By Jennifer Browning Kim Barnard volunteered at Hospital Bernard Mevs in June, since then she has joined fellow volunteers in raising money to assist Project Medishare in raising funds to keep the only critical care hospital in Haiti open for business. Musician friends of hers from Kickstart,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning On May 22, the City of Miami Beach hosted Rock for Haiti which raised money to outfit and repair two surplus emergency medical vehicles which the Miami Beach Mayor and Commission donated to Bernard Mevs Project Medishare Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The ambulances are now...
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Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Project Medishare co-founder and president, Dr. Barth A. Green, will receive the Lawton’s Heart Humanitarian Award for his lifetime devotion to humanitarian causes from the Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations (FANO). The award will be presented by Miller School Dean Pascal J....
Read MoreBy Dr. Tisha Titus* We arrived in Haiti six months to the day after the 2010 earthquake, not quite knowing what to expect the conditions in Port-au-Prince to be. Would we be safe in transit? Would the roads taking us out of the city be blocked...
Read MoreFeaturing some of the brightest stars in music, ‘Revival’ is a new offering from Rhythms Del Mundo (RDM) in partnership with the widely-respected Artists Project Earth (APE), a UK NGO focusing on disaster relief and climate change awareness. With each of the tracks given the...
Read MoreBy P.J. Pitts It's funny how we sometimes end up exactly where we're supposed to be, even if we don't know we're supposed to be there. The other day while sitting in the logistics office, waiting for my caffeine to set in, and ...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning After turning off of National Road #3, the SUVs tossed, tumbled and slid across the mud caked roads saturated after the downpour the previous night. [caption id="attachment_1943" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Traveling to the mobile clinic location this morning, the lead SUV with all the medications...
Read More[caption id="attachment_1928" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Bande Mangaliso Virgil, a pediatric resident from Morehouse School of Medicine, examines a patient in a pediatric clinic in a small school in Marmont. This week as part of Project Medishare's University Partnership Program, doctors, medical and MPH students are volunteering...
Read More[caption id="attachment_1934" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Monday Wyclef Jean and Yéle Haiti donated $500,000 to Project Medishare. The money will go to purchase a CT Scanner for the Bernard Mevs Project Medishare Hospital. Photo by Jennifer Browning."][/caption] By Jennifer Browning Yéle Haiti announced Monday that they are providing a...
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