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ACTS- Americans caring, teaching, sharing The mission of ACTS is to promote sustainable programs for health, education and development in collaboration with rural Honduran communities in the Yoro region and to foster cross-cultural understanding between us. |
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Adventure in Missions Adventure In Missions is a non-denominational Christian ministry dedicated to bridging the gap between North Americans and the needy and neglected of Honduras. Has medical outreach teams. Not related to Adventures in Mission (adventures.org) |
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Agape Flights Agape Flights makes regular weekly flights to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Bahamas for over 350 missionary families. Agape distributes medicine, medical supplies, nutritional supplements. They coordinate short-term, volunteer mission teams and organizes and implement self-sustaining community development projects. Also serves in Honduras and Belize. |
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Alabama Honduran Missions From Christ United Methodist Church, Jasper, Alabama. Groups go under the umbrella of Volunteers in Missions, United Methodist Church. They are interdenominational. 45 teams went last year on medical, dental, eye, and building trips. Opened Ciriboya Health Clinic. Goal: Function as a regional hospital, clinic, emergency services 24/7, referral center, training for medical personnel, eye, dental, and public health center. |
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Aldo Castañeda Foundation (La Fundacion Aldo Castañeda) Guatemalan organization established to develop a high quality pediatric cardiac unit in Guatemala (to help children from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Dominican Republic and Haiti). Funds raised help train medical, nursing and technical personnel and also acquire the necessary equipment. Founded by top pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. Aldo Castaneda. |
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All Saints' Episcopal Church For over twenty years, people representing the Episcopal Church in Mississippi have been going to Honduras to work with the local people to improve medical, dental, and veterinary health in the area. |
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Ambos Foundation Ambos Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1998 to help the people of Sabanagrande, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Programs include a medical clinic and an eye care program. Ambos welcomes visiting medical teams. |
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Americans Caring Teaching Sharing (ACTS) Honduras ACTS is a partner in health care and community development in Honduras. Through their clinic in El Rosario, ACTS volunteers are enabling Hondurans to help themselves and to manage their own clinic. |
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Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International BMDMI sends short-term and full-time missionaries abroad to minister to impoverished people through medical-dental volunteer mission teams. For the past 3 decades, BMDMI has been ministering in the remote villages of Honduras and Nicaragua striving to meet the needs of people who are in great need. Our short-term mission teams comprised of professionals and non-professionals alike play a critical role in meeting these needs. |
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Baptist Medical Missions International Baptist Medical Missions International is a program that offers free medical care by volunteer health care professionals where there is a need around the world. There are hundreds of doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses and a host of other health care professionals who make up the teams working with BMMI. Countries supported include Honduras, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. |
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California Honduras Institute for Medical and Education Support (CHIMES) Forges cooperative efforts by Cubans, Hondurans and North Americans for the development of clinics and health care for Garifuna communities. |
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Cape CARES -- Central American Relief Efforts Cape CARES sends teams of doctors, dentists, nurses, translators and support personnel to Honduras about 6-10 times each year. Offers free medical and dental services to people in locations where there is no access to on-going medical treatment. |
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Carolina Honduras Health Foundation The Foundation provides free medical and dental care and health education on disease prevention, sanitation and nutrition through a clinic in Limon known as the Carolina Health Clinic. Several teams visit the clinic each year. |
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Casa de Esperanza Ministries (House of Hope) Casa de Esperanza provides medical, dental and construction services in central Honduras. The portable dental clinic provides free dental care. Medical clinics are periodically run alongside the dental clinics. |
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Catholic Medical Missions Board Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is a U.S.-based Catholic-charity focusing on global healthcare, particularly the well-being of women and children. CMMB works to fight HIV/AIDS from Africa to Asia, to combat tuberculosis in Zambia, and to provide primary healthcare in Latin America and the Caribbean. Honduran program includes a network of clinics through Catholic University. |
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Central American Medical Outreach (CAMO) CAMO is a non-denominational Christian organization providing medical equipment, community service, supplies and training to impoverished regions of Central America. Many CAMO programs and medical missions serve Honduras. |
