Missions of Love began as a medical mission that used medicine to bring people to know Christ. Over the years, Missions of Love has expanded beyond our Medical Clinic to include an Eye and Ear Clinic, Safe Water Program, Children's Band and Choir as well as many more. We are continually growing and spreading the good news to everyone who will listen.

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Eye and Ear Clinic

The Eye/Ear Clinic is a ministry dedicated to providing low cost or free eye exams and care and eye wear to the poor of Haiti. Operating year-around with Haitians trained in the techniques of optometry and optical dispensing, the clinic provides simple medical attention and refractions at far less cost than available in the market place.

Single-vision glasses are fabricated on-site and bi-focal glasses are not possible at this time due to the high cost of a surface grinder for lenses. They were being made by friends in the US who had optical labs but the volume and need was too great. The optical industry is having a hard time these days due to out-sourcing of all the lens manufacturing to Far Eastern nations. This is also making it hard for us to get lens blanks because we used to get the rejected but still usable lenses. Now they are thrown out overseas and not shipped back. Costs are contained through donated lenses, frames and sunglasses.

The ear portion of the clinic provides simple care for ear disease and evaluation of hearing loss. A lab for preparing hearing aid molds is in place and a program of supplying hearing aids to the deaf is evolving.

Julia Roskamp, of Clinic Jolivert and ComCare International, heads up this program and the training for it. She travels to the deaf schools throughout Haiti and checks hearing in school children in mainstream schools. Due to turnover in personnel we are in the process of training new Haitian personnel to do these jobs.

 

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