Opportunity provided by
Healing Art Missions
Aims to provide resources and funding to rural communities in Haiti that lack access to basic resources, such as healthcare, education, employment, and clean drinking water.
Medical missions trips generally take place when it is safe to travel. Missions are composed entirely of volunteers who pay for their own expenses, including travel. While medical professionals often make up much of the teams, others with specific skills, knowledge and expertise are often involved to help share and develop their talents through the challenges and perspective-changing environment of Haiti.
Our philosophy for working in Haiti is to provide employment for Haitians in a country where the unemployment is 80%, so our volunteers work along-side Haitians. Volunteers do not constitute cheap labor, they are partners with the community working, sharing and learning with people from a very different background and perspective. Through such experiences, HAM volunteers often discover a deep connection with the complex world that is Haiti and become ambassadors advocating for Haitians and HAM.
Teams to Haiti are composed of volunteers who go not to do-for but to do-with the community, to supplement the Haitian medical professionals working at HAM’s Centre de Santé Communautaire de Dumay and to share their knowledge and experience with the population, as well as to learn.
Past HAM missions have involved the creation and development of our medical clinic in Dumay, as well as mobile medical clinics to various other communities in Haiti including Cite Soliel, Croix-des-Bouquets , Delmas 33, Demier, Gran Ravine, Jacmel, Leogane, Penier, Petionville, Port-au-Paix, Port-au-Prince, St. Marc, and Warf Jeremie. Non-medical teams have been involved in a variety of projects including the installation of solar collection and storage systems, IT installation, clean water projects, various building projects, organizational systems, and education.
This opportunity is located in Dumay, Haiti.