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Childspring International Childspring helps families acquire birth certificates, passports, and visas for the child to come to the USA for the medical treatment they need. Childspring petitions doctors and hospitals to provide the most modern and technologically advanced treatments for the children. |
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Christ the King Catholic Church Honduras Mission (Little Rock, AR) This church sponsors a large annual medical mission to Trujillo Hospital in HN with multiple specialists including surgeons. Also sends hearing team, school team and construction team. 2009 is the 12th mission year. |
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Christian Eye Ministry CEM provides basic eye services and training of healthcare professionals, in addition to research projects focused on common eye diseases in Honduras and Ghana.In the fall of 2001, CEM opened the Abundante Life Church Ophthalmology Center to serve the poor families of Tegucigalpa and surrounding regions. |
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Christian Service International (CSI Ministries) CSI works with churches, schools, universities, families and individuals to design custom international and national outreach experiences. CSI handles all the details and provides the assistance group leaders and coaches need to have a successful experience. Works in Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Honduras, among other countries. |
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Compassion Med International Compassion Med International (CMI) is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization whose purpose is to provide international medical relief around the world, including Honduras. |
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CURE International CURE International establishes and operates teaching hospitals in the developing world for the medical and spiritual healing of disabled children and their families. Christian organization that builds, funds and manages hospitals and supply surgical, medical and comprehensive rehabilitative care in a teaching context. Braces, artificial limbs and other implements are manufactured and provided to enable children to become productive adults. |
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Doctors for Global Health (DGH) Doctors for Global Health is an organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding, Doctors for Global Health has attracted volunteers, including doctors and other health care workers, students, educators, attorneys, and engineers. Most of these volunteers work within their own communities, while others have also spent from a week to over a year working in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and the United States. |
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EngenderHealth EngenderHealth works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. They provide technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce. Countries served include Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. |
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Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation is an effort on the part of health professionals and other lay members of the Episcopal Church to organize and augment the support of our medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in mission stations of Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Uganda. |
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Farm of the Child Farm of the Child is an orphange, school and clinic west of Trujillo. Their Sacred Heart Clinic offers medical services for residents of the Farm and the surrounding villages. Regular office hours for consults are offered two days a week, while emergency care is available at all hours. The clinic is staffed by a full time volunteer physician, nurse or physician’s assistant. A dentist visits once a year. They might start hosting dental missions. |
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Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME) FAME partners with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services, including medical facilities, medicines and medical supplies, and short-term mission teams. Countries served include Honduras, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. |
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Friend Ships Friend Ships provides large scale humanitarian aid, establishes development programs for people lacking essential human needs and supports ongoing programs that are having a significant, positive impact on their communities. Mission teams travel to "Friend Ships Village" in Roatan, Honduras. |
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Friends of Barnabas Foundation The Friends of Barnabas began working in Honduras in the mid- 1990s. Their work evolved into roadside medical clinics staffed by volunteer doctors and nurses from the US. Now all teams have a physician and at least two other medical professionals. FOBF's Extended Care Program for children schedules and takes them to medical appointments |
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Friends of Honduran Children Friends of Honduran Children is a non-profit, volunteer-driven, grass roots organization. Working with Sociedad Amigos de los Niños, they aim to help the impoverished children of Honduras to break the cycle of poverty which controls their lives and become independent, self-reliant, contributing adults. Work includes medical brigades. |
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Gehlen Mission Honduras Gehlen Catholic Mission Honduras 'Changing Lives,' was born in the fall of 2000. The vision was to create a program where students from Gehlen would do missionary work in a developing country. Sister Valerie Knoche and Sister Barb Zimmer run the Catholic Mission out of the small village of El Guante. El Guante is located about 2 hours north of Tegucigalpa and is home to about 1,000 people. |
