Barco’s Nightingales has partnered with Hispaniola Mountain Ministries (HMM) to build solar wells and bring clean water to thousands of people in Haiti. In addition, through HMM, we provide hot lunches for 540 children who attend a school where one of our water wells is located.
Yet, this is only part HMM’s mission.  HMM also sponsors medical missions that bring dental and medical care to those in need.

Several times each year, volunteer doctors, nurses and dentists from all over the United States, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, go into remote mountain villages and care for the villagers.  According to Phil Little of HMM, most of the Haitian people have high blood pressure and suffer from severe tooth and gum disease due to malnutrition.  He added that many chew sugar cane as a source of energy, which also contributes to the dental issues.

HMM’s volunteer medical teams operate in remote villages under a well-equipped and air conditioned medical tent with supplies for immunizations and basic medical and dental care.  The volunteers fly in to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and travel by bus into Haiti.  Once there, the work is continuous as the need is so great.

As one volunteer wrote in her blog, “There were elderly people and mothers concerned for their babies, but they all waited so patiently, and they were so grateful.”  In every account written by doctors and nurses who have volunteered with HMM, is the same statement, “I cannot wait until I can go back”.