Haiti Medical Missions - Fall and Spring Breaks*

The community of Christian Brothers together with the Department of Biology and the Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis provide selected CBU students the opportunity of expense-paid service in an international setting as volunteers in a clinic for the poor in Haiti.

Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis (HMMOM) provides quality health care to the people of Haiti through a comprehensive primary care health clinic in Croix des Bouquets near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The facility provides day surgery, primary and preventive health care, dental and eye care, and serves up to 100 patients per day. The clinic also provides onsite educational training experiences for visiting, medical/dental and nursing faculty, residents, students, and private health care volunteer providers from abroad. Volunteers do not need to speak Creole/French since translators are available onsite.

While working in Haiti on behalf of HMMOM, volunteers are expected to participate in a variety of activities which may include, but are not limited to: medical and dental treatment to patients, making health-related presentations to children and adults, construction, painting, cooking, cleaning, and other activities as deemed necessary by the Executive Director, Mission Team Leader and/or Administrative Director.

In the selection of volunteers, preference is given to senior biology majors at CBU who are interested in pursuing a health care career. The duration of the Fall and Spring break trips is nine days including two traveling days. Interested students must have shown maturity, seriousness of purpose, responsibility, dedication to work and willingness to fulfill the duties of a volunteer. Selected students will be provided with travel, airport tax cost and living expenses while in Haiti by a generous donation of the community of the Christian Brothers. Brother Edward Salgado with the help of the faculty is responsible for the selection of the student volunteers.

*Please note that Spring and Fall break trips are currently on hold due to the political situation in Haiti. Contact the School of Science for more information at (901) 321-3445.

For more information visit Haiti Medical Mission website:
http://www.cbu.edu/sciences/biology/Haiti