Trip Total: $1895 Deposit, due at application: $250 Progress Payment, due January 15, 2024: $822.50 Final Payment, due February 15, 2024: $822.50
Handfuls of Hope partners with physicians, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, opticians, and other medical professionals to help meet the medical needs of the underserved through medical mission trips. Our teams work side-by-side with local medical professionals who volunteer their time to help care for the poor. We provide medical attention in our makeshift clinic. For those who are physically unable to come to the clinic, we mobilize a smaller team to make house visits to different villages. Our team typically is onsite for 3-5 days, enabling us to care for thousands of individuals - men, women, and children. The clinic is a very busy clinic; we often see whole families at one time. We set it up in a way where nurses triage patients and follow protocol to treat them. If the patient needs to see a provider, the nurse will use clinical judgment to send to providers. On average, we can see anywhere from 400-800 patients/per day. The majority of care we provide is primary care.
Trip Total: $1900 Deposit: $250, due due at application Progress Payment: $825, due February 1, 2024 Final Payment: $825, due May 1, 2024
Our Summer trip to the Dominican Republic will include a wide range of activities as we partner with the local church in outreach to the surrounding villages. Our VBS program will minister to hundreds of children in multiple locations. Our Isaiah 58 teams will distribute food to the poor. We will have opportunities to minister to children in the children's hospital and at an orphanage. For the construction-minded, there are construction projects great and small, ranging from small repairs to painting, to masonry, to full-on raising of a new building. Who Should Go? With the wide range of activities planned, the trip is appropriate for all ages from pre-teens to "mature" adults.
