What is nice and cozy to you?
In Puerto Lopez Ecuador, there’s a young Venezuelan man named Renny that everybody likes.
Renny left his home country over 3 years ago, and has been getting to know the Ecuadorian locals by working any job he can find.
For the past 9 months, he and his partner have been living in the tropical desert under a plastic tarp. Life is not easy for many refugees, even when you're a hard working go-getter and well respected.
Tippy Taps are the best!
In many parts of the world there is no running water. But of course washing your hands with soap for 20 seconds before handling food and after using the bathroom is important everywhere.
The simple but effective Tippy Tap uses very little water and can easily be put up near any kitchen or bathroom. A repurposed jerry can, a soda bottle, or a gourd with a couple of holes and a bar of soap with some string can literally save lives.
CPR for all!
From the equator in South America to the equator in Africa, our Dr. Suzanne has taught life saving resuscitation and Automatic External Defibrillator classes that really gets the heart pumping.
From firemen and the Red Cross, to nurses in refugee camps and the general public, and this week local lifeguards were shocked to learn about the magic of the AED.
Vodka is the best!
A true and fearless team member of ours at A Ripple.
She’s named Vodka because she’s Russian and strong.
This 4x4 jeep has guided us into natural disasters before other help could arrive.
Places and times when military and police declared no passage, over broken bridges and under flooded passes she would go, fearlessly into a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and across borders to help in disasters.
10 good things from 2020.
With a virus dominating the world and the news, it’s difficult to remember the good.
In no particular order…
1. Our Mother Earth took a big breath of fresh air! Carbon dioxide emissions drastically declined, yes, in part to the quarantine, but also because the cost of renewable energy shrank dramatically. Inhale the future, exhale the past.
2. Drive-in movies made a comeback.
3. Healing! In March, it was made public that a man in England
was cured of HIV.
"Leader"
There’s many reasons why over 4 million Venezuelans have fled their home country, the largest exodus the Americas has ever seen.
One major reason is because of this pictured pillock saltimbanco asshat named Nicolas Maduro.
Even though he’s an incompetent and cruel “leader” of a country, he does hold a couple of number 1 world rankings.
Venezuela has THE HIGHEST murder rate in the world.
Venezuela has the worlds WORST economy.
Hi Friends, we hope you’re well.
We’re high up in the Andes and would love your help in purchasing an ultrasound machine.
Can you help? There’s a thousand reasons why you should.
Actually, there’s over 4,000,000 reasons, and counting.
That’s the number of Venezuelans that have been forced to leave their home country, the largest exodus the Americas has ever seen.
Under the rule of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelans have faced horrible human rights abuses, including executions, detentions, excessive use of force.
Did you know the Navajo helped the USA win World War 2?The famous Navajo code talkers were an important part of the US army who sent secret messages in their native language across oceans to confuse the approaching Japanese.Using their…
Yá'át'ééh, or hello. Would you like to give a neglected Navajo family life?
After all, water IS life.
Did you know that there’s a group of approximately 50,000 people that don’t have electricity, running water, or an in home toilet?No, these people are not in central Africa, or Asia, but in the richest country in the world, the United States of America.
The Navajo live on the USA’s largest Native American reservation, spread across 17 million acres of desert in the states of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. It’s estimated that 30-40% of these Native Americans live without basic necessities like water, today, in the year 2020.
With your assistance, we can help them, so let's help.
Hello friends, we hope all is well with you and yours.
What a unique time to be alive.
Just like you, it has been an interesting few months for us here at A Ripple.
To you, and to our 7.5 billion other friends around the world, we miss you.
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” Hippocrates
As you might know, A Ripple is based in a small town on the coast of Ecuador, South America.
Two months ago, as Ecuador’s borders were closing, A Ripple’s president, Dr. Suzanne, boarded one of the last commercial flights to the USA. Since then, she has been working hard in the Emergency Room of a Florida hospital dealing with everything under the sun, including Covid-19. Florida, being the retirement state for many elderly, has been hit hard with this virus and at the time of this writing, has seen over 42,000 cases of Covid.
