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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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“The City is changed forever” – Dr Evan Lyon – PIH
Reprint of email from Ophelia Dahl, Executive Director PIH “The city is changed forever” 01/17/2010 In today’s earliest hours, Dr. Evan Lyon recounted his reactions to PIH staff in Boston. He spent his first twelve hours in Port-au-Prince driving around the city identifying places in need so that PIH could pursue a more decentralized approach [...]
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Through a Mother’s Eyes.
As I sit in my living room, with 2 healthy children sleeping in their beds, I cannot stop myself from thinking about the Moms in Port-au-Prince tonight. On a good day, a mother in Haiti has so much more on her shoulders than I do on my worst day. On a good day a Mom [...]
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The Baptism – Sophia’s Story
Sophia Mire, a volunteer of the HOP, told me the story of her second trip to Haiti. “I remember it like it was yesterday. The smell was unbearable. It was the smell of human sweat and urine. Un-bathed but still beautiful. I cannot explain why, but for some unapparent reason, it was the most spiritual [...]
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The Path to Healthcare in Bouly
Volunteers representing the Haiti Outreach Program (HOP) have been traveling to Boucan-Carré for 10 years now. So what has been happening in those 10 years?
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On the Ground in Cange – by Dr John Crocker