Today, March 15, 2023, is a significant day for the Health for Haiti team. March 15, 2015 was the first day that our water filtration system, donated by the Pall Corporation in Cortland, New York, started filtering and cleaning water from the Artibonite River, making it safe to drink. Now, eight years later, we are…
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai Conditions remain very unsettled in Haiti, but the Haitian Ministry of Education has begun to gradually start opening schools across the country. The school that Health for Haiti partners with in Grande Saline School is unique, and actually began holding regular…
Greetings from Health for Haiti. While we are sad to report that our community partners in Haiti are facing significant challenges associated with cholera, we want to share their efforts to face the crisis. Cholera is a diarