Clinic Opening – First Week Update

I wanted to give you a little update about our clinic opening on the 28th of August. There were over 100 people waiting for us when we arrived at the little house where we were to hold the clinic. We took in all our supplies and medications and got all set up, then greeted everyone…

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March 2007 Newsletter

The following post begins our March 2007 newsletter. Greetings from Gatineau, Haiti A young Haitian man from a village near Gatineau was cut with a machete while working in his fields a few weeks ago. The next day he began having spasms in his muscles and by the following day he was dead. The cause…

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Public Health Corner March 2007

One of the things that is very important to us in terms of the sustainability of our work here in Haiti has to do with community participation. When the local community participates in the development of a project, both in terms of planning and implementation, the project is more likely to succeed over the long…

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Public Health Corner October 2006

One of the things that is very important to the success and long-term sustainability of this project is community involvement.  Those of you who have spent time in Haiti know how difficult it is to get Haitian communities to organize themselves to accomplish a task.  They don’t trust one another and don’t often like to…

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