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Bon Voyage! (Medical Mission Trips to Haiti)

25 Nov

Are you interested in joining a mission trip to Haiti? Well if you are the following organizations are a great place to start your research! Most of the organizations listed focus primarily on “medical missions” but not all of them. Be sure to review each organization carefully and make an informed decision, if you should choose to travel to Haiti.

(Photo Credit: Northwest Haiti Christian Mission)

1.          Agape in Action

2.          American Red Cross (Haiti)

3.          Assist International

4.          Association of Peasants Fondwa (APF)

5.          Believers World Outreach

6.          Beyond Travel Partners

7.          Christian Medical and Dental Society’s Global Health Outreach Program

8.          ChristianVision Eye Services to Haiti

9.          Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism

10.       Florida A&M University Farmer-to-Farmer Program 

11.       Forward Edge International

12.       Global Aid Network (GAiN USA)

13.       Global Volunteer Network

14.       Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis

15.       Haiti Outreach Ministries

16.       Health Teams International, Inc.

17.       Heaven Sent Ministries

18.       His Healing Hands

19.       Hope for Haiti

20.       Hospitals of Hope International

21.       Institute for International Medicine

22.       International Medical Corps

23.       International Medical Relief

24.       Medical Ministry International

25.       Medical Mission Outreach

26.       Mercy Works

27.       Ministries of Aides International

28.       Northwest Haiti Christian Mission

29.       Partners In Development

30.       Partners in Health

31.       The Christian Health Service

32.       Volunteers in Medical Missions

[Note: These are not the only organizations that go on mission trips to Haiti.  M&L is not affiliated with any of the organizations listed in this post. Our primary focus is to find and share information. If the ones listed above do not meet your needs please continue to research other organizations.]

Tips on how to fund a mission trip:

  1. How to Fund Mission Trips
  2. Ways to Raise Money for a Missions Trip
  3. How to Raise Funds for Mission Trips

Bon Voyage!

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Cholera is spreding in Haiti at an alarming rate

25 Nov OB-LA702_haiti1_G_20101124223829

WSJ Reports

Father holds son while being treated for cholera at a health facility on Wednesday in Cabaret, Haiti. (Photo Credit: WSJ)

“PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Cholera is now projected to spread more than twice as fast as originally estimated across this ravaged country, with more than 425,000 cases of the potentially fatal disease expected in the first six months since it appeared, a United Nations official said.

As many as 200,000 of those cases are expected before the end of the year, with a peak before Christmas, Nigel Fisher, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, said in an interview.”

“When we were in the initial stages of planning, we had said there would be 200,000 cases over six months,” he said. “Today the figures are 425,000 over six months, of which 200,000 before year’s end, with a peak before Christmas.”

“The predictions reflect the explosive nature of the cholera epidemic, which erupted in rural Haiti in October but has since spread to each of the country’s 10 regions, as well as Port-au-Prince, where more than 1.3 million displaced earthquake survivors live in crowded camps.

Officially, the disease had sickened 66,593 people and killed 1,523 as of Monday, according to the Ministry of Health. But the real number of cases is likely much higher, health officials acknowledge, partly because the systems used to count the ill aren’t capturing every nonhospitalized case. Cholera is spread through contaminated water and food, and officials had predicted it would move around the country quickly because sanitation is poor and clean water is lacking.”

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