We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
Somos Amigos Medical Missions is a service trip that travels to the El Naranjito, Dominican Republic multiple times per year to provide medical and dental care for the local communities. The program was established in 1997 by a group of volunteers, dentists, and physicians looking to bring care for under-served areas in developing countries. The program welcomes physicians, dentists, hygienists, medical and dental students, nurses, and translators of all backgrounds and ages.
Sonje Ayiti is a group of Haitian and international humanitarians who collaborate to provide education, economic development, and health promotion. Works in Limonade in the North side.
Sonrisas Siempre provides dental services to underserved children in Honduras and Ecuador. It does so by educating and providing preventative, restorative, and surgical care during short term dental mission trips.
SAMS recruits, trains, and sends missionaries to several South American countries. SAMS staffs medical clinics in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. They sponsor short- and long-term missionaries in many countries.
Sove Lavi operates a primary care clinic in Port Sonde in Artibonite Valley. Hosts medical missions. Other work includes clean water projects, education and clothing and nutrition.
This church founded and sponsors the St. Genevieve Health Clinic in in Duval, Haiti. A nurse is at the clinic 6 days a week. The group sends short term medical and dental trips to the clinic as well.
Summit in Honduras is a humanitarian, non-profit 501 (c) 3 based in Breckenridge, Colorado. They provide outreach to impoverished families and children in rural western Honduras. Summit In Honduras missions include medical outreach, education, literacy, clean water and construction projects. On medical missions the team visits 3-6 villages and treat up to 7 or 8 hundred people over a week’s time. Medical mission teams offer basic health care and health education.
Surgeon Volunteers conducts short term surgical missions in Haiti and Cambodia. They have focused on providing urology and breast surgeries to these medically underserved countries.
Surgeons of Hope brings surgery and medical care to indigent children. They have established programs in countries throughout the world including a pediatric cardiac unit within the Lambert Clinic in Petionville, Haiti.
Surgical Eye Expedition (SEE) International provides sustainable medical, surgical, and educational services through volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the objectives of restoring sight and preventing blindness to disadvantaged individuals worldwide.
Surgical Volunteers International recruits highly skilled medical professionals to travel to developing countries for the purpose of delivering surgical care to children and young adults. SVI teams have performed surgeries on children with clefts, burns and urological problems in several countries including Guatemala and Haiti.
Surgicorps International travels the world to provide free surgical and medical care to disadvantaged individuals in developing countries. Sends one trip per year to Antigua, Guatemala.
SOIL is a non-profit organization focused on ecological sanitation and composting as a means of enhancing public health and agricultural productivity in Haiti. SOIL also sponsors a weekly health clinic at the Technology Center in Shada, Department du Nord.
Dentists, ophthalmologists, obstetricians from Taiwan travel to Belize, Dominican Republic, and Haiti on medical missions.
Team 5 Medical Foundation sends teams of medical and veteran volunteers to remote areas throughout the world, including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, to provide medical assistance and medical training.
Team 5 Medical Foundation sends teams of medical and veteran volunteers to remote areas throughout the world, including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, to provide medical assistance and medical training.
Started in 2002, Team Canada Healing Hands works closely with Healing Hands for Haiti, a US based NGO, and works and stays at the Healing Hands clinic (Kay Kapab) and guesthouse. Work is dedicated to the provision of rehabilitative education, training, and care in areas of need.
The Diocese of Milwaukee Haiti Project is a partnership between the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee and the people of St. Marc’s Episcopal Church of Jeannette, located in the southern peninsula of Haiti. The project has built two schools for 600 students in preschool through eighth grade, a health clinic, water cisterns, latrines, staff housing, and a rectory/community center. Each year the project raises about $70,000 to cover the salaries for 40 employees including teachers, nurses, health care providers, and agricultural workers. It also funds operating and expansion costs for the school, clinic, and agricultural programs.
The Dorsainvil Foundation is a non-profit organization, dedicated to providing adequate healthcare to all individuals. The foundation's efforts are mostly focused in Arcahaie, Haiti, where they support a free medical clinic that is open six days a week. The Dorsainvil Foundation conducts medical missions on a quarterly basis.
The mission of The Flying Hospital is to bring medical aid and education as well as supplies and medicines on a non-discriminatory and impartial basis to impoverished people of all nations, and to assist the suffering victims of natural and man-made disasters wherever they may occur in the world. The Flying Hospital, Inc., was established by Mercy Airlift to bring to the world the largest fully equipped surgical hospital ever constructed inside an aircraft. Most missions include outpatient surgery, major surgery- such as orthopedic, general, neurosurgical or gynecological procedures as well as general medical examinations and basic dentistry.
Mercy and Sharing has ten active projects throughout Haiti including two orphanages (one of which is for terminally ill and handicapped children), six primary schools, the Mercy Health Center in Delmas and the Abandoned Infant Unit in Hospital General H.U.E.H. Port-au-Prince.
Founded at Providence United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC. Medical and surgical teams go in groups of about twelve to work at two clinics near Cap Haitien, Haiti. The missions are about eight or nine days. Missions go to the same clinics in January, May and September every year.
The Haiti Project was begun in 1991 in Mahotte as a Christian mission providing nutrition, education, public health, and medical care using volunteers who come from the U.S. four times a year to three different clinics. The teams are usually short-term (about a week) and provide life-saving care in a very challenging setting without bnenefit of a laboratory,x-ray equipment, etc.
The Healing Hands Foundation provides high quality surgical care to children with complex congenital malformations in areas lacking resources and surgical expertise. They have conducted surgical missions in several countries including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
The Iguana Squad is a non-profit organization providing educational and medical assistance to the people of Belize. The Iguana Squad conducts an annual mission focused on the construction of educational facilities and administering healthcare. Medical teams provide medical examinations, dental work, prescription of pharmaceuticals, distribution of eyewear and general health seminars.
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