These countries benefited from FOW-USA supplies during February and March 2019: For the month of February Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Kosovo, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia (2 shipments), Nepal (2 shipments), Pakistan, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. In March we…
Thank you to the South Central Region of the WOCN Society for your generous donation and your shipment sponsorship to Nepal Ostomy Association. A complete pallet was sent in your honor! South Central Region of the WOCN Society
Thank you to the WOCN St Louis Affiliate for your generous contribution resulting in the sponsorship of supplies to Bolivia. A complete pallet was sent in your honor! WOCN St. Louis Affiliate
Thank you to the Northwest Region of the WOCN Society for your generous donation and your shipment sponsorship to Paraguay ASOSDELPA. A complete pallet was sent in your honor! Northwest Region of the WOCN Society
These countries benefited from FOW-USA supplies during December 2018 and January 2019: For the month of December we shipped to Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia (2) Jamaica, Kenya (2), Libya (2) Nepal, Nigeria, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. In January we shipped…
Fall Newsletter 2018
Thank you to the following for your generous donation and your shipment sponsorship. Complete pallets were sent in your honor! Iowa Affiliate of the Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society
NEW POSTER now available. We now have posters for your Support Group meetings and WOCN clinics. Check them out and order from our Resource drop down.
Thank you to the following for your generous donation and your shipment sponsorship. Complete pallets were sent in your honor!
The Mideast Region of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society has become the first sponsor of a pallet of ostomy supplies, to Nepal Stoma Care. We thank you for sponsoring this shipment.
The Iowa WOCN Affiliate sponsors a free ostomy education day for ostomates and their support families every year. This event is held in different parts of the state to offer benefit to the many ostomates statewide. This year marked the 10th…
2017 Service Award This year’s recipient, Ann Favreau, is more than worthy of this honor and was nominated with a resounding number of entries. Her countless hours of time and dedication to our mission is certainly why. Her list of…
Memories of Fred Moore, 1918-2016 by William Etnyre, PhD, LICSW As we mourn the passing of a former FOW-USA Board Member, we thank the author who was able to shed some light on Fred’s contributions. The following is an essay written…
From Carolyn Brown, Cameroon: Jacques is a young school teacher who was diagnosed with bladder cancer. My husband did an ileal conduit on him, so he now has a urostomy. They seem to have gotten all the cancer and he…
There is a new way to benefit Friends of Ostomates Worldwide-USA. Amazon will now donate 1/2 of 1% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases when you shop at AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com). When you go to this link for the…
Supplies Save Lives — Your Donations Matter! [From the mother of Solomon, age 4 years, in Uganda] “I received a big box of donated supplies from Friends of Ostomates. My son started school where he spends almost the entire day….
At the end of July 2013, we went to a wedding in St Louis. Coming back, during the screening process, the TSA staff asked me to undergo a personal screening in a private room. During that process, they explained that…