By Jessica Holbrook
Canton Repository business writer
CANTON -- A partnership between nurses in Canton and Honduras could save lives in Central America.
The Aultman College of Nursing is teaming with Orrville-based nonprofit Central American Medical Outreach to improve health care in Honduras.
Earlier this summer, four nurses from Hospital de Occidente, the public hospital in Santa Rosa de Copán where CAMO operates, spent four weeks training at Aultman.
It was the start of a multiphase project to standardize nursing care in Honduras, a country where medical professionals aren’t measured by uniform standards, licensing is often based on the honor system and hospitals don’t adhere to protocol.
Read more: http://www.cantonrep.com/article/20140830/News/140839956#ixzz3CMwx33GU

Thank you to West Holmes High School, and school athletic director LeeAnn Race, who Wednesday gave CAMO boxes and boxes of retired sports uniforms. Not wanting to add to the landfill, LeeAnn’s friend Georgia Jaeb suggested LeeAnn contact CAMO to see if we could use them.
Boy can we.
CAMO’s  community gym serves 300 people a day. It provides a safe place for kids to play sports. CAMO is working to build more programming at the gym. The goal of CAMO’s Sports Activities and Public Schools project is to raise $12,000 to hire a Sports Assistant who will bring in coaches and enroll 400 kids for volleyball, basketball, ping pong and chess. These uniforms are a great addition to this fledgling program! Your donations will help this program move forward. Click above, or call our office at 330-683-5956 for more information or to make a donation by phone.
Thanks again LeeAnn, and thanks to all who help CAMO make life better in Honduras. 

Congrats CAMO quilt raffle winners

Congrats to Cheryl Gordon, first place winner in CAMO’s quilt raffle.
CAMO founder and executive director Kathy Tschiegg asked a young fair-goer to draw the winning tickets Thursday at 9 p.m.
Jocelyn Davis won the Runions’ Furniture $100 gift card. Third place winner was longtime CAMO supporter Lavina McConkle, who for years has sold Watkins products in the booth across from CAMO’s at the fair.
Congratulations to all the raffle winners, and thank you to all the people who entered our drawing, who bought coffee and who signed up for CAMO’s newsletter or to volunteer with CAMO. Thanks also to all the volunteers who spent time in the CAMO booth talking with visitors and sharing information about CAMO – who we are and what we do.
For more information on CAMO’s upcoming events or to learn about volunteer opportunities with CAMO, please call our office at 330-683-5956 or visit our website at www.CAMO.org.

CAMO has the key to your clutter

Submitted by CAMO on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 10:41am

Is there anything better than a tidy home free of clutter and unwanted “stuff?” CAMO has the key to that.

For the first time ever, we’re participating in Orrville’s Community-Wide yard sale. You can bring your unwanted stuff to CAMO and we will sort and sell it for you. OR you can set up a table in our parking lot Oct. 4.

We’re inviting everyone to help us in this event to raise money and awareness of CAMO. Please call our office with any questions – we’re happy to help you help the truly needy in Honduras.

CAMO begins new feature in newsletter

Submitted by CAMO on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 8:38am

New to the newsletter is “Where are they now?” It’s a feature that shows the journey of a Honduran patient helped by CAMO – how they came to CAMO , how CAMO helped and the long-term impact of CAMO’s help on the patient’s life.  

The first featured patient is Porfillio, CAMO’s first prosthetics patient who came to CAMO after suffering an electrical accident that left him with severe burns on his face and with no lower limbs.

If you’re not getting CAMO’s newsletter and would like to receive it, please call our office at 330-683-5956. You can get our newsletter by email if you provide your email address.  

CAMO is having fun at the fair

Submitted by CAMO on Mon, 09/08/2014 - 1:49pm

Thank you to everyone who has pitched in to help CAMO have a fun and successful week at the Wayne County Fair!

Jorge Romero, Marilyn Humrichouser, Lyle Nussbaum and Joyce Shelton were onhand Saturday. Sunday, Jocelyn Davis, Sharon Stern, Scott Zaccharias and Ron and Beth Pycraft all did time in the tent. Monday, Matt Berger and Mark Gustafson are on tap, sharing information about what CAMO is, what CAMO does and why CAMO matters.

Stop by Tuesday and meet CAMO volunteers Wava Kornhaus, Marsha Jones, Ted Crawford and Mike and Robyn McClintock. Wednesday, Pat Lorson and Paul Crowley have signed on to help. Thursday, visitors to the CAMO booth will meet Linda Pratt and Cindy Mullet.

It means so much that our volunteers are willing to give their time to share how CAMO helps others and how CAMO has helped them to make a difference for the better in the lives of the truly needy in Honduras. Thank you volunteers!

To learn more about year-‘round volunteer opportunities with CAMO, call 330-683-5956. Or stop by our booth at the Wayne County Fair!

It's Wayne County Fair time!

Submitted by CAMO on Fri, 09/05/2014 - 2:21pm

With a quilt raffle, new signage and more, CAMO could not be more excited about the Wayne County Fair Sept. 6-11.

For the first time in years CAMO will raffle a beautiful handmade, hand-stitched, full-sized  quilt.

Raffle prizes also include a $100 gift certificate from Runion’s Furniture in Orrville and a beautiful  piece of pottery from Holmes County Pottery.

Thank you to Runion’s Furniture, Holmes County Pottery owners Cary and Elaine Hulin, and Jan Chandler, who made the quilt.

Don’t forget, at the fair we also will accept unwanted cell phones, tablets, Ipods, GPS devices and PDAs. We also will have Honduran coffee for sale.

Please stop by our booth, enter our raffle, drop off your unwanted electronics and consider buying some coffee. It really is the best and your dollars could not go to a more worthy cause! Hope to see you at the fair!