News and updates on Afya's work delivering lifesaving supplies and equipment around the world.
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Over the Memorial Day weekend AFYA Foundation, a Yonkers-based global healthcare charity, received a large donation of durable medical equipment from Cape Cod.
Danielle launches her new book, Wild Hope Now, and brings crowds at recent speaking engagements.
A Jewish humanitarian organization has completed an airlift of medical materials to enclaves of Ethiopian Jews as the ongoing Israeli conflict with Hamas has complicated established aid in the region.
Heather (Afya’s Chief of Programs) and I recently did what we do well together-travel to a nation we aim to support, authentically ask people in many different health care settings what they need, listen carefully and then head home to pack the supplies needed.
At Afya, we always believe that people have the capacity to make a difference and live with purpose, no matter which circumstance they find themselves in. Afya’s Occupational Therapy internship program breathes life into this belief.
Amputation surgical kits. Chemical protection respirators. These are some of the items that doctors in Ukraine are asking us for. These, and many, many more. Items you would never want to see on a medical supply request list are coming in.
Working closely with the Westchester Commissioner’s team over the past 18 months, Afya has been leading weekly virtual satellite sorting sessions with inmates in the Young Offender jail.
The Afya Foundation and our partners deliver supplies to refugee welcoming center in New Jersey October 28, 2021 Earlier this month, the Afya Foundation traveled with representatives from Upwardly Global, the Westchester Jewish Coalition for Immigration (WJCI), Shames JCC, JCC of Mid-Westchester and the UJA-Federation of NY to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The […]
