We are hosting two Medical Missions Trip to Cap Haitien, Haiti this year.
Trip 1 will be a medical trip April 15-24th, 2016. This will be the 13th trip that we have sponsored since January 2010.
Some details about the trip: This trip will be our second trip to Cap Hatien. Cap Hatien is a beautiful little town on the north coast of Haiti. During our last trip, we established a relationship with the village of Latennerie, which is a small village about 30 minutes from Cap Hatien. There are no nearby hospitals. It has a clinic which was closed in 2010 due to a lack of funds. We re-opened the clinic on our last trip. Our goal is to help this community maintain the clinic year round with visits from local doctors as well as our mission trips. We will also be looking for some construction expertise to advise us on how to get the clinic in good condition. We will plan on being in clinic 4 1/2 days as well as taking a trip up to see the Citadelle Laferriere.
Trip 2 will be a medical/back to school trip September 30-October 9, 2016. We will again be returning to Cap Haitien and Latennerie. We will again have clinic there, but this time we will also be focusing on the school and the children who go there. The school has about 120 students. We are going to examine each of them, create a medical chart, make sure they have vitamins for the year (to be given at school, treat them for worms and scabies (both are endemic), and address any other medical issues that come up. We would very much like an optometrist and a dentist for this trip, and we will be needing nurses, for sure. Also, depending on what our construction advisers recommend from our April trip, we may need a construction team to oversee repairs to the clinic. We will plan on a beach visit to cap off the week.
We are excited by the opportunity to facilitate a lasting improvement in this community.
Team members will apply for specific roles (usually more than 1 team member per role), and you may apply for more than one role, if applicable. All roles assigned will be within the team member's s usual scope of practice.
Team Leader:
Medical Team:
Physician
Nurse Practitioner
Head Nurse
RN: Primary nurse
RN/EMT: Floater
RN/EMT/LPN/MA: triage/pharmacy
Non-Medical
Pharmacist
Bio-Medical Engineer
Dentist
Optometrist
Construction Team:
Cost for the trip is $1600, which includes: Airfare, lodging, food, ground transportation, baggage fees, t-shirts, and food and medicine for our patients, and travel insurance. All donations for the trip are tax-deductible. All donors will get a receipt for tax purposes.We encourage you to raise more the required amount if possible so we can purchase additional supplies for the trip. We also accept donations of medical supplies such as gauze dressings, adult, children's and infant's ibuprofen/tylenol, infant/children's multivitamins, adult multivitamins, neosporin/triple antibiotic ointment. Infant/children's clothing (gently used) are also needed. Feel free to hold a fundraiser or if you want to have a fundraiser please let us know and we can give you suggestions and assistance. Donations through PayPal are preferred, but if you need to mail a check you may send the donations to: P.O. Box 2, Jefferson City MO, 65102. Please be sure to include an email address so we can email the tax receipt.
Interested in either or both of these trips? email us at mission@ke-nou.org
