Description:

Empowering an entire community to care for the health of its children is powerful, effective, and sustainable. International Child Care partners with the community to advance health and wellness through education, health promotion, child health clinics, immunization programs, traditional birth attendant training, and micro-enterprise projects.

ICC’s Community Health projects reach out to people living in remote areas of rural Haiti as well as urban and rural areas of the province of Santiago, Dominican Republic. Working alongside the people in the community, International Child Care has achieved impressive results by linking community-based health promotion and illness prevention with hospital and clinic-based care.

We invite you to experience and immerse yourself in the cultures of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Taking a "mission trip" with ICC is very different from trips you have gone on in the past. We firmly believe in empowering the communities we work in, allowing them to be the change they seek. Instead of going in and doing for them, we work with them. We listen to their needs, give advice, love, and pray.

Haitians and Dominicans are productive, genuine, innovative, and capable people. They simply lack resources, not expertise. With such staggering levels of unemployment, a MEET provides an alternative to sending work teams where there are already so many willing and able to do the job. Through MEET trips, ICC builds relationships, not walls and barriers. Our program emphasizes interaction, participation, and human connection rather than economic or capital development. We strive to build a shared humanity and serve as Christ has called us to, alongside "the least of these...our brothers and sisters."

Organizational Base: Ann Arbor, Michigan