OUR PROJECTS
Our projects begin with listening and assessing, not imposing. We serve in multiple areas of asset-based community development including health, education, agriculture, and appropriate technology. Our medical projects are focused on educating local professional doctors, therapists, nurses, and dentists to grow in knowledge and improve the outcomes for their patients.
FEATURED PROJECT-Rural Health Project
Since 2019, STLI has been re-engaging with the main medical education institutions of Kyrgyzstan to assist them in their efforts to train family medicine residents in smaller towns and to expand the role of rural family practice nurses. The goal is to help our local partners equip a new generation of interdisciplinary rural health teams from the rural areas, who complete their training in those areas and then remain there to teach others.
FEATURED PROJECT-FamilyWell
The FamilyWell Project is a medical clinic in the Khanke IDP (Internally Displaced Peoples) camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). In 2014, ISIS launched a genocide against the Yezidi people. Since then, many of the Yezidis have been living in refugee camps in the KRI. STLI’s physicians, nurses, and mental health professionals aim to improve the holistic (body, mind, and soul) health of these individuals and families. They do this by providing quality primary care, including women's health, prenatal care, counseling, community health, wellness and nutrition classes, and preventative care education.
FEATURED PROJECT-Work with disabled children at Ak Suu Therapy Center
Dr. Nick Woolfield, an STLI Associate, works with local doctors, nurses, and therapists to deliver the newest treatments and therapies at Ak Suu Center, nestled in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Every qualifying family is sponsored by the government to attend for a few weeks every year.
FEATURED PROJECT-Work with disabled children at Ak Suu Therapy Center
Dr. Nick Woolfield, an STLI Associate, works with local doctors, nurses, and therapists to deliver the newest treatments and therapies at Ak Suu Center, nestled in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Every qualifying family is sponsored by the government to attend for a few weeks every year.
FEATURED PROJECT-Work with disabled children at Ak Suu Therapy Center
Dr. Nick Woolfield, an STLI Associate, works with local doctors, nurses, and therapists to deliver the newest treatments and therapies at Ak Suu Center, nestled in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Every qualifying family is sponsored by the government to attend for a few weeks every year.
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FEATURED PROJECT-Babywell
Babywell is an STLI project in an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where former STLI associate, Dr. Ruth, worked in a medical clinic. Dr. Ruth heard recurring stories of mothers with young babies in the refugee camp, supplementing with formula because they believe their milk is of poor quality due to life stress. (Who isn’t stressed living in a refugee camp?) From there it becomes predictable — declining milk supply, abandonment of breastfeeding, no money for additional formula, and threatened infant health. In 2018, a lactation consultant came out to help for two weeks, and from that visit our breastfeeding project was born. Serving our camp population of approximately 12,000, the “Babywell Project” focuses on identifying lactation-risk pregnant women and new mothers, providing classes and ongoing support to keep women exclusively breastfeeding until at least an infant age of 6 months. Five local women have been trained to teach, address specific breastfeeding problems, and monitor infant nutritional health. They work at the medical clinic and also regularly visit women in their tent homes in the camp, making a world of difference one baby at a time.