By Jennifer Browning Project Medishare co-founder Dr. Arthur Fournier discusses cholera in Haiti in the Miami-Herald this week. Dr. Fournier talks about how cholera is not another curse that Haiti must endure, but another consequence of man. "Errors of omission and commission not just exacerbated the epidemic but...
Read MoreProject Medishare volunteers in Raleigh, NC are offering an evening of wine and Caribbean food tasting at “Live From Haiti…..It’s Saturday Night,” a fundraising event to benefit Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare on Saturday, January 8. Guests will have the opportunity to meet a few of...
Read MoreWhen Project Medishare community health agents met 16-year-old Ninitte at a local event in Casse last year, she was severely thin and complaining of pain in her chest. [caption id="attachment_1785" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Ninite (second from the left) with her brothers and sisters at their home in...
Read More[caption id="attachment_2375" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Wilfred Messine works for Project Medishare today as a prosthetic technician in training and provides hope to other amputee patients. Photo by Omar Vega."][/caption] When Wilfred Messine was fitted with his prosthetic limb in April, he immediately began running and kicking a...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZiUhsxxJc&fs=1&hl=en_US] Our local medical staff and volunteers, along with some of the people we serve would like to send you happy holiday greetings. To view their message click on the video above or click here. Thank you for all you've already done and, in advance, for all...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning You may have remembered reading on the Project Medishare Blog about how 9-month old Julisa was toddling across her house and stumbled into a pot of boiling water causing serious burns on her right arm and left hand. As her burns healed...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning On Friday, Dec. 10 Herold Charles was honored with a TeenNick HALO Award for his valiant effort to help people find loved ones after the Haiti earthquake. TeenNick awarded Herold with $20,000. Half would go towards his education and the other $10,000 would go...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning The final pieces are being put in place to finalize the Akamil Production Facility in Thomonde. Ground breaking began June 2007 for the construction of the facility, but construction and final equipment installment was delayed after the January 12 earthquake. When production begins,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Last week the Associate Press reported that while many feared Haiti's growing epidemic would overwhelm the capital, so far, rural Haiti is seeing the worst of this epidemic that has killed over 1,900 people in less than two months. [caption id=""...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHAuTF_PwuQ&fs=1&hl=en_US] By Jennifer Browning Give the gift of Caribbean beats when you give 'Revival' produced by Rhythms Del Mundo (RDM) in partnership with Artists Project Earth (APE), a British NGO focusing on disaster relief and climate awareness. With each of the tracks given the trademark RDM Afro-Cuban...
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