About the Foundation

OUR MISSION

We are dedicated to fostering the expansion and quality of rehabilitation services for the benefit of physically disabled adults and children in Haiti. We operate on the principle that the best way to serve the people of Haiti is to enable them to serve themselves. We do this through the following 4 points of emphasis:

• Rehabilitation education
• Clinical treatment
• Disability prevention
• Increasing public awareness of disabilities and rehabilitation in Haiti

OUR VISION

To provide treatment, physical and occupational rehabilitation, and education to the people of Haiti. Our goals include: heightening the public awareness of physical disability issues (including prevention, acceptance, and care); educating the people of Haiti to care for the disabled with skill, dignity, and respect; and providing continued support with training, materials, supplies, medical treatment, and therapy. Healing Hands for Haiti encourages our patients to pay for services if they are able, however, no individual will be turned away for lack of funds.

Here are some of the courses we currently offer or will be offering:

• A 1-week orphanage basic care giver school (since 1998)
• A 9-month rehabilitation functional therapy program (since 2000)
• School awareness program (since 2002)
• Preventative and Public Health Program (since 2003)
• School reintegration program (since 2003)
• Continuing medical education program (since 2003)

For more information about our educational program, please visit our Education page.

OUR VALUES

1. Healing Hands for Haiti is a non-profit, 501(c)3, non-governmental organization.
2. Healing Hands for Haiti neither condemns nor promotes any political organization, or any religious ideology. We are a non-political organization, which is not affiliated with either the U.S. or Haitian governments. We will work in cooperation with governments when our mutual goals are for the benefit of the Haitian people.
3. Healing Hands for Haiti works with multi-denominational churches, charitable organizations, and other public and private organizations.
4. Healing Hands for Haiti promotes and encourages the Haitian people to provide quality physical rehabilitative services themselves in a spirit of self-determination, non-dependency, and human dignity with a focus on empowering disabled Haitians to achieve functional independence.