chaplains, who act from a support structure that is both organic and functional, offering comfort and consolation from the Word of God to those who are sick, their family members, and to the employees and health professionals, in the hospitals.

14 Hospitals – 4 private e 10 public

People Reached /Year: 108.234

Partnerships: Brazilian Bible Society, UCB Brazil, and Churches

Visitor and Chaplain Staffs: approximately 120

Means of Support: Volunteer People backed by their local churches; donations for special dates; literature given by SBB and UCB.

Head Chaplain: Eleny Vassão de Paula Aitken

Chaplain Assistants: 3 in each hospital

Staff of Visitors: from 30 to 40 in each hospital

Activities carried out during 2008

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Chaplaincy Team with Church Choir that give presentations on Saturdays singing while strolling along the Hospital corridors

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Donation of Hygiene Kits – Perola Byington Hospital

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Church Choir Presentation at the Perola Byington Hospital

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Bedside Visitation and the donation of Hygiene Kits

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Donation of Children’s Literature – Children’s Institute

Handcrafts with patients and attendants – GRENDACC of Jundiaí – Mother’s Day

Activities with children at the Children’s Institute of HC

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Donation of Children’s Literature – Children’s Day

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Donation of Literature –Jaragua Hospital

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Donation of Literature for Health Professionals

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Donation of Literature and Hygiene Kit – Children’s Municipal Hospital - Guarulhos

Handcrafts in the Psychiatric Ward of

The Public Servant’s Hospital of the State of São Paulo

Vision: Be the best Brazilian benchmark of a spiritual, emotional, and social support work, based on the Word of God that offers a ministry of Evangelical Chaplaincy that is highly trained.

Mission: Glorify God through the equipping of evangelical visitors and chaplains, as well as through the organization and supervision of chaplaincies in hospitals.

Hospitals: approximately 130 hospitals in Brazil, commenced through Courses, Trainings and Assistance offered by the ACEH. Abroad: Angola, Kirguistan, Australia, Argentina, Nicaragua, USA, Spain, South Africa, Paraguay, Chile, Japan, Russia, Bolivia.

People Reached/Year: approximately 600,000 (this number was taken from the report sent to the SBB – Brazilian Bible Society, by the 50 chaplaincies that receive Biblical literature)

Partnerships: with churches, evangelical organizations, and enterprises.

Visitors’ and Chaplains’ Staffs: approximately 120

Means of Support: Chaplaincy Courses; Volunteers backed by their local churches; Volunteer Consultants; Voluntary Donations given for special projects; Literature given by SBB and UCB.

President: Eleny Vassão de Paula Aitken

Coordination by the Staff of Chaplains and Orientation by the ACEH

ACEH Activities -2008

Participation in Lectures about Palliative Care

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Level I Course – Auditorium of the State’s Public Servant’s Hospital

Brief Course offered to Churches

Minutes with God Project - the State’s Public Servant’s Hospital

Devotions are given to Health Professionals at their Work Stations

The Cozy House Team

Inauguration of the Cozy House

Chaplaincy Benevolent Tea

Thanksgiving Service for Chaplaincy Ministry

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Handcrafts for Children – Mother’s Day

Vision: Practice good works, towards those who are sick and their families, by means of social work and projects that offer a profession, in three different places: hospital, home, and our Cozy House, thus promoting hope and quality of life.

Mission: Promote, through volunteers and trained employees, concrete activities that reach man as a whole in situations of social vulnerability, without distinction of race, creed, or sex, assisting them through professionalizing courses, art workshops, lectures, cultural and recreational activities, and help to caregivers.

Benefited Hospitals: the Hospital for Public Servants of the State of Sao Paulo, the Emílio Ribas’ Institute of Infectology, the Childrens’ Institute e the Institute for Treatment for Cancer in Children (these last two until October/2008).

People Reached /Year: approximately 15.450

Maintainer: Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie

= Mackenzie Presbyterian Institute

Monitor Staff: 5

Voluntaries: approximately 15

President: Gavin Levi Aitken

General Coordenator: Eleny Vassão de Paula Aitken

Cozy House Coordenator: Priscila Maruci Casaréggio

HANDS AND HEART PROJECT

– THE COZY HOUSE –

Investing in Education, humanization, and quality of life, while integrally assisting those who are sick and their official caregivers both formal and informal.

