My Medical Mission Trip to Haiti
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Hello everyone! I am starting this campaign to raise funds to participate in a medical mission trip to Haiti in mid-April, along with my colleagues here at Thomas Jefferson University - Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. It has been a longtime dream of mine to be involved in something this worthwhile, and about which I am very passionate. I have spent close to 20 years caring for patients who have been afflicted with some form of head and neck cancer, and have chosen to share my skills, compassion, and expertise with those who are not in a postion to help themselves.
A few of the Head and Neck surgeons in our Department started a campaign two years ago called the Complex Head and Neck Care and Education (CHANCE) Mission. This mission is focused on providing care to those persons in Haiti who suffer from various head and neck disorders who are unable to travel to Philadelphia for top-ranked care, and who do not have access to the surgical expertise, funds, or other resources needed to get the care they need. Our surgeons have partnered with Haitian doctors at Hospital Lumiere in Bonne Finne and St. Lukes Hospital in Port-Au-Prince to provide care, hope and a CHANCE to the Haitian population.
I have been given the opportunity to share in the next week-long mission trip this April. I will be travelling with my colleague, Dr. Adam Luginbuhl, as well as other trained surgeons and health care providers, to assist in this very important cause. To learn more about who we are, why we go, and how you can help, please visit the following link: http://advancement.jefferson.edu/s/1399/index.aspx?sid=1399&gid=1&sitebuilder=1&pgid=2232
Any funds raised in excess of what is needed to cover the cost of my flight, transportation, and lodging will go toward offsetting costs for the patients we help. There is no health insurance in this impoverished country. Even though we volunteer our services, the patients will still incur charges from the hospital with no way for them or their family to cover these costs.
Doctors and nurses from Jefferson have already improved the lives of more than 150 Haitians through the CHANCE mission. We need your support to help that number grow.
THANK YOU for taking the time to read this, and for considering making a donation to support our mission. No donation is too small!
- Tara
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." Mother Teresa
A few of the Head and Neck surgeons in our Department started a campaign two years ago called the Complex Head and Neck Care and Education (CHANCE) Mission. This mission is focused on providing care to those persons in Haiti who suffer from various head and neck disorders who are unable to travel to Philadelphia for top-ranked care, and who do not have access to the surgical expertise, funds, or other resources needed to get the care they need. Our surgeons have partnered with Haitian doctors at Hospital Lumiere in Bonne Finne and St. Lukes Hospital in Port-Au-Prince to provide care, hope and a CHANCE to the Haitian population.
I have been given the opportunity to share in the next week-long mission trip this April. I will be travelling with my colleague, Dr. Adam Luginbuhl, as well as other trained surgeons and health care providers, to assist in this very important cause. To learn more about who we are, why we go, and how you can help, please visit the following link: http://advancement.jefferson.edu/s/1399/index.aspx?sid=1399&gid=1&sitebuilder=1&pgid=2232
Any funds raised in excess of what is needed to cover the cost of my flight, transportation, and lodging will go toward offsetting costs for the patients we help. There is no health insurance in this impoverished country. Even though we volunteer our services, the patients will still incur charges from the hospital with no way for them or their family to cover these costs.
Doctors and nurses from Jefferson have already improved the lives of more than 150 Haitians through the CHANCE mission. We need your support to help that number grow.
THANK YOU for taking the time to read this, and for considering making a donation to support our mission. No donation is too small!
- Tara
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." Mother Teresa
Organizer
Tara DiFabio
Organizer
Morrisville, PA