Medical Brigade 2025
Brigade Dates: July 16-23, 2025
We have been taking short-term primary care medical brigades to the El Paraiso region of Honduras since 1999. When in Honduras, our volunteers reflect the face of Christ in our work and in our relationships with the Hondurans. We begin and end each clinic with prayer, and our spirit is fed as we see God’s hand in our work.
TYPES OF VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We need doctors, nurses, APNs, PAs, med techs and nurse assistants, dentists and pharmacists. Pediatricians or those with pediatric experience would be especially helpful. We always need Spanish speaking interpreters, clergy to minister to those who come to our clinics, and non-medical personnel to help with logistics. You may be assigned to pack medication, work in the pharmacy, play with the children, assist the dentists, help dispense reading glasses, do crowd control, or help with educational projects. We really need folks with skills in driving four-wheel drive, manual transmission pickup trucks over potentially challenging roads! Non-healthcare workers need not worry about “not being needed.” All that is absolutely required is a willing heart.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The medical mission trip is 8 days: 2 travel days: we will fly in and out of Dallas on American Airlines to Comayagua, 5 days of clinics and 1 free day. We stay in a safe, walled retreat center, with safe foods prepared by the nuns who run the retreat center. We travel by 4 wheel drive trucks and buses to surrounding mountain side villages daily and provide basic medical and dental care to the local villagers. We carry a full pharmacy with us and do simple lab tests such as urine and finger stick glucose. We are joined by several Honduran doctors, dentists and college age bilingual translators. Our days are full, and both those we serve and we ourselves are blessed by the experience.
This opportunity to serve in Honduras is also an opportunity for you to fund-raise for HGW so we can provide room and board for our Honduran volunteers. The minimum fee for your trip is $2100, but we encourage everyone to strive to fundraise/donate $3000 per missioner. If you donate the full $3000, you will be guaranteed a private room and a checked piece of luggage, if needed. We can provide you with a fund-raising page. The first $1000 payment is due no later than April 10, 2025, and the final payment by June 1st.
** There is always an incidence of Zika in Honduras, and so we recommend if you are pregnant or considering becoming pregnant soon, that you forgo this trip.