Haiti Medical Mission: Make a Difference
Every year, a team of 15-doctors and nurses from the Fargo-Moorhead area travels to the mountain region of Pignon, Haiti.
The medical team performs life changing operations on children suffering cleft-lip and palate deformities, and life threatening burns. For more information on how you can help give a child a smile, download the give a smile brochure and/or send donations to:
F-M Haiti Medical Mission
PO Box 188
Moorhead, MN 56561
Who We Are
Every year, a team of doctors, nurses, anesthetists and other healthcare professionals travel to the mountain village of Pignon, Haiti. The team works out of the 'Comite de Beinfaisance de Pignon', a hospital started by a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Dr. Guy Theodore, who himself is a native of Haiti. The hospital serves the poor. The village has dirt roads, no power and little running water.For one week every January, the team travels to Pignon to perform over forty major surgeries for the native people of Haiti. People from all over the country come and line up to see if the team can help them. Each fall, in preparation for the trip, the medical team collects and packs recycled but quality surgical equipment and operating room materials from various Fargo-Moorhead healthcare facilities.
Our Mission Statement
We want to share our medical skills and resources with the local doctors and medical staff of Pignon, to improve the lives and health care for the people there.His name is Jacksees. A ten-year old boy who looked six. A cleft lip and palate meant ridicule from family and friends. In fact, he had never even been to school because of his deformity. When the Haiti Medical Mission of Fargo-Moorhead performed a life-changing operation on Jacksees, they watched the boy's "jaw drop" as he looked in the mirror and saw a new face looking back at him for the first time.
That's what the Mission is all about - changing lives.
The 2008 Team
