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Determined to Reach the Most Remote Communities

With a white ambulance to one side, a man in blue T-shirt and cap leads a mule loaded with supplies and carrying a woman in blue T-shirt. Local residents look on, smiling.

In the year following the devastating August 14, 2021 earthquake, HEI/SBH fielded five mobile clinic teams across Haiti’s southern peninsula and supported four damaged health facilities.

The slideshow below tells the story of one of these teams on one day in March 2022.

This mobile clinic team, based in the small town of Petit Trou de Nippes, was scheduled to provide care in the remote mountain community of Nan Paul, just miles from the epicenter of the deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Knowing that the vast majority of rural residents cannot afford to travel to a health center, the mobile clinic team was determined to bring health care to them. And thanks to the generosity and partnership of community members, they were successful in their mission.

A white 4x4 vehicle marked “ambulance” is parked at the bottom of a steep, rocky hill while 2 men in blue T-shirts shift boulders.

After driving an hour from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, our mobile clinic team finds that their four-wheel-drive vehicle cannot go any farther.

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