International Locations
Canada
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Project Sunshine Canada serves children at five facilities in Toronto,
including SickKids, Mt. Sinai Hospital, North York General Hospital, Bloorview Rehab and the Robert
Schad Naturopathic Clinic. Programs include arts & crafts, Parent Wellness, Book Buddies and
special events. Plans for 2010 include initiating programs in additional facilities.
For more information on Project Sunshine Canada, please contact
canadainfo@projectsunshine.org.
China
Launched in 2008, Project Sunshine China provides weekly programming to two medical facilities and more than 100 children in Beijing. One facility, Peking University´s Sixth Hospital, serves children facing mental health challenges. The other facility, the pediatric department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (Xie He Hospital) one of the most renowned pediatric facilities in China, serves children living with a variety of medical challenges.
The volunteers of Project Sunshine China are students from China Women´s University´s social work department and corporate employees from Beijing. The children Project Sunshine serve range in age from newborns to twenty–one year–olds, come from all socio–economic classes, and arrive at the facilities in Beijing from wide–ranging geographic locations and diverse family situation
For more information on Project Sunshine China please contact jing@projectsunshine.org.
Israel
Since 2008, 70 volunteers with Project Sunshine Israel have provided weekly programming at Schneider Children´s Medical Center in Petach Tikvah and monthly events at Meir Hospital in K´far Saba to over 670 children and 115 family members.
"The goal of the project is to give the hospitalized children the opportunity to play and be children, and forget if only for a few hours, about their daily hospital routine. I can say it felt amazing! I felt huge satisfaction being there, for a few hours, putting my daily routine aside and giving from myself."
– Yuval Passov, Chapter Leader & Board Member
For more information on Project Sunshine Israel, please contact lihi@projectsunshine.org.
Kenya
In January 2006, Project Sunshine Kenya was created as a pilot program to address the international issues of access to medical care, stigmas associated with HIV/AIDS and social support. In conjunction with New York University´s Center for AIDS Research, Project Sunshine Kenya now serves over 1,000 children and families living with HIV/AIDS in Mombasa, Kenya.
Project Sunshine´s volunteers come from Bomu Medical Center´s Post–Test Club, a group of community leaders who have tested positive for HIV/AIDS and publicly expose their status as a way of raising awareness of practicing safe behavior and getting tested for HIV. The volunteers enable Project Sunshine to provide programs for Kenyans delivered by Kenyans and are the heart of this volunteer effort.
According to a nurse at Bomu Medical Center, "Project Sunshine´s programs are an essential part of the HIV treatment and therapy at Bomu. Families turn to Project Sunshine just as they turn to medical treatment – they can´t have one without the other."
For more information on Project Sunshine Kenya, please contact naomi@projectsunshine.org
