Your dollars could save a life
We are advocates and a resource for the best health care we can give or receive access to in Haiti. Our goal is to see that our staff and their families, our school children, and Hope House children all receive the medical care they need to live healthy lives. This includes things like yearly physicals, a high blood pressure program, birth control, dental cleanings and restorations, or advocacy to local hospitals as needed for testing or treatment. We accomplish all of this through a qualified team of medical professionals that is comprised of both Americans who visit Haiti, and Haitians who follow up and cover routine care. We prioritize the training and education of our Haitian medical staff and work to equip them to care for their people.
One of our trained Haitian nurses operates a small clinic of her own where she treats patients daily and also directs our family planning program. Because of generous sponsors, we now have over 1,000 women receiving birth control and family planning education. In a country where women have an average of 5-7 children, but are often unemployed or live off from small businesses carried in buckets on their heads that earn less than $2 a day, mothers are forced deeper into poverty with every extra mouth to fee. Their children are denied an opportunity to go to school because it is too expensive, and many are malnourished, sick, or even abandoned because of their poverty. Many of the women in our program have been victims of rape, or are in abusive relationships, and pregnancies were not planned. Education and the access to birth control has been life changing for these women and their children, and prevents the suffering of many.