Dear Collaborators,
2021 has been difficult and challenging for many people around the world. Many goals have been dropped or quarantined, and many dreams broken by the global health crisis of Covid-19. The Coronavirus pandemic has shown us a new world; one where the status quo no longer exists.
Dr. Jacques and Healing Art Missions team inventorying and distributing medical supplies.
As Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, stated, “The world has seen many crises over the past 30 years, including the global financial of 2007-09. Each has hit human development hard but, overall, development gains accrued globally year-on-year. Covid-19, with its triple hit to health, education and income may change this trend.”
In Haiti, the increase in kidnapping targeting in particular medical professionals, general insecurity, the low rate of anti-covid vaccination (0.63% of the population according to Ministry of Health), the gangsterization of neighborhoods given access to basic services, and the inflation rate at 26.3% complicate the daily life of Haitians even more.
Attending the injured, part of the response effort to the earthquakes.
At Healing Art Missions, we can say we are lucky and God has protected us so far from the tragic consequences of Covid-19 and the waves of kidnappings and insecurity in Haiti and perhaps our positive impacts, our reputation, our attitude towards others and above all our way of treating our beneficiaries have served as a protective shield for our staff. In fact OUR model has been very popular and appreciated in the medical response to the recent earthquake in Les Cayes and the Nippes.
On my own behalf and on behalf of all the members of the Healing Art Missions family, I thank you very much for your continued support to the Haitian people.
My wishes for 2022 are to continue to work together and as a team to positively impact the world and support people in great need in Haiti.
Dr Jean Fritz Jacques, MD, MBA, CEO Medical Director, HAM