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Global Health Outreach (Christian Medical & Dental Associations) Global Health Outreach operates under the auspices of the CMDA. Founded in 1931, CMDA provides programs and services supporting its mission to "change hearts in healthcare" with a current membership of more than 17,000. CMDA promotes positions and addresses policies on healthcare issues; conducts overseas medical evangelism projects through its mission arm, Global Health Outreach; coordinates a network of Christian doctors for fellowship and professional growth; sponsors student ministries in medical and dental schools; distributes educational and inspirational resources; hosts marriage and family conferences; provides Third World missionary doctors with continuing education resources; and conducts academic exchange programs overseas |
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Global Medical Brigades Global Medical Brigades is an international network of more than 50 university clubs and volunteer organizations that provide communities in developing nations with sustainable health care solutions. Our current emphasis is in Honduras, where nearly 1,000 GMB volunteers travel annually to deliver services to our 40 communities. |
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Global Medical Relief (GMR) GMR is a collaborative effort among university students, medical professionals and other non-profit organizations to provide relief and additional resources through medical brigades, educational outreach programs and shipment of medical supplies. |
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Grace Dental Mission, Inc. Grace Dental Mission provides dental clinics in support of church planting missionaries both in the United States and on foreign fields. From 1996 through May of 2004 they treated several hundred missionary family members and participated in 17 dental clinics in 11 different countries, including Honduras. |
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Heart for Honduras Started by Salem Lutheran Church members in Tomball Texas, Heart for Honduras sends two medical and dental missions a year in the La Esperanza area. |
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Heart to Honduras Heart to Honduras is a Christian ministry that seeks to address both the spiritual and the material needs of the poor in Honduras. They send several medical and dental temas to Honduras every year, generally in or around Conchias. |
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Hearts for Honduras (Liberty Corner Presbyterian Church) Liberty Corner Presbyterian Church's Hearts for Honduras project sends an annual group to Honduras. Includes medical, eye care, and dental teams as well as outreach, education and children's services. |
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Heaven's Reach Ministries Located in Yamaranguila, near La Esperanza. Ministries include student sponsorship, mountain evangelism and church planting. Full-time RN does medical clinics throughout the year in surrounding villages and up in the Opalaca Mountains. |
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Helping Hands for Honduras Helping Hands for Honduras (HHH) has established contacts with several hospitals in the United States which admit children from Honduras to perform life saving surgery, pro bono. Helping Hands for Honduras is responsible for obtaining and sending the necessary medical test results to these hospitals for evaluation. Upon acceptance, HHH works with the Consular Section in the United States Embassy In Tegucigalpa, Honduras to obtain visas for the children and their mothers to come to the United States for medical treatment. |
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Helping Hands Ministry An evangelical Christian ministry created to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the people of Honduras. Sends medical missions. Will open a permanent dental clinic in Talanga, Francisco Morazan in 2008. Will need some assistance with the start up of the clinic. |
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Helping Honduras Kids Helping Honduras Kids exists to bring education, opportunity, food, shelter, medical care and a loving family environment to disadvantaged children in Honduras. They work with Children's Village Orphanage and operate a dental clinic in El Pital. |
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Helps International Ministries -- Latin America Missions Project (LAMP) Based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the Latin American Mission Project is part of Helps International Ministries. Work includes community development, disaster relief, and medical clinics. |
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HOMBRE (Honduras Outreach Medical Brigada Relief Effort) HOMBRE, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving the health care available to the rural populations of Honduras. HOMBRE provides an opportunity for health care providers to practice medicine in its purest form while improving the quality of life for hundreds and thousands of Hondurans. |
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Honduran Health Alliance Int'l. alliance of organizations working together in the areas of education, capacity building, health and development. Made up of Las Comunidades Unidas, ASHONPLAFA, Honduran Ministry of Health and UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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Honduran Medical Institute Founded in 1995 to provide medical and surgical care to children in Honduras with cleft lip, cleft palate and other congenital or acquired deformities. The Institute also runs a 3-year plastic surgery training program for Honduran doctors at Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa and provides scholarships. |
