Village Partners International is pleased to incorporate Kindness Matters as one of our new missions. This outreach to the homeless in the Tampa Bay area grew out of a need seen by Team 211, a team training for breast cancer awareness walks. The majority of the teams’ members had walked this journey of breast cancer, […]
During a public meeting in March 2016, the community of Mombin Crochu in North East Haiti issued a desperate plea for help to VPI. Twenty-six children in the region had died within the year from severe malnutrition. Hurricane Matthew and chronic drought had severely reduced local agricultural food production. Simultaneously, eleven USAID nutrition centers in […]
The maternal mortality rate in Uganda stands at 438/100,000 births, most due to the lack of prenatal care or delivery outside of a healthcare facility. Realizing the lack of such a facility in Papoli, Uganda, VPI began raising funds to build a clinic where safe delivery of children could occur, and pre-natal care could be […]
Medicine for Miracles was created as a pilot program in 2016 to bridge the gap between the poorest community members in Papoli, Uganda and the Robert H. Cooley Pediatric Clinic’s inability to distribute medicines free of charge to those in dire need. The goal was to provide worming for malnourished children and malaria medications for […]
CLEAN WATER: WATER IS LIFE The fall of 2016 brought significant drought to the mountains of NE Haiti. During this time, crops failed and the incidence of malnutrition rose significantly, especially in children. In addition, the access to clean water was found to be acutely lacking. As a result a proliferation of waterborne disease such as […]
In late 1999 an email was sent to Dr. Sylvia Campbell by a young girl in Uganda, Martha Ofumbi, in hope of finding SOMEONE who could help her. Along with meeting the immediate need of repairing her heart, this contact was the beginning of a friendship between the people of Papoli, Uganda and Tampa, Florida. […]
The seventh graders of St. Mary’s Episcopal Day School in Tampa, Florida, invite other schools and organizations to join them in leading a Pennies for Papoli Drive. The drive has two purposes. One is to provide a way for children to become involved in helping other children while educating a wider community about the needs […]
Moringa oleifera is a tree, also known as “the miracle tree” for its ability to offer nutritious food, clean water, and medicine. Moringa is easily propagated and it has the ability to thrive under difficult conditions, making it an ideal tree to be grown in Haiti. Given the anecdotal evidence of moringa combined with the […]
Moringa oleifera is a tree, also known as “the miracle tree” for its ability to offer nutritious food, clean water, and medicine. Moringa is easily propagated and it has the ability to thrive under difficult conditions, making it an ideal tree to be grown Uganda. Given the anecdotal evidence of moringa combined with the superior […]
THE MOBILE CLINIC: A SAFETY NET Lack of safe roads and transportation in the mountains of rural Haiti has made access to health care impossible for many living here. For this reason, VPI has sponsored a Mobile Clinic since 2015, which travels to the alternating remote areas twice monthly. Here medical care, vaccinations, medications, screening […]
