About
the Haiti Mission
In the early eighties, The Haiti Mission, founded at Providence United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, began as a construction project, building churches, clinics, and drilling wells in the northern region of Haiti. This connection came first as a request from the Eglise Methodiste d’Haiti.
What began as an opportunity for our church members to share in a kind of cultural sharing and enrichment with a very different community grew into an ongoing effort to improve the condition of a deprived people with an almost unendurable life struggle. This now involves volunteers from many areas in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.
In time, construction teams gave way to medical and surgical teams that go in groups of about twelve professionals and non-medical professionals to work at two clinics near Cap
Haitien, Haiti. The missions are about eight or nine days, with departure on Friday and return usually on the Saturday eight days later. Missions go to the same
clinics in January, May and September every year. These clinics were established by this project years ago, and provide for most the only medical care they ever receive. The surgery teams work both at Hopital Bon Samaritain in
Limbe, Haiti and in a Haitian camp for refugees in the Dominican Republic.
Teams are lodged together at hotels or church guest houses, with clean and comfortable accommodations. Meals are prepared by Haitian cooks, they are appetizing and more than adequate, served either family-style or buffet. Safe drinking water is provided.
Each team member is responsible for his individual expense, paid in advance, which includes air transportation from Fort Lauderdale to Cap
Haitien, Haiti, and return to Fort Lauderdale; also food and lodging in Florida and Cap
Haitien. Each member must arrange his domestic flights from home to Florida and return.