We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
The Voluntary Health Program (VHP) is a nonprofit health care program which focuses on providing primary medical and surgical eye care to under-served rural areas in Central America and the Dominican Republic. VHP conducts short term missions offering comprehensive on site diagnosis, surgical and medical treatment of eye diseases as well as the distribution of corrective glasses.
VOSH volunteers are optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists, and medical personnel in 33 chapters. During the year 2003 VOSH completed more than 90 missions serving over 140,000 people. Missions are from one to two weeks. In addition VOSH has helped establish permanent eye clinics in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico . Their programs provide recycled eyeglasses, treat eye disease and perform eye surgery.
VIMM teams take medical care, medication, vitamins, supplies & Christian love and concern to impoverished areas of the world. Teams travel to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.
The Washington Overseas Mission is a humanitarian aid organization that has been sending medical, dental and construction teams to Honduras and Central America for more than 10 years. Based in the small town of Washington Missouri, their volunteers have helped to improve the lives and health of over 100,000 people in this region of Central America.
Waves of Health is a non-profit organization providing primary medical care to underserved communities in the developing world, including the Dominican Republic. In addition to conducting annual medical missions, Waves of Health aims to educate healthcare professionals about the health problems prevalent within the communities they serve.
Wayfinder Missions coordinates multiple short term medical/dental missions to Belize, Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic each year.
WINGS' mission is to increase access to contraception and reproductive health care by addressing common obstacles such as geographic isolation, lack of financial resources and education, and cultural barriers. They work with Guatemalan Non-Governmental Organizations and government health centers, reaching out to rural communities, subsidizing the cost of family planning methods, providing cervical cancer screening for the poorest Guatemalans, and offering seminars on reproductive health to rural poor Guatemalans.
Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach (WOGO) is a not-for-profit organization led by six female orthopaedic surgeons. As a team of Operation Walk, they are dedicated to providing free surgical treatments for patients in developing countries that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis or other debilitating bone and joint conditions.
World Pediatric Project (formerly International Hospital for Children) focuses on surgery and treatment for children of Latin America, with future plans to expand areas of service. They provide critical surgeries for children at WPP Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras.
WSF has sponsored yearly surgical missions. They typically complete 25-40 surgeries a day during a ten-day mission, including an annual mission to Honduras. WSF also assists medical facilities worldwide fulfilling requests for items and/or mission workers to provide surgical care. They have supported facilities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya and Russia.
Worldwide Heart to Heart Ministries is a non-profit group working inter-denominationally. They are incorporated in the U.S. and Honduras. Medical teams travel to Puerto Cortes and Tegucigalpita.
Wuqu Kawoq collaborates with community health workers to provide medical care for diabetics. It also provides training to midwives and health promoters. Wuqu’ Kawoq works in rural communities throughout the departments of Solola, Chimaltenango, Sacatepequez, and Suchitepequez.
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