Contextually Relevant Healthcare
Reliable healthcare remains out of reach for about half of Haiti's population. In response, we partner with Haitian healthcare professionals who provide affordable, quality care in rural Southeast Haiti—delivered by people who know and understand these communities
For nearly ten years, we've partnered with Haitian nurses and doctors to bring healthcare to rural Southeast Haiti. Nurse M has been with us from the beginning. Through natural disasters, a pandemic, and Haiti's current humanitarian crisis, she's remained committed to serving these communities—especially pregnant mothers. (She's also a proud mom to three beautiful daughters herself.)
Between M's weekly clinics and monthly visits from a Haitian doctor, we help provide care to hundreds of patients each year. We've built two community health clinic buildings where M hosts her work.
Here's what makes this sustainable: the communities own these buildings, not us. We help each partner community establish a Federation—a local structure that can own property, collect donations, and make decisions on behalf of the community. This collective ownership builds pride and ensures the work continues long after we're involved
We have also been involved in other miscellaneous healthcare endeavors over years: We organized a COVID-19 Mitigation Team in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, implemented a Child Malnutrition Project in the Southeast Haiti community of Baie d’Orange in 2021 & 2022, pulled together a small medical team to respond to the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti in 2021, and have been hosting intermittent mobile-clinics in the remote community of Baguette since Summer of 2022. All of these projects have been comprised of Haitian medical professionals helping Haitians in need.
Our Earthquake Response team tending to wounds inflicted by the 7.0 Magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti in August 2021. By the end of this project, they helped care for 784 patients affected by the earthquake
Nurse N distributing nutritional supplements to families with severely malnourished children in Baie d’Orange at the beginning of 2022.
Our COVID-19 Mitigation team, they engaged with more than 1,300 households during the pandemic
Our mobile clinic team on their way to Baguette by boat!
Dr. P in of our Southeast clinics, Spring of 2024.
Medical Volunteer Trips
Our Haitian healthcare professionals run everything on the ground. This means that our beneficiaries are not dependent on international volunteers coming to Haiti to receive consistent access to healthcare. However, when possible, we do love sending international teams down to our clinics in Haiti simply to support and learn from our Haitian staff; and so that our friends can experience this beautiful country and culture. Unfortuantely, given the amount of unrest in Haiti, our volunteer trips have been put on pause.
