In less than a week, the Healing Hands for Haiti-Minnesota team will be in arriving in Port au Prince, Haiti for its annual mission trip to a country that is great need of support and services. Haiti is the poorest county in the Western Hemisphere; and fifth poorest in the world. Simple day-to-day live is great struggle for the Haitian people due to extreme poverty.
Healing Hands for Haiti is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to fostering the expansion and quality of rehabilitation services for physically disabled adults and children in Haiti. Its primary goal is to enable the Haitian people to help themselves This is achieved through rehabilitation education, clinical treatment, disability prevention, and increasing public awareness of disabilities and rehabilitation in Haiti. We provide services such as prosthetics and orthotics, physical and occupational therapy, and physician and nursing services at the Healing Hands for Haiti rehabilitation clinic in Port-au-Prince as well as a variety of orphanages within Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. Orphanages are overfilled, understaffed, and struggle to meet the most basic needs of the children that live there. There is an inordinate number of abandoned children, many of which are physically and/or mentally challenged and living in orphanages throughout the poverty-stricken country.
The photos below are from 2007 and show some of the work that is completed while we are in Haiti. One of my personal favorite photos from 2007 was the picture of Obin (below in the red baseball shirt), after he received his prosthetic hand. The smile on his face was absolutely priceless.
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Hey Jody and all:
Wishing you great success in your trip. What an AWESOME opportunity and sharing of your talents. We enjoyed reading your blog and seeing past pictures. You are in inspiration to us all. Safe journeys. Steph and Robert Meinke
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