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Honduras Baptist Medical Dental Mission Honduras Baptist Medical Dental Mission provides assistance for volunteer mission teams including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, veterinarians and others to poor villages and rural areas of Honduras. In some cases they provide sponsorship of people for surgery in the U.S. that cannot be performed in Honduras. |
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Honduras Medical Mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi The Honduras Medical Mission, made up of volunteers from the Episcopalian Diocese of Mississippi, has for more than 20 years provided medical, dental, and veterinary services for the people of two villages in Honduras. |
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Honduras Outreach, Inc. Honduras Outreach, Inc. (HOI) operates four medical clinics with Honduran medical staff. The main focus of North American involvement in the health and medical program is support of Honduran health professionals. HOI also encourages North American specialists who can help by seeing patients with disorders that are difficult to address in Honduras and by helping to train local medical personnel. |
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Hope for a Healthier Humanity Foundation Hope for a Healthier Humanity actively engages in procuring donations of medications and medical equipment and encourages increased access to educational and training opportunities for healthcare planners and practitioners. An example of one such project is a collaborative effort with the Dental School of the Catholic University of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Through this collaboration HHH sends general and specialist dentists to Honduras multiple times each year, in order that they may teach students and faculty in the Dental School and local area hospitals. |
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Hope for Honduras, Inc. Hope for Honduras medical teams travel to care for the people of Mogote. They are trying to bridge the gap in public health care by providing ongoing basic health care now and by constructing a modern medical clinic for the future. |
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http://www.babyheart.org/ The mission of the International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) is to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to cure and care for children with congenital heart disease to developing countries. They work in a number of countries, and in Honduras work at Instituto Hondureno de Seguro Social in Tegucigalpa. |
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Impact International Impact International, Inc. is Christian missionary organization. It sends missionaries and medical missionaries to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico. |
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International Aid International Aid is a health-focused Christian relief and development organization. Programs include emergency relief, medical equipment services, mission resource center, lab-in-a-suitcase, and the Christian Eye Ministry. Worldwide programs include Honduras. |
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International Health Service International Health Service is a non-profit international relief organization that provides medical assistance to the people of Honduras. Each year IHS sponsors missions to Honduras in February and October. The October trip involves planning for the February team of around 100 people working in general medical, surgical, or dental areas. |
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International Hospital for Children (IHC) The IHC program focuses on surgery and treatment for children of Latin America, with future plans to expand areas of service. They provide critical surgeries for children at IHC Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras. |
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Interplast Interplast is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization that provides free reconstructive plastic surgery for children and adults in developing countries. Honduras is among the countries served. |
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Joint Task Force (JTF) -Bravo Medical Element (MEDEL) In addition to the units' primary tasks, MEDEL also conducts outreach health clinics, surgeries and exercises. For more infomation contact Nilda.Toro@jtfb.southcom.mil |
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La Cima World Missions La Cima is a Christian mission organizaiton that sends medical and dental missions to clinics and hospitals in Honduras. |
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Light of the World Charities Light of the World Charities is an organization made up of volunteers from health and medical fields, who provide health care to the poor and sick of the world. Light of the World Charities works with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in Comayagua, Honduras. |
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Love Truth Care Ministries Christian interfaith group is intent on elevating healthcare in Honduras through teaching, lecturing and performing surgeries at no cost and in partnership with local physicians. |
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Luke Society/Partnership Ministry Teams The Luke Society's Partnership Ministry Teams send 1-2 week medical missions groups to Honduras. They send surgical teams to work in local hospitals and medical/dental teams to work in villages. |
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Medical Ministry International MMI is committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education. They do this by mobilizing volunteers on short-term medical missions and establishing and equipping permanent medical centers. |
