Description:

Our on-site mission trips are the core of our operations, serving a range of purposes. On these missions, our medically trained volunteers, personnel, and members of the board travel to developing regions in Latin America to provide medical supplies and procedures, training sessions, hands-on education, and consulting services to local medical staff and community leaders. Below you can read some details about the services and programs we offer during on-site missions.

Hand-carrying supplies

On every mission trip we take, each participant hand-carries duffel bags filled with pharmaceuticals and equipment to leave with clinics and medical personnel at the site. These bags often exceed $10K-worth of materials. While these drop-offs value at a mere fraction of our larger freight shipments, we believe in maximizing the efficiency of all of our overseas missions, and on-site trips afford us a perfect opportunity to transport relatively small amounts of supplies while traveling for various purposes.

Providing dental procedures

Our volunteer dentists arrive at our mission sites—often rural areas with little to no access to dental care—supplied with portable dental units that allow them to perform extractions, fillings, cleanings, preventive tooth decay treatments, and tooth reconstructions. Even in those regions where local dentists are available, they are often only equipped to perform extractions.

Educating medical experts

More than just charitable expeditions, Hope for a Healthier Humanity's on-site missions are educational enterprises that take a "train the trainer" approach. Our volunteer experts provide enhanced medical instruction to local professionals, sharing new techniques, technologies, and findings in the field. Nurses, medical assistants, dentists, and doctors—both specialized and not—participate in these programs.

Educating community leaders

Our education programs benefit local laypeople as well as medical professionals. In educating community leaders, our volunteers can make sure that influential citizens are well informed and can, in turn, disseminate basic medical knowhow to individuals throughout their communities. These local nonspecialists are trained in rudimentary health care services, including, but not limited to, pre- and postnatal child care, maternal care, preventive medicine, diagnostics, home remedies, vital sign monitoring, suturing and wound care.

Consulting with clinics

Hope for a Healthier Humanity offers expert advice to local clinics on the improvement of existing health care infrastructures, identifying in detail how these systems might be improved to ultimately provide the most efficiency, sustainability and overall benefit. During these consultations, future and ongoing didactic courses of action are also developed in a calibrated and targeted way.

Organizational Base: Staten Island, New York

Other Programs: Dental clinics, health promotion and training of in-country medical workers