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 […]