Support Olivia's Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic

Hello! My name is Olivia and I am a nurse at RUSH. I have the privilege of attending a medical service trip to provide primary care for residents of the Dominican Republic. Community Empowerment is the local organization that hosts us and handles all logistics. Their mission is to save lives and protect health by providing access to quality, community-owned, sustainable health care including primary care, surgical care, and public health in chronically underserved and under-resourced communities in the Dominican Republic & Haiti. Community Empowerment works in tandem with local leadership to provide essential health care, while creating a self-sustaining system in which our assistance is no longer needed. Primary care teams, in partnership with local medical trainees, work to provide medical consultations, training, and chronic disease management. Primary care includes Audiology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, as well as Dentistry and Physical Therapy.

If you are interested in learning more about our work and the on-going community development of Community Empowerment, please visit: community-empowerment.org

Donations on this page will help me afford to pay for my airfare and trip fees (food, lodging, ground transportation) and if I receive extra money I will pass it along to Community Empowerment to support long term community development, health systems strengthening (electronic medical records system, medical supplies and warehouse) and water and sanitation projects in the local community.

Donations made on Go Fund Me are a gift to me and therefore are not tax deductible. If you want to make a tax- deductible donation to the Community Empowerment visit community-empowerment.org