The “Hands and Heart Project” is developed in three different places: the Hospital, the person´s home, and the Cozy House.

Hospitals: They are the starting point for the work of the COZY HOUSE; there the links are established, necessities are observed, and activities are developed with the hospitalized children and their caregivers, as well as with other patients from the Infectology ward. Based on what is seen and found in the hospitals, assistance strategies are developed.

The daily art workshops are carried out with the hospitalized children and their mothers, both in the hospital beds and in a room next to their ward.

THE COZY HOUSE

This is a social and educational project, developed in THE COZY HOUSE strategically located in among 3 public hospitals.

Targeted Public: children hospitalized for a long period, children with chronic and degenerative diseases living at home, mothers of hospitalized children, people with AIDS victims in their families, individuals with special needs, people excluded from the labor market, and people in mourning.

Activities: Beauty Day – manicure and hairdressing every Monday for the mothers. Breakfast – specially for the mothers whose children are in the Intensive Care Unit; Art Workshops; The Delivery of Basic Food Parcels for people with AIDS victims in the family; Training Courses for children and adolescents with AIDS; Courses for the Generating of Income for hospitalized children´s mothers; A Place and materials for washing clothes, taking baths, and resting; Commemoration of special dates.

Results: Sick children, their mothers, and also the families where there is someone with AIDS, have been highly benefited by the Project – with many of their material necessities being met, but especially having the opportunity of getting to know the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior.

Projects and Courses for 2009:

· A toy as the object in the learning process of the sick children;

· Music as a teaching tool for the sick children;

· Utilization of recycled material in the teaching of Art;

· Orientation in Social Benefits;

· Orientation in Ethics and Human Rights;

· Making good use of Food

· Training of Caregivers to work in the Home

· Course in Bakery and Confectionery

· Basic Course in Foreign Languages

· Learning to read and write

Courses about HEALTH EDUCATION:

· The Church in Post-Tragedy Assistance

§ Training the Church in Home Care

· Counseling Course: Sexual Abuse; Depression; Anxiety; Loneliness; Losses; Mourning; Family Conflicts; Stress;

· Course about Thanatology: about Dying and Death; Palliative Care; Assistance to Terminally Ill Patients; Bio-thanatology; Course about Terminally Ill Children.

· Education in Sexual Health; Orientation about the Prevention of Early Pregnancy; Orientation about STD; Orientation about Quality of Life in AIDS’ patients;

· Prevention of the Use of Alcohol and Drugs;

· Basic and Environmental sanitation;

· First Aid

· Women´s Health

· Courses in Hospital Chaplaincy

Problems:

This year we are starting 20 new Courses in our COZY HOUSE, but we still have to organize ourselves in order to find supporters to provide for our financial needs concerning the teacher’s pay and other materials.

Words of appreciation from some of the benefited people:

“Even with my physical health clearly debilitated, my emotional health is cared for with a great deal of love, making possible a moment of relaxation and creativity. Today, although still feeling much pain and experiencing fever, there was a sense of extreme satisfaction while creating and decorating small boxes.”

– Simone-

“We use the time while hospitalized to produce something interesting, and, in doing this, we feel useful, productive and a sense of well-being; this also makes us forget our problems.” (Every week, he wants us to stay with them for a longer time.)

– Eduardo-

Numbers of the HANDS AND HEART Project:

Nr. of People Benefited Directly	14.813
Nr. of People Benefited Indirectly	4.290
Nr. of Occasions of offering Assistance	Approximately 15.450
Nr. of Employees involved in the Project	6
Coordinators	2
Administration	1
Monitors	5
Nr. of Volunteers involved in the Project	12
Duration of the Project	JAN to DEC- 2008

Activities of the Hands’ and Heart’ Project – ABCEH

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Handcrafts at the Day Hospital of the Psychiatric Ward

State’s Public Servant’s Hospital

Evaluation of the Handcraft Workshop at the Day Hospital

Handcrafts at the Hospital

Donation of Literature in Hospital in Commemoration of Children’s Day

Handcrafts at the Cozy House

Distribution of presents at Hospital – Commemoration of Children’s Day

Jaqueline – mother of patient at the Children’s Institute

Handcrafts at the Cozy House

Handcrafts for Families who have benefited from Food Baskets – the Cozy House (These families also receive visits to their homes by the Coordenator of the Project, Jenny, as well as a Chaplaincy volunteer Social Worker.)