2018
New in October 2018!
**THANK YOU to our newest partner, Northwest Dental Group!
Thank you to Northwest Dental Group! Your $600.00 dental supply stipend to Dr. Vava will be distributed over the next 6 months to assist Dr. Vava in at thke Homeland Clinic. Additionally Dr. Rob and the practice there has donated a box of Dental instruments and supplies worth more than $800.00. The team will hand-carry your offering in October.
**HOME clinic opens in Village Triano (Pop est. 8000)
In partnership with Luke101 (property and building owners) CHAMPs in Haiti will finance and manage a year round medical clinic operated by Haitian health care workers.
Dr. Jacques Peterson Thosiac
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Dr. Vava Residor DDS
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The CHAMPs board has voted to pay a stipend for bi-weekly clinics; Both doctors will receive $150.00/day and all medical supplies for distribution. Haitian economical standards defines this pay grade as a fair and living wage.
**Electronic Medical Record is ready for use!
In partnership with nonprofit EMR4DW (Electronic Medical Records for Developing Worlds) doctors onsite, as well as CHAMPs volunteers, will track progress and save medical records at the clinic. The iPADs provided for this computer program will operate using onsite solar-powered electricity!
**Electronic Medical Record is ready for use!
In partnership with nonprofit EMR4DW (Electronic Medical Records for Developing Worlds) doctors onsite, as well as CHAMPs volunteers, will track progress and save medical records at the clinic. The iPADs provided for this computer program will operate using onsite solar-powered electricity!
This year we will have made 2 trips to Haiti.
January
January
The excitement was BUILDING as concrete was poured and walls took shape for the future HOMELAND Clinic in Village Triano. The group of 18 from Colorado, Arizona, Nebraska and Minnesota saw over 1600 patients in 5 clinic days in and around the mountain range.
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2 Haitian health care providers secured have committed to practice in 2 clinics monthly. Purchasing furniture to Furniture and clinic supplies (med storage, exam tables, desks, chairs, etc., in process through the summer.
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October
Group of 16 will stay at the Deller’s Hotel once again, with daily trips to villages, holding clinics. Our focus will in and around Village Triano, NE of the capital. The multi-purpose building on the Homeland Property is now complete and many projects are coming together:
*Faith-based and youth programming
*Agricultural crop management and sustainability projects
*Networking / Introductions to with Village Triano neighborhood (est. population 6000-8000)
*Continued efforts to secure safe and accessible potable water for entire community
We are looking at all options to partner with other medical clinics in the region. Specifically a clinic connected to “Caritas Haiti” is across the road from our Home property. There are also at least 2 regional orphanages running very successful feeding programs in place; focusing on babies and children amid extreme malnutrition.
Although there are many unknowns about exact clinic composition, we are open to partnering with teams or any groups to utilize all skill sets, space and energies to make the HOMELAND Clinic start-up successful. Our goal for opening will be November 15, 2018!
