Our Mission

We have had many questions about what exactly we are going to be doing on this trip to the Dominican Republic.  We will be partnering with Project Helping Hands, a Oregon based non-profit that sends teams of volunteers to provide medical care and health education for people in developing nations. 
 

 
The key to these teams' success is the commitment they bring to impact people in a life-changing, even life-saving way. Beyond treating illness, disease, trauma and providing care, the teams educate locals and village health care providers with a goal of seeing them become self-sufficient.
 
Our trip:
Dominican Republic (Tubagua, Munoz and Sosua Regions) 
July 2013

Tubagua will serve as home base for the team for the first week and we will travel out to the clinic locations each day and return to the same housing each evening. This team will provide both health care and health education services.  Areas to be served from the Tubagua location include Tubagua, the Yassica area (Including Yaroa Abajo and other remote communities)      
 
Beginning the second week of the trip the team will re-locate to Sun Camp .  From Sun camp we will be prividing services to the Hatian "Batey's".  There are three Batey's in Munoz where we will hold Health Care and Health Education Clinics serving a population of approximately 2,500 Hatians.    Their homes are very simple and the people very poor yet they are happy to have a place to live and work together as a united community.  They have very limited access to healthcare and most residents that the team saw in July of 2012 had not had a health exam in years, if ever!
 
The last two and a half days of clinics will be held at the "Monkey Jungle" health clinic where the team will also have the opportunity to enjoy the zipline, Monkey Jungle trails and other activities available at their facility.   The Monkey Jungle compound was built and operates to generate revenue to support their free medical clinic.  Their clinic is open on Saturdays to provide free medical and dental services to area residents.   We will be providing health care and health education services to students from nearby schools as well as the nearby communities which are primarily inhabited by Haitians that have limited health care access. 
 
Here are some pictures from the group that went on this very trip last July...