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Medical Missions Outreach Medical Mission Outreach is a short-term Christian medical group that provides medical attention and pharmaceutical supplies free of charge to underserved Central and South American areas. They have worked in Honduras and Mexico as well as number of different countries in South America. (09/15/2008 site down) |
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Medical Relief International (MRI) MRI provides dental, medical and humanitarian aid to people in Manila, several locations in Haiti, and numerous locations in Central America(including Honduras). |
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MEDICO: Medical, Eye, and Dental International Care Organization MEDICO (The Medical, Eye & Dental International Care Organization) is an independent humanitarian charitable organization providing basic healthcare to underserved regions of Central America. Volunteers come from the U.S. as well as several foreign countries. MEDICO's services include medical, dental, and optometric care along with community health education, water and sanitation projects, dental fluoride programs, school supply projects, bringing special surgery cases to the U.S. and an Adopt.A.Village program. |
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MedMissions The Christian Medical Society of Honduras (ACMEH) works in partnership with MedMissions to reach under-served areas of Latin America, such as Honduras. They provide health screenings, treatment, health education, and preventative health care such as pap smears. |
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Mending Kids International Mending Kids, International sends medical teams to the poorest communities of the world to help children. Whenever possible they try to assist in establishing medical programs in the foreign countries they visit. If facilities or time constraints prohibit them from performing a complicated surgery, they do their best to have the child airlifted to an American hospital. |
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Merendon Mountain Mission Toby and Amy Hill run a medical clinic in the Merendon Mountains of Honduras. |
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Mission Honduras International Health care is provided at the Mission Honduras Health clinic, serving children, residents, volunteers and employees of APUFRAM, as well as surrounding residents when personnel and resources allow. |
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Mission Honduras LeMars Mission Honduras LeMars is a non-profit organization that helps improve the lives of the people of Honduras. Their first project was the completion of a medical clinic in El Guante. They also are involved in water projects in neighboring villages, and helping with food programs in Sulaco. |
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Missionary Ventures International MVI is a Christian healthcare ministry that sends short term medical missions to countries around the world including Guatemala, Haiti, Belize, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Belize. Volunteers welcome. |
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Missoula Medical Aid Missoula Medical Aid sends two or three teams a year to Honduras. They work in the San Lorenzo hospital, doing everything from medical waste cleanup to surgeries and delivering babies. They have a sister relationship with Save the Children Honduras. |
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Mujeres Amigas Miles Apart (MAMA) Project Honduras The MAMA Project in Honduras centers around health and nutrition work in the countryside surrounding San Francisco de Yojoa. Programs include vitamin and medicine distribution, and de-worming campaigns. |
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New Frontiers Health Force The mission of New Frontiers Health Force is to take primary care medical teams on a short-term basis to underdeveloped nations partnering with different agencies and organizations. The majority of the places teams are sent have little to no health care available. |
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New York Honduras Committee The mission of the New York Honduras Committee is to provide medical care to the underprivileged children of Honduras and make them self reliant and self respecting members of society. Their goal is to sponsor two missions each year, performing orthopedic surgeries in the spring and plastic and dental surgeries in the fall. |
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Northwest Medical Teams International, Inc. Sends over 60 volunteer teams to Central and South America each year. Projects include surgical services, dental services, community health, and construction projects. NMTI works with partners in Guatemala and Honduras. |
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Operation New Life Medical missions by Love Truth Care Ministries. Send teams with maxillofacial, orthopedic and general surgeons to Tegucigalpa. |
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Operation Smile Operation Smile specializes in facial reconstructive surgery. They send an annual mission to San Felipe Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. |
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Paramedics for Children Paramedics For Children is an international humanitarian organization serving the world's poor by providing programs that help save lives, bring hope, and restore dignity. This assistance is provided without regard to people's religious beliefs, gender, or ethnic background. Currently they are working in Honduras, Central America |
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Peace Lutheran Church Peace Church missions have been working in Honduras for over 20 years. Optical and dental treams travel most often. |
