Mission Direct - Volunteers helping the world's poor
Mission Mobility
Mission Mobility
Mission Direct volunteers often stay in touch with the people they meet on trips, and sometimes they send them small gifts after they have returned home.
Volunteer Joanne Gilman made a larger gift: a brand new wheelchair which was delivered to a small shack in the Domincan Republic from the UK.
She met Iaena Alexi in 2009 in Chichigua, a tiny village on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Iaena, suffers from Cerebral Palsy and lives with her mother and six sisters. The family live in a shack made of oil cans that leak and fill with water.
Returning to Britain, Joanne set about buying a wheelchair suitable for Iaena, but had to wait for it to be delivered. Finally, in July, the first team of 2010 were able to deliver it to the family’s home.
“Iaena’s joy will stay with me for the rest of my life.” Said Nigel Hyde, Mission Direct’s Chief Executive who handed the wheelchair over to the family “Acts of generosity like this happen all the time on mission trips: volunteers see the everyday needs of the world’s poorest people and often they realise that they can actually do something about it.”
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All About Mission Direct
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.
Choose a country and find the trip that is right for you by clicking below to see all the options :
Call Jackie Johnston in the Luton office
8.30am - 5.30pm
Mon - Fri
to apply or find out more.
t: 01582 72 00 56