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Educating and feeding children in children's homes in Haiti Every child deserves a chance to thrive, not just survive. Supporting Hospitals and Clinics in Haiti and Bolivia Making a difference in the lives of children and their families
Educating and feeding children in children's homes in Haiti
Every child deserves a chance to thrive, not just survive.
Supporting Hospitals and Clinics in Haiti and Bolivia
Making a difference in the lives of children and their families

NAVMC Current Outreach

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    Educating Children and Young Adults

    We support the education of children and young adults.  We believe that education is a fundamental human right.  We believe that by providing access to education, we can help build a brighter future for themselves and their communities.

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    Feeding the Starving During Crisis

    NAVMC is partnering with Haitian small NGOs with boots on the ground to deliver meals to communities in Haiti. Haiti is one of just six countries in the world that has reached catastrophic levels of hunger.  This situation is growing worse daily and is due to gangs paralyzing the country, causing fuel shortages & skyrocketing food costs.

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    Supporting Hospitals in Haiti

    We support Hospitals in Port au Prince Haiti as they continue to treat Cholera, and trauma victims of gang violence, 90% of whom cannot pay for medical care. We believe that every individual has the right to access quality healthcare regardless of their economic status. Our organization is committed to bringing medical relief to those who need it most.

     

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    Providing Surgery and Disease prevention in Bolivia

    We are happy to announce that NAVMC will be sending medical teams to rural Bolivia in 2023, the first since the pandemic.

     

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2023 Update from Dr. "Bull" Durham, NAVMC President

 

NAVMC has not sent teams to Haiti since COVID struck our world in early 2020.  We have not been absent and have worked on projects from afar.  We have provided funds to educate and feed the children in orphanages and we have continued to support Hopital Bernard Mevs (HBM) and Adventiste Hospital of Haiti. We are also working with multiple partners to build a prosthetic center in North Haiti where currently amputees have no resources for prosthetic limbs.  We will keep you updated on this project.

As you may be aware, life in Haiti has hit an historical low point perhaps never seen before, certainly not in our time and our focus now is on this new crisis.   Gang violence, killings and kidnappings have wreaked havoc in the country, preventing local inhabitants from getting food and water.  The gangs control the ports preventing few shipment from getting into the country.  At present the port in Port-au-Prince is closed to shipments of any kind.  This has created a food crisis never seen before in our hemisphere.  Most of the hospitals are closed, lacking the fuel to run generators. Grid electricity is nonexistent. HBM turns on its generators on occasion to run the OR for dire emergency cases, when it can buy diesel.  Otherwise, no surgeries are being done and little health care is available. The March 2023 UN report gives a grim report: https://www.wfp.org/news/haiti-brink-hunger-levels-rising-warns-report

It is unclear when and if we will ever be able to return to the center of the violence, Port-au-Prince.  We are looking into working with a hospital in North Haiti.  It has been relatively safe to travel to Cap Haitien (Cap) in the Northern part of Haiti. We travelled there last May and August exploring options at Hopital Sacre Coeur (HSC) in the town of Milot, 30 minutes’ drive from Cap. There may be possibilities of sending teams there in the future, only if things quiet down and it again becomes safe to travel there.  For now, it is not safe. I doubt that trips to Port-au-Prince will be safe for some time.

For now, the dire need in Haiti is food.  Many of the charitable groups that have helped Haiti in the past have left and others are not able to aid due to the fuel crisis and the port closures.  Starvation is prevalent throughout the country and cholera has struck again.  Bleach, which is used to help prevent cholera, cannot be found in the country.  Project Medishare for Haiti has equipment ready to help fight the cholera epidemic, it has been stuck in port for months.

We are partnering with several organizations supporting homes for children in North Haiti.  They are providing food and water for families in their local community.  They have boots on the ground and are  providing food for their local community who cannot afford gas money to travel to the Markets which are often empty.  We are asking for donations to help support this effort in yet another time of dire need in Haiti.  As always, we are putting funds directly into the hands of those we know and trust.

We will continue to provide funds to the orphanage we have supported for the last 12 years in Port-au-Prince to keep these children fed as well.  They are surrounded by gang violence and it is difficult to get them to safer home at this point. My daughter Nerlande is living there now.  She has not been able to return to her home in Port-au-Prince due to the violence in her neighborhood.  Weekly she is venturing out into the community to search for food.  What little is available has quadrupled in price.

I do not know how long this will go on in Haiti, but I suspect it cannot go on long with the current situation.  Absent some significant change, many will die, and the global community will not be able to ignore it any longer.  For now, NAVMC can make a difference and help keep some Haitian victims fed.

Thank you for your continued and essential support, we can assure you that the funds are getting into the hands that need them. Be safe and keep Haiti and the recent victims in your hearts.

John, “Bull” Durham, NAVMC President

You can save a life today by donating:

–        Online at www.navmc.org

–        Mailing a check to NAVMC, 2532 N. 4th St. Box #342, Flagstaff, AZ 86004

Please share our message with friends and family, and keep Haiti in your hearts as the country experiences this humanitarian crisis. 


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Mail: NAVMC,2532 N. 4th St., Box #342,
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