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Who We Are:  Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves.
 Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries.

For more information, please visit www.projecthope.org

What We Do:

Building Rehab Programs for Long-Term Care

Shortly after the January earthquake, Project HOPE sent a team of experts from Mass General Hospital to evaluate how to best contribute to rebuilding health capacity in Haiti. They advised us to focus on rehabilitation needs for survivors near the quake’s epicenter. Since then, HOPE has been working to build a comprehensive Rehabilitation Center at the Adventist Hospital (HAH), together with partners Humanitarian Builders Haiti, Christian Blind Mission (CBM), and Prosthika.

The multi-year rehabilitation medicine program in Haiti will help care for the more than 10,000 patients that will require long-term rehabilitative care – including more than 4,000 amputees.

 What we have done:

We recently finished the FIRST Center at Diquni. (A ward, dorm, and rehabilitation building) They are co located with prosthetic manufacturing labs and a rehab center. Rehab activities have been going on for months without a dedicated space to offer services. HOPE, with a team of U.S. volunteers and Haitian workers assembled  modular buildings on the grounds of HAH – including a  Rehab Center, housing for international medical volunteers and housing for patients being fitted for prosthetic limbs. BLOG BACKGROUND

What We Want To Do: We plan to continue to work  to provide and support additional Rehabilitation Clinics in a number of locations in Haiti.  We also will participate in rebuilding a community south of Port au Prince.  

Haiti’s Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Health have both expressed gratitude and support for all of Project HOPE’s relief efforts in their country. And with their support, Project HOPE is currently in the midst of launching a multi-year rehabilitation medicine program in Haiti to care for the more than 10,000 patients that will require long-term rehabilitative care – including more than 4,000 amputees