The Mission of How Can I Help Them is to bring positive change to people’s lives in the global community of the medically and economically underserved.

Even with the healthcare reform and the poverty initiatives worldwide, new methods, new thinking, new medical advances, additional medical services, and new technologies are necessary to address global inequities in medical care, healthcare, economic and social well-being, education, disaster relief and poverty abatement.

This charitable initiative is based on the premise that “One Makes the Difference.” Whether “One” represents one person, one dollar, one hour, or one action, it is a call to you and to me. The mission and strategic goals are many.

• The goal is to inspire actions that change our world.
• The goal is to get more people involved to make a difference.
• The goal is to appeal for awareness action, and donations.
• The goal is to inspire you to ask yourself, “How can I help THEM?”
• The goal is to get you to think and then do any little thing or large.
• The goal is to convince you that “What Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, Your Mind Can Achieve.”
• The goal is to provide low-tech and high tech supplies, medicines, medical information, and medical/health equipment, services and consults to globally underserviced areas.
• The goal is to build a global medical/health networked system of telemedicine.
• The goal is to assist with the abatement of poverty, ignorance, and hopelessness.

No matter who one is there is always something that one can do to help that fits his or her time, finances, or lifestyle.

This site combines How Can I Help THEM, and Telemedical Health HDHP to ACTUALLY begin to help and positively change some lives in the Global Community.

Many dedicated doctors and medical practitioners working with field techniques and little or no supplies and lack advanced medications, critical medical information, up-to-date specialist consults, or adequate technology. By Western standards and even their own standards they are underpaid and over-burdened. Typical monthly pay is approximately $300 per month for a doctor in Eastern European areas such as Ukraine. If you are tempted to think that it is relatively a lot of money because of cost differences, you are wrong. Living costs in such areas are increasing for basics such as food, clothing, and housing, and other necessities. Most people in these areas dare not think of luxuries or even adequate transportation such as their own car to travel to and from multiple jobs, their own computer and connection, up-to-date medicines, or adequate medical care. Many are prohibited from geting a visa to visit Western countries for fear that too many of them will escape their dire circimstances and never return.

The doctors and other such public servants are proud people and represent a proud culture. Over seventy years of repression has taught them to be silent, afraid, or passive to their suffering, as such, we do not hear or read about them as we do about the needs in the continent of Africa and other developing countries.

Yet, in many areas in Eastern Europe, take for example Pridnestovie, also known as Transnistria, Trans-Dniester, and Transdniestria, most of the population is below the poverty line. Pridnestovie, a disputed area of Moldova, together with Moldova is the poorest area in Europe and is poorer than most of Sub-Saharan Africa, which is widely known as the poorest region in the world

Moldova together with Pridnestovie is slightly larger than Maryland. The population estimate is 4,320,748.
Infant mortality rate:
Total: 13.13 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 14.57 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 11.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
Total population: 70.8 years
Male: 67.1 years
Female: 74.71 years (2009 est.)

Ethnicity:
Moldovan/Romanian 78.2%, Ukrainian 8.4%, Russian 5.8%, Gagauz 4.4%, Bulgarian 1.9%, other 1.3% (2004 census)

A more inclusive global approach is needed. Medical care, healthcare, economic and social well-being, education, disaster relief and poverty abatement are the major areas of this initiative that with your help will develop over time.

Albert has an ambitious plan for a global system that has NEVER before existed in the world.

“I will accomplish this, even if no one else helps financially -- even if it takes my lifetime to build -- but I ask you to join in the effort” Albert V. Sheppard

Telemedicine is the most cost-effective and efficient system to provide health care; and it offers the promise of helping to democratize and equalize the availability and the best possible healthcare to people worldwide. Telemedicine is today enthusiastically embraced with high expectations in both public and private sectors. It is seen as a new system that provides effective and flexible solution to intransigent health care problems as well as financially and logistically challenged health care delivery in the United States and other parts of the world. The excitement is generated by the enormous expansion of Information Technology into everyday life, communication, education, business, industry, commerce, entertainment, and health.

Healthcare is yet a small part of this Information Age that is referred to by some as the second Industrial Revolution. As with any revolution, many old ways are dying off and new ones are emerging. Information technology is revolutionizing the way the medical community interacts with each other and with patients though the use of networking and data communications. The value of a high-speed data communication network is that it brings people together in a way never before possible.

Telemedical consults can take place in any convenient location, including the home, clinics, doctors' offices, counseling centers, schools, community centers, senior centers, nursing homes/long-term care facilities, and support groups such as veteran's groups & services, women's/children's/men's support groups, church groups, and victim's centers. Services can include multidisciplinary conferences for challenging diagnoses, in-depth therapy, medication management, and regular follow-up care.

Other uses of telemedicine include transmitting and receiving data in a healthcare environment with compliance with standards/specifications and protocol for formatting the data in/from: robotic surgery on-site and over distance, differentiation and customization for healthcare specialties, tele-conferencing, telemedical devices, medical imaging data processing, medical imaging storage and archiving, off-site viewing, medical monitoring and data reporting, tele-diagnosis, medical imaging communication, insurance/ claims processing, and other healthcare related transactions.

