Author Archives: Jennifer
Jennifer Neil
Mission Possible
It is a few days after the 9th annual Mission Possible – Medical Benefit for Haiti, so lets reminisce. My introduction to the Haiti Outreach Program was when my daughter, now 21, was in the 1st grade. I attended an assembly at Sacred Heart Cathedral School about the work being done in Boucan Carre, Haiti. [...]
A New Perspective
This is an excerpt from a paper written by Mary Fox, HOP Board member, about her recent trip to Haiti “. . . As coordinator of the sea container for Give Haiti Hope at Sacred Heart, it’s my job to gather, store, pack and ship items to our sister parish, St. Michel. It was rewarding [...]
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Email from HOP Medical Team Member currently in Port-au-Prince
> Hi honey. > Things are coming together nicely > Our group is taking over at a hospital where the French are vacating. It is downtown and they need all our surgeons > The name of the hospital is Sacred Heart. > I and Elise opened a clinic today at the epicenter of the earthquake [...]
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So what IS going on???
The Haiti Outreach Program, Who are they? What do they do? How can I become involved? These questions are asked each day through our website www.givehaitihope.org, so I will do my best to fill you in. Who are they? – The members of the Haiti Outreach Program are people just like you. We have crazy [...]
Emotional Roller-Coaster
I don’t know about you all, but I have been on an emotional roller-coaster for the last 2 weeks. My mood swings from sadness to grief to pride to irritation to worry back to pride and so on. I am sad, sad for all those whose lives changed in the instant we call an earthquake [...]
“My 1st experience with the Haiti Outreach Program”