Dominican Republic

Since 1996 Project HOPE has collaborated with the local non-governmental organization (NGO) Order of Malta to improve the health of women and children in the Dominican Republic. In 2002 the partnership began operating a maternal and child health clinic in Santo Domingo.

Self-sustainable within a year, the clinic became the model for a second clinic in Monte Plata which is now also self-sustainable. Now run by a local partner, the clinics continue to receive technical oversight from Project HOPE to optimize efficiency, providing more than 1 million services to over 80,000 women & children to date.

Project HOPE's history in the Dominican Republic also includes village health bank programs combining micro-lending with health education, HIV/AIDS education and counseling, immunization programs and humanitarian assistance.

In 2004 in response to devastating floods Project HOPE sent $1.2 million in medicines and medical supplies to the Dominican Republic. Also that year HOPE donated 300,000 doses of childhood vaccines in support of a nationwide to immunize every child. In 2006 another shipment of vaccines worth $3 million were sent to the Ministry of Health for a nationwide vaccination campaign.

Participating in the 2008 and 2009 United States Navy's Continuing Promise humanitarian missions Project HOPE medical volunteers from around the U.S. joined their military counterparts to provide medical care to the people of the Dominican Republic.

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