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Peacework Peacework Medical Projects has established annual primary care clinics in Honduras, Belize, and Guyana, offering health care to those who would likely otherwise go without. The clinics are two weeks in length and approximately 1500 patients are seen during that period. |
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Physicians Aiding Physicians Abroad (PAPA) PAPA enables health care providers to become actively involved in short-term medical missions. Recent missions have been to Honduras and Zimbabwe. |
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Predisan Predisan is a medical mission to the people of Honduras. Since 1986, Predisan has been providing health care services and education in and around Catacamas. Predisan's work spans nine locations — the Predisan Family Health Center and Good Samaritan Clinic in central Catacamas, two clinics in rural suburbs of Catacamas, five clinics in remote mountain villages, and the CEREPA addiction treatment center in Catacamas. |
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Project Global Village (Proyecto Aldea Global) Project Global Village´s health program, in coordination with Mercy Corps, works in close cooperation with the Honduran government’s health department to provide assistance to special national and regional initiatives. Project Global Village has also constructed and works with local health centers and clinics in training staff to provide better patient attention and service. |
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Project HOPE in Honduras Project HOPE has been active in Honduras since 1982. Past efforts in the region include the development of medical education programs focusing on community health planning; laboratory sciences; nursing; biomedical engineering; community based maternal and child health programming; health facilities management training; renovation; and providing humanitarian assistance. |
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ProPapa Missions America Pro-Papa works with the people of Honduras to relieve their suffering through health, housing, and education. Pro-Papa operates two clinics: one on the north coast, in Uracco, and one in the southern region of Corquin. |
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Reconstructive Surgery Foundation (RSF) Earthspeak EARTHSPEAK works from birth through cleft palate correction by training nurses, midwives, community rehabilitation workers, speech language professionals, parents, and others. It also offers speech camps. Active internationally, including Honduras and Belize. |
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Regnum Christi Misiones Medicas: Manos que alcanzan el Corazon Las misiones requieren del apoyo de los médicos, voluntarios, gente del Regnum Christi y demás personas que brindan sus conocimientos, caridad cristiana y tiempo para sanar cuerpos y almasGracias a la colaboración de aproximadamente 45 médicos extranjeros, 12 médicos mexicanos, 40 voluntarios de Estados Unidos y 80 voluntarios de México, entre los cuales participan enfermeras, estudiantes de medicina, químicos, etc., se pueden contar con éxito las misiones médicas. |
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Rice Foundation Evangelical organization sends medical and surgical missions to Copan area up to 8 times a year. |
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Ruth Paz Foundation/ Ruth Paz Clinic The Ruth Paz foundation provides life-changing medical care and support to underprivileged Honduran children and their families. Brings children to US for surgery, assists in the management and operation of the pediatric neurosurgery unit at the Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital. Runs the Outpatient Clinic “Dr. Luis Bueso Arias” located within the Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital, evaluates the patients to be seen by visiting Medical Teams. Is building a pediatric burn unit Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital at Leonardo Martinez Public Hospital. Operates Ruth Paz Clinic in San Pedro Sula |
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S.M.A.R.T. (Surgical Medical Assistance Relief Teams) Volunteers provide surgical, medical, and dental services to third-world children in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador. |
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Samaritan's Purse--World Medical Mission Under the auspices of Samaritan's Purse, World Medical Mission sends volunteer physicians to Hospital Evangelico, Hospital Bautista, and Hospital Loma de La Luz. Specialists include orthopedics, urology, general surgery, and plastic surgery. |
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Send Hope Send Hope was started by Dr. Tom Brian to help the people on the Moskito Coast of Honuduras. Focus areas include short-term medical, dental, and construction trips, and helping children and families access area hospitals. |
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Serving at the Crossroads Their mission is to gather the resources necessary to build, equip and sustain a medical clinic in the town of La Entrada, ensuring that it has a dependable supply chain of medications and services that will be administered by Honduran medical and dental healthcare practitioners empowered to relieve the pain and suffering of impoverished patients and their families with their help. |
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Shoulder to Shoulder (Hombro a Hombro) Hombro a Hombro is a non-profit NGO legally registered in Honduras since 1998 but operating under the sister U.S. organization Shoulder to Shoulder since 1990. It represents a partnership between the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the City of Cincinnati, the Ministry of Health of Honduras and most importantly, the Community Health Board in Santa Lucia, Intibuca. Shoulder to Shoulder has no administrative overhead, thus allowing for all of the donated funds to be used for supporting the efforts of Hombro a Hombro to care for the needs of the poor in Intibuca. |
