By Jennifer Browning Between now and midnight, each new person who joins iGive using this link right here and does just one web search on the iGive site Project Medishare will receive a dollar. [caption id="attachment_922" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Join iGive between today and noon tomorrow, conduct one...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Two grants approved by the World Bank Board of Directors totalling $24.5 million will go to support Haiti's economic governance reform agenda and rehabilitation of key roads and bridges. The first grant for the Third Economic Governance Reform Operation (EGRO III) for $12.5 million...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning From now until December 11, each time you give $25 or more to Project Medishare, a holiday greeting will be mailed to the person of your choice. Give $50--send a greeting to two friends. Give $100, Project Medishare will send a greeting to...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning For World AIDS Day today, Project Medishare will have a memorial in remembrance of those who have succumbed to the disease. The memorial will take place in Casse/Lahoye. Following the memorial, four small group sessions will be held in four densely populated areas....
Read MoreBy Katie Lee HICAGNE, Haiti---While I haven't spent Thanksgiving at home in quite a few years, this was the first that I've spent in a country that doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving! Today was the last day of clinic, and it was a perfect end to the...
Read MoreBy Woon Cho Kim BATILLE, ,CASSE DISTRICT, Haiti---Three whole days of rural outreach clinics and couple of hundreds of patients later, my mind is absolutely overwhelmed with too many thoughts, reflections, and emotions. Coming to Haiti as a young medical student in training may just be...
Read MoreBy Constance Harrell HINCHE, Haiti---Meeting the Hinche commune’s minister of health was both inspiring and revealing of how much of the international medical work connects with the local health workers. Kathleen, Jen, and Matt, three Gyn/Oncology doctors from MD Anderson who have been running...
Read MoreBy Sameer Kapadia CASSE, Haiti---First day of clinic and I started off in pediatric triage. It was wild. I have never felt as much anxiety taking a blood pressure reading as I did taking the first one of the day. Let me set the scene:...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Because Rome's U.N. Food and Agriculture offices are unheated at night, U.N. Food Chief Jacques Diouf bundled up with a hat, scarf and overcoat over his pajamas and spent the night on a makeshift mattress in an effort to draw attention to the...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Don't miss out on hearing Edwidge Danticat read at the REBUILD HAITI: MISSION POSSIBLE event. Today is the final day to RSVP. The fundraiser will feature Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Award,” Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is known for her contemporary...
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