Country: Honduras
Length of Trip: 1 Week
Trips per Year to Latin America: 2
Cost: Not available
Urban/Rural: Rural
Type of Volunteer: Physician/mid-level provider, Nurse, Paramedic/EMT
Type of Organization: Secular NGO
Type of Clinic: Mobile or Informal Clinic
Description:
Summit in Honduras is involved in caring for and about people in rural areas of Honduras. The mission trips focus on both medical and construction outreach in an ongoing effort to help attain sustainability.
Organizational Base: Brechenridge, Colorado
Other Programs: Education and Scholarships, Literally Book Drive, Women's Micro Enterprise Clean Water (distribution of ceramic water filters), Construction Projects (school), Safe Birth Kits for Midwives
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I have made 5 trips to Honduras as a gynecologist and generalist. We serve a variety of sites, ranging from a clinic in La Entrada to an orphanage to villages that rarely see missions. All of these opportunities are valuable; we work hard for sustainability by referring patients needing follow up or long term care to the clinic. Summit in Honduras has initiated a team of Health Guardians. We have done various types of training for them and support one of the Honduran clinic physicians for their supervision.
we have delivered home water filters to many villages. The incidence of diarrheal illnesses, especially among children, seems to improve. We are looking into cooking stoves that will be culturally acceptable in order to decrease the incidence of asthma and other respiratory illnesses among moms and kids.
August 13, 2017