Healthcare and Wheelchairs, Haiti
Over the past several years the critically impoverished country of Haiti has been buffeted with one disaster after another. First there were hurricanes, then devastating earthquakes which were followed by a cholera epidemic in some of the shanty towns where people took refuge when their homes were destroyed. Many still live in critically sub-standard housing where disease is rampant.
Haiti Healthcare Partners runs a clinic serving over 4,000 people near Grand Coline. Doctors travel by motorcycle to deliver vaccinations, pre-natal care and services to patients too ill to travel the sometimes long distances to the clinic. In addition, especially since the 2010 earthquake where so many sustained injuries leading to amputations, there has been a critical need for wheelchairs in Haiti. Free Wheelchair Mission seeks to supply the disabled poor with mobility and the means to live independent lives by distributing easily assembled and maintained wheelchairs in Haiti, as well as Chile and Peru.
One days supply of medicines for mobile clinic $39
One wheelchair for the disabled $66