Medical Outreach In The Dominican Republic

Karen Conquergood (with back turned) performing an exam at the eye clinic.

Some of the poorest people in the world live in parts of the Dominican Republic. There are areas where Haitian natives entered the country to provide manual labor for the sugar plantations. But when those plantations were abandoned, these workers were left stranded. They weren't eligible to receive DR's safety net services, and without jobs, many struggle just to survive.

When your struggle is for life's basic needs, you can't even afford the luxury of proper health care services. That's where DOMINICAN EYES PLUS enters the picture. Karen Conquergood, who comes from Canada, operates the organization. She has served the Dominican poor for more than 25 years, providing vital health care services.



Dominican Eyes Plus provides goods and services to the poorest of the poor such as:

*  Free eye examinations and free eye glasses

*  Food packages, gifts, and medical supplies to those with no means of travel

*  ...transportation to Hospitals and connect them with Surgeons

*  ...inexpensive locally made artificial limbs [from the Foundation's goals].

In addition, this organization supports health care providers with an ear to listen and broad shoulders to help share the sorrow and joy, helps those who are lost and hopeless, provides cultural immersion for missions to this community, and, most of all, works from people to people.

Ms. Conquegood supplying a local blind man with food.

Everything that Dominican Eyes does proceeds from basic survival needs. That's why the services go beyond just working with eye issues.  The group survives on donations; they accept monetary donations and those of needed supplies. Several professional groups donate such equipment as eyeglasses, and also send health care professionals, who donate their services in providing care to those in need. This is one organization that uses every donation, no matter what size, to serve these, the poorest of the poor.

Ms/ Conquergood distributing gifts to orphans.

Thanks to this Pollination Project article: https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/karen-conquergood-medical-outreach-clinics-dominican-republic/; and the above link.

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