[caption id="attachment_1913" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Bernard Mevs nurse, Sindy Abdon, goes over a patient chart with Dr. Eric Dehoux, a physician volunteering from Canada. While volunteering over the next two weeks, Dr. Dehoux is working with doctors and nurses in the medical surgical unit to...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning “Dousma madame, dousma,..” Sammie Jean Charles tells a patient to go slowly as she moves her leg backwards and starts to feel the resistance from the band. Sammie, a physical therapy tech in training, is working with Roslyn Gillen, an occupational therapist volunteering this...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning At 13, Amos spends his summer vacation working to help support his family. At sunrise, he goes down to the river, collects the sand on the bottom, places it in large buckets and then carries it to a central location. [caption id="attachment_1906" align="alignleft" width="300"...
Read MoreHannah Friesen from Austin, Texas goes through stretching and strength exercises with a spinal cord injury patient. Each morning the therapist go to the spinal cord unit, to get the patients out of bed and start their physical therapy. Friesen is volunteering for a month...
Read More[caption id="attachment_1882" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="PICU nurse Robyn Candell demonstrates to Bazile Marie Uvonne how to use a feeding tube with one of their tiny patients. Photo by Jennifer Browning."][/caption] By Jennifer Browning As part of the partnership with Bernard Mevs Hospital and their local staff, Project...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning If you have been to the Project Medishare website, you may have noticed a different look and a few images missing. Over this weekend, Project Medishare.org is going through a major face lift and moving to a new server. As this happens Project...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhoQ-8jSuM&hl=en_US&fs=1] By Jennifer Browning While some will be basking in the sun by their barbecue grills or lining up their fireworks on Sunday for Fourth of July celebrations, Emory Medishare, in partnership with Project Medishare will be arriving in Hinche, Haiti in the Central Plateau to begin...
Read MoreBy Nayla Khoury* Rosanna stood in the middle of a circle of benches, outside of Medishare’s compound in Casse; her hands were raised and waving. She was speaking about Jesus and to no one in particular. I asked Wilfred, our newly trained interpreter, to translate for...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning In an effort to promote forward giving Chase Community Giving is giving away another $5 million. Project Medishare supporters can vote to help put our organization in the top 200 charities in the running to help us a receive donation from Chase Community...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Students from Emory University have been working with Project Medishare staff in Haiti’s Central Plateau this summer trying to understand how mental health is understood in rural Haiti. The students hope that this is the first of many trips to work toward improving...
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