Welcome
Team Canada Healing Hands Inc is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the provision of rehabilitative education, training, and care in areas of need.
L’Equipe Canadienne – Healing Hands Inc. est une organisation à but non-lucratif dédiée à subvenir à l’éducation et l’entraînement en réadaptation ainsi qu’à administrer des soins dans les endroits qui en ont le plus besoin.
Haiti Earthquake Response and Priorities
HHH and TCHH have committed to facilitate the deployment of rehabilitation professionals over the next year, to both assist in staffing the Kay Kapab clinic and Prosthetics and Orthotics facility, and other rehabilitation facilities that have expressed needs. These include the Project Medishare tent hospital/rehabilitation tent, St. Boniface Hospital in Fonds des Blanc which has admitted many spinal cord injured patients, and other facilities as identified by Handicap International.
Our immediate priorities remain:
- re-establishment and provision of rehabilitation training opportunities for Haitian health and community workers,
- reconstruction and operation of our outpatient rehabilitation and P&O clinic while continuing to staff our temporary facility, and
- continuing with the HiPOE initiative, which has now been expanded due to the number of persons with amputations following the earthquake.
For the longer term, we remain committed to the construction of a permanent Rehabilitation Institute, with capacity for both inpatient and outpatient care as well as training.
Over 100 rehabilitation volunteers from Canada and USA are already scheduled over the next 3 months, and a coordinator will work to facilitate scheduling to ensure we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
All funds raised through recent earthquake responses will be dedicated to the priorities outlined above.
We sincerely thank all of our supporters who have helped us to make these important initiatives move forward.
For the most current news of the response to the Haiti earthquake disaster see One Response:Haiti and TCHH News.
We continue to gather names of potential volunteers here.