One can also make a difference before and after floods, mud slides, tsunamis, fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruption with ash and lava flows, poisonous gases, radiation, meteorites, avalanches, hurricanes, tornadoes, dust storms, sand storms, drought, landslides, plague, living on a violent planet, air-born, insect and animal born viruses and deadly microorganisms Too many people feel helpless to do anything and so they do NOTHING. In spite of the efforts of hundreds of other charities and assistance organizations and volunteers, millions of people chose non-action and non-participation. The odds of a disaster of one type or another happening to or near each of us, our family and our close friends in our lifetime are likely ONE HUNDRED PERCENT certain. It can happen when you are at home, at work, in school, shopping, on the road, traveling, vacationing, visiting, on the way home, or hiding in a bunker. Nevertheless, that is NOT the primary reason that you should help. You are part of the human race. We ALL are living on this violent planet. You are part of the world family. There is always SOMETHING that YOU can do small or large. When you are injured, do not the cells of your body rise to the occasion, take action to heal your wounds and stop the pain, stop the bleeding, and stop the suffering? The GREATEST essence and purpose of life is to sustain itself. We too are all CELLS of the human race. It starts within you and is extended to all others on the planet. Consider yourself like a tiny electron. You are not too small to make a difference. Even the tiniest action you take will set forces into motion that will reverberate throughout the world for an eternity.

Like an infinite line of billions of tiny falling dominos. One tiny domino can affect billions. Each action you take has consequences around the world. You will not always see the affect you are creating, but it is inevitable nevertheless. Reach out and help. Extend the value and essence of your own life by helping to heal and save others and give them a chance for a better life.

Information about the founder, Albert V. Sheppard, may be found at http://www.global-trade-route.com/about_us.html

This is one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the world. It's in Pakistan, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Iran, Niger, China, Japan, Guatemala, India, Russia, Malaysia, Sir Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, Palastine,… Thousands of people, men, women, children, families and grandparents are fleeing for their lives. Thousands upon thousands are feared already dead. Several towns have been completely flattened. Entire populations have vanished. Thousands of children and families are crushed below collapsed buildings. These are not exaggerated numbers. It's hard to for a person's mind to grasp the magnitude and know how to feel about so much death and devastation. We feel so helpless to do anything. Thousand upon thousands of people are waiting to be rescued. Most are without food, or shelter and are dieing from the heat, cold, and dehydration. Many are in desperate need of medical assistance and medication. Federal, state, and local authorities are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the destruction and number of victims. The power station outages are widespread and have caused blackouts in widespread towns and even in adjoining states that were outside the disaster area. The roads are impassable. Crime, looting, fires have flared up everywhere. Pets and wild animals are scarred, traumatized, and in the streets. Hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, public, government, and emergency facilities have been destroyed or so badly damaged that they are out of service. Even the very old, the critically ill patients, and those in emergency surgery can not be reached in time. Most of them will die before help arrives.

Does this sound familiar? Perhaps all too familiar. Natural disasters are happening increasingly around the planet. We live on a violent planet and we are unprepared to deal with the magnitude of human suffering caused by natural disasters, disease, conficts, and wars.

Watch this short video, “The Previous Bush White House - Disaster and Environment.” The original content, my first film attempt, was produced by me, Albert V. Sheppard, and my two class teammates, Jennifer L. Nord, and Brendon Nystedt while at West Valley College in Saratoga, California as student filmakers. I re-cut and edited the film to produce the current video for my Humanities 432 class project and our class professor, Neha Dave, at DeVry University in Fremont while completing my Bachelor of Science degree in Technology Management and Biomedical Engineering. Credits run at the end of the film with thanks for clips that I borrowed from other videos. Some permissions are still pending. As you will notice, the film and this website is not for any commercial purpose nor profit. I have no ulterior motive or other agenda for this website. ...and I don't send out junk mail. It is my intent to bring attention and action to our common world problems in my small way and I hope you will do the same.

We need 1000's of ways that people can help to make the world better as well as to avoid or to recover from disasters and other human and planet tragedies

...sound naive? You'd be surprised what can be accomplished when one thinks about it. Think of something.
DO SOMETHING!!! Any little thing or a BIG THING!

I began this site in 2005
…but NOW we have part of the solution as to How Can We Help “THEM”

In 2008, Albert Sheppard was appointed a “FELLOW” by the Barack Obama Campaign for the Presidency of the United States to work as an “ORGANIZER” for Barack.

Revenue from publication of Barack Obama book will go to this charity

It's an amazing story and a brief view of the book that I am writing -- “How Obama Did It From The Grass Roots Up.” I put my life, my business, and my MBA graduate studies at Keller Graduate School of Management on hold and agreed to be re-located and drove over 1821 miles from my home in California to Iowa -- one of the states that needed “Fellows” and “Organizers” immediately for the campaign. I was trained in Des Moine Iowa before being assigned with my team to to work as an “ORGANIZER” based in Waterloo Iowa. This was my chance to do something MORE to HELP get Barack Obama elected, to HELP “THEM”, and to HELP America and the world get on the right track for the future. Here are a few photos from the campaign. I will post more of about this experience, photos, videos, and the presidential campaign grass-roots stories here in updates. I documented the campaign with hundreds of photos, notes, Barack Obama campaign memorabilia, videos, and stories. Check back. It's a major event in world HISTORY.