Founded in 1991, Project World Health provided medical supplies and assisted on service trips to underserved populations in Colombia, Haiti, Honduras, and Cuba. In 2000, PWH took its first trip to Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic. This first trip only included a handful of students, one physician, and one nurse. Over the last 22 years, over 900 students have gone on PWH medical outreach trips to Jarabacoa. The size of the group has grown from just 13 on the first trip to Cuba, to peaking at over 100 students, nurses, and physicians on the 2019 Jarabacoa trip.
In 2020, the pandemic prevented us from physically traveling to Jarabacoa and running clinics, but it did not stop our impact. After the abrupt cancellation of the trip, medical students ran a dental care drive and collected over 1000 toothbrushes and 200 tubes of toothpaste that were shipped to Jarabacoa. In 2021, Project World Health shipped 10 large boxes of supplies to Jarabacoa containing: $10,000 worth of medications, 1292 toothbrushes, 142 boxes of PPE (face masks/shields, gowns, gloves, disinfectant) and 5 pulse oximeters. After navigating the challenges posed by the global pandemic, we were thrilled and immensely grateful to announce our return to Jarabacoa in 2023.
We have since returned to Jarabacoa in 2024, and our next trip will be in March 2025.
