About Our Mission
| The genesis of Medical Mission South Haiti was with a small team in March, 2005, in Les Cayes, in southern Haiti. We saw patients with Jacob Baptiste, a Haitian medical student we had befriended previously but had never met. The experience was very positive, so we returned in November 2005 with a group of seventeen, including four doctors. We began working with Haitian medical students from the Haitian Academy, setting education of Haitian medical professionals as one of our main goals. In March of 2007, we returned with a team that saw patients at Charlotte, an extremely poor community outside Les Cayes, where people literally live in mud huts with dirt floors, cook over open fires, and have no access to health care, clean water, or even latrines. Since then, we have seen patients from Pwoje Espwa (Project Hope), an orphanage for over 600 children outside Les Cayes, which was founded by Father Marc Boisvert, an American catholic priest and ex-Marine, and from its surrounding communities. We have continued to provide care at Charlotte, and also at the prison in Les Cayes, and on Isle la Vache, an island off the coast. Sister Flora, a French Canadian nun, has an orphanage there with sixty children, many of them severely handicapped, that she has run for 27 years. To date, we have made nine trips to Haiti in the past three years, seeing over 4000 patients, and have taken almost sixty Americans with us on our teams, many of them multiple times. In November 2008 we are taking two teams in consecutive weeks, each consisting of about twelve members. |
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