By 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...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Double your giving spirit this holiday season by doing your shopping online with online partners like GoodShop, iGive, and Donation Street. Instead of bracing yourself for a season of jam-packed parking lots and crowded stores find that perfect something for that perfect someone,...
Read More[blip.tv ?posts_id=2819588&dest=-1] By Jennifer Browning If you missed the panel discussion "Meeting the Challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A Progress Report from the Poorest Country in the Americas." You can see it in the embedded video above or by going directly to the CSIS...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Dr. Barth Green, Project Medishare's co-founder, will be joining UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning For the second year in a row, Coral Gables Congregational Church will host REBUILD HAITI: MISSION POSSIBLE. The fundraiser will feature Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius Award," Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is known for her contemporary work of Haitian heritage writing...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Since their first partnering trip with Project Medishare in December 2008, University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has been working toward raising enough money to send two medical groups to Haiti in 2010. They received quite a boost after...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning In November, Project Medishare's Co-Founder, Dr. Barth Green will join UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning If you've been tending to your crops in Farmville, think about purchasing some sweet potato seeds in an effort to feed children in Haiti. Under Zynga's "Sweed Seeds" initiative, when Farmville users purchase special sweet potato seeds, 50 percent of profits are donated to...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Coral Gables Congregational Church (CGCC) is partnering again with Project Medishare this holiday season to provide toys for children in Thomonde and Marmont. The church annually hosts an Angel Tree/Toy Drive campaign and chose the children of Haiti be the beneficiaries of the...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning An estimated 30,000 Haitians were infected this year and several thousand more across the border in the Dominican Republic. Such statistics prompted former President Jimmy Carter to begin a $200,000 pilot program to fight malaria in Ouanaminthe and in neighboring Dajabon, Dominican Republic....
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