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Haiti Trips Gallery
Haiti Gallery NAVMC Fundraiser for Haiti 2012 Fundraiser video for the Northern Arizona Volunteer Medical Corp doing medical aid for the Haiti Relief Effort and helping orphanages in Port-au-Prince. Produced, filmed and edited by Denise M. Stilley 2018 HOPITAL (HOSPITAL) BERNARD MEVS 2018 RENMEN FOUNDATION How to help We are passionate about securing a healthy and safe future for families and children. We invite you to join us as a volunteer, a donor, or a sponsor in the array of service opportunities we offer. INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING? VOLUNTEER WE NEED doctors to lead trips to haiti Two annual trips aren’t enough. If you are a doctor interested in leading additional trips, please contact us. Contact us
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Bolivia Trips Gallery
Bolivia Gallery kindness beyond borders 2018 https://xht.9cc.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bolivia.mp4 2024 Trip https://navmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024-Bolivia-medical-trip-IMG_2328.mov 2017 Trip How to help We are passionate about securing a healthy and safe future for families and children. We invite you to join us as a volunteer, a donor, or a sponsor in the array of service opportunities we offer. INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING? VOLUNTEER WE NEED SUPPLIES DONATE
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Haiti
HAITI How to help We are passionate about securing a healthy and safe future for families and children. We invite you to join us as a volunteer, a donor, or a sponsor in the array of service opportunities we offer. Upcoming Trips Stay tuned for more information. Latest updates INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING? VOLUNTEER WE NEED doctors to lead trips to haiti Two annual trips aren’t enough. If you are a doctor interested in leading additional trips, please contact us. Contact us What we do SURGICAL CARE & Mentoring In January 2010, Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake. Since then, NAVMC has been a major lifeline for the sick, injured, hungry, and homeless. We have worked at Hôpital Bernard Mevs in Port-au-Prince (HBM), one of the few hospitals in Haiti that cares for the severely injured. Making a difference WHy it matters After the 2010 earthquake, Project Medishare, a Miami nonprofit set up a tent hospital at the airport in Port-au-Prince. Three NAVMC teams were part of this effort, helping 250 patients at any given time. Six months later, when Project Medishare moved into Hôpital Bernard Mevs (HBM), NAVMC was there again to help. Now Bernard Mevs is one of the most important trauma and critical care hospitals in the country. NAVMC has worked with Project Medishare and the surgical team at HBM and has given thousands of hours to set up operating rooms. In addition, the organization has provided $2M worth of desperately needed equipment to treat the injured people who flood the gates at HBM. Patients who otherwise might not receive care, are being saved. lbs of Supplies 0 Surgeries 0 + Volunteers 0 + Trips 0 RENMEN FOUNDATION Renmen Home for Children sustained significant damage during the 2010 earthquake, and the NAVMC team has helped them rebuild, ensuring a safe and secure facility for up to 50 orphans. With our help, Renmen continues its 20-year history providing for Haiti’s most needy children. NAVMC supports education for Renmen residents and local children in a country that does not have a reliable public education system. Our help has led to students receiving nursing, law, and other degrees and certifications. Haiti 2017 My Brothers, Ours Sisters Photo exhibit by local photographers, Michael Collier and Jake Bacon Our Sponsors Contributions continue to help make a huge difference for those who rely on our services with disasters and other emergencies. STEVE & KIM WARD KAREN & MICHAEL DEMANGONE JRUE & LAUREN HOLIDAY BOB & SUZANNE GOLUB With your support we make a difference for the people of Haiti. DONATE
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Update from the President
Update You can save a life today by donating! Donate Now Or mail a check: NAVMC2532 N. 4th St., Box #342Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Please share our message with friends and family, and keep Haiti in your hearts as the country experiences this humanitarian crisis. 2023 UPDATE 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
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Bolivia
BOLIVIA How to help We are passionate about securing a healthy and safe future for families and children. We invite you to join us as a volunteer, a donor, or a sponsor in the array of service opportunities we offer. Upcoming Trips Postponed until further notice Stay tuned for more information. Latest updates INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING? VOLUNTEER WE NEED SUPPLIES DONATE What we do SURGICAL CARE NAVMC’s Bolivia team travels annually to Palacios, Bolivia to perform surgery for patients from rural areas that otherwise lack access to treatment. This life-changing care allows our patients return to their jobs and to care for their families. We partner with Centro Medico Susan Hou Clinic to select surgery candidates and provide follow-up care. Using two operating rooms for 4–5 days, NAVMC volunteers perform surgeries including hysterectomies, gallbladder removal, hernia repairs, and more. ROOF PROJECT In June 2017 NAVMC helped to fund a construction project in Palacios, Bolivia. The team removed the commonly used thatch roofs in favor of corrugated metal ones. The new roofs serve to reduce the spread of Chagas Disease in the village. Read More… Making a difference WHy it matters Typically the cost for NAVMC Bolivia to conduct one surgery is $500 which includes renting and setting up the OR, pre and post op nursing care, and all meds and supplies for a patient’s stay. We ship most of our own supplies well in advance of a trip because much of what we need is not available, shipping takes four months, and costs $3500. Volunteer medical professionals cover their own costs, and one trip can cost up to $2,000. Clinic Patients 0 + Procedures 0 + Volunteers 0 + Our Sponsors Contributions continue to help make a huge difference for those who rely on our services with disasters and other emergencies. STEVE & KIM WARD KAREN & MICHAEL DEMANGONE JRUE & LAUREN HOLIDAY BOB & SUZANNE GOLUB Please support NAVMC’s efforts in Bolivia. Thank You! DONATE
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