Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti
Milwaukee Friends….
Come to Culver’s Restaurant at 575 Layton Avenue in Milwaukee on Monday, March 28th between 5-7pm. 10% of all sales during that time will be donated to Friends for Health in Haiti!
Read MoreRoad Trips and Politics
As many of you may know, we are in the middle of a 3-year project to improve and pave the road between Cayes, on the southern coast and Jérémie, on the northern coast of the southern peninsula of Haiti. We’ve traveled on the “new” road several times in the past few months and each time…
Read MoreNational Day of Mourning
January 12, 2011, the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that occurred in Haiti, is a national day of mourning in the country. Over 200,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were injured that day. 1.5 million were left homeless, the majority of whom are still living in temporary shelters and tents in Port-au-Prince and…
Read MoreWhatever Happened To The Clothes????
As some of you may know, last spring we sent out an appeal to the churches in the New Brunswick, NJ Presbytery for used clothes and shoes to be sent to Haiti. We were packing up some drums with backpacks that had been donated by high school students in Wisconsin and wanted some clothes to…
Read MoreMurder Investigation Update
This update refers to my previous blog from December 9th. Yesterday we met with the local government leader who works in the area where the three murders occurred. He said that Thursday night, he was called to investigate the situation and he interviewed several people and summoned the commissioner, or highest government lawyer in Jeremie,…
Read MoreCholera and Vigilante Justice
Today was a day I’ll not forget for a long time – a day where rumor became reality and justice seems like a nonexistent dream. Let me first give you some background. Over the past two weeks, there have been reports of cholera cases here in the Jeremie area, but it has been difficult to…
Read MoreHurricane Aftermath
We were able to drive up to our clinic on Tuesday this week, finding the road very slippery and gutted out, but passable. We had to put our jeep into 4-wheel drive “low” position, that gives the most power, so we could make it up some of the steep, slippery hills. Our patients were grateful…
Read MoreCholera reaches Port-au-Prince
The cholera epidemic has now reached Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian government health officials. Over 70 cases have been identified in people who live in Port-au-Prince, but contracted the disease while visiting outside the capital. Several cases have been reported in patients who have not left the capital city, which means that it was acquired there,…
Read MoreThe storm is passing!
As I write this blog (2:00pm CT on Friday, November 5th), the worst of Hurricane Tomas seems to be over. Warnings about the storm had been disseminated throughout the country all week and we watched the storm’s path on the internet several times a day. Around midnight last night, heavy rains and fierce winds began,…
Read MoreCholera in Haiti!!!
I’m sure you are all aware from the news channels that there has been an outbreak of cholera in Haiti. Cholera is a very deadly disease, causing severe diarrhea that leads quickly to dehydration and death. This is the first time it has been reported in Haiti and is a very serious situation on top…
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