By 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....
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Over the weekend, big names congregated in conference rooms in a luxury hotel in Haiti. Big names like Levi and Gap were interested in the potential of American trade legislation that wipes out duties on apparel assembled in Haiti. Citibank and Scotiabank were...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Got a mountain in mind to climb? Are the Everglades calling you to traverse it's ghostly winding paths? Now you can choose your next pair of boots from Timberland, who has created a 16-boot footwear collection specifically for Wyclef Jean's Yéle Haiti organization....
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Although the cruise line mostly bills the stop as Hispanola, Miami's Royal Caribbean Cruises has been making Labadee, Haiti a frequent port of call. Now the cruise line is making a an investment, nearly $55 million, to fuel hope that Haiti can become a...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio, one of our partnering universities, entered Healthcare for Haiti as an idea to support on Ideablob.com in order to help them raise money for their medical trip in January, and to help funding...
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