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Siempre Unidos (Always United) Siempre Unidos has the mission to provide life-saving outpatient medical treatment, social support, education, and pastoral care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Honduras. Services are open to all without regard to gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation or ability to pay. Clinics are staffed by Honduran physicians and nurses with education and back-up provided by US HIV/AIDS specialists. Social support, nutritional supplementation and pastoral care are provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras. Clinics are in San Pedro Sula, Siguatepeque and Punta Gorda on Rotan. |
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Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos provides support, through social and developmental programs, to the most vulnerable sectors of the Honduran population. The group works to improve the quality of life for destitute children, young people, mothers, families and communities in Honduras. |
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South American Missionary Society (SAMS) SAMS recruits, trains, and sends missionaries to several South American countries. SAMS staffs medical clinics in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. They sponsor short- and long-term missionaries in many countries. |
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This Gracious Work This Gracious Work is dedicated to international projects and groups that help others. They helped fund a medical clinic in La Guacamaya, Honduras. Visiting teams have staffed the clinic but the goal is a self-sustaining, locally run clinic. |
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Timmy Foundation Foundation's mission is to enhance the medical treatment available to children living in poverty in Haiti, Honduras, Dominican Republic,and other countries. Medical and dental mission trips are sent. |
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Un Mundo Un Mundo is a comprehensive development organization equipping volunteers with the skills and tools they need to implement our three-stage development plan designed to promote dignity, community, and self-sufficiency while facilitating access to health care, education, and livable wages in marginalized rural Honduran communities. |
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United Methodist Mission Church in Honduras The Mission has developed ministries in the areas of health which include a Clinic, a Children’s Nutrition Center, connection with Health Centers and local doctors. The Mission also welcome teams of medical professionals to address health issues in the communities of the Methodist congregations. |
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United Methodist Mission Church of Honduras The United Methodist Mission Church of Honduras is made up of 12 congregations in five different areas of Honduras: Tegucigalpa, Danli, Talanga, Subirana, and La Ceibita. Coordinates medical missions to these locations. |
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Vermont Honduras Partnership Vermonters volunteer in Honduras in the areas of education, health, rural development and agriculture, women and families, and others. Health projects include primary care and health training in Tegucigalpa, and a clinic in Lempira targeting at-risk women and adolescents for training in the prevention of STDs, pre-natal care, and more. |
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Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH/International) VOSH volunteers are optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists, and medical personnel in 33 chapters. During the year 2003 VOSH completed more than 90 missions serving over 140,000 people. Missions are from one to two weeks. In addition VOSH has helped establish permanent eye clinics in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico . Their programs provide recycled eyeglasses, treat eye disease and perform eye surgery. |
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Volunteers in Medical Missions (VIMM) VIMM teams take medical care, medication, vitamins, supplies & Christian love and concern to impoverished areas of the world. Teams travel to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. |
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Washington Overseas Mission The Washington Overseas Mission is a humanitarian aid organization that has been sending medical, dental and construction teams to Honduras and Central America for more than 10 years. Based in the small town of Washington Missouri, their volunteers have helped to improve the lives and health of over 100,000 people in this region of Central America. |
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Westside Ministries Westside Ministries sends medical and dental brigades to the area surrounding their training center in Lizapa, Honduras. |
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World Surgical Foundation WSF has sponsored yearly surgical missions. They typically complete 25-40 surgeries a day during a ten-day mission, including an annual mission to Honduras. WSF also assists medical facilities worldwide fulfilling requests for items and/or mission workers to provide surgical care. They have supported facilities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya and Russia. |
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Worldwide Heart to Heart Ministries Worldwide Heart to Heart Ministries is a non-profit group working inter-denominationally. They are incorporated in the U.S. and Honduras. Medical teams travel to Puerto Cortes and Tegucigalpita. |