Monthly Archives: January 2010
How do I help?
(Published Jan 18, 2010. Updated Jan 24, 2010.) I cannot count how many times I have heard this question this week. How can I help? What can I do? What do you need? I am so truly touched every time someone asks me these questions. I want to thank everyone for their amazing generosity over [...]
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Aftershock.
Wednesday, Jan 20 – 6:23am. Hi all; Just a few minute ago, we had the earthquake again. So, we are again out of all the house. Sincerely, Johnny
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On the Ground in Cange – by Dr John Crocker
Dr. Jon Crocker is currently working at the PIH hospital in Cange since Sunday, where he emailed us the following report: We arrived at Cange, in the Central Plateau, the heart of operations for Partners In Health/Zamni Lasante, yesterday. As we expected, things are incredibly busy. People are still arriving from Port-au-Prince. Those who have [...]
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Building back better – 01/17/2010 Dr Paul Farmer
PIH co-founder Paul Farmer penned this op-ed in Sunday’s Miami Herald. A few months ago, I joined President Clinton as a volunteer to, in his words, help Haiti “build back better” after a series of storms in 2008 destroyed an estimated 15 percent of already beleaguered Haiti’s GDP. We had just been meeting about these [...]
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Haiti Outreach Volunteers on WVLT
Haiti Outreach Program student volunteers Katie Riley and Katie Erpenbach talk about the conditions in Haiti before the earthquake and what is being done to help today. (Video embedded from wvlt.com, please allow a moment to load. If it does not load after a minute, click the title of this blog entry.)
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Emotional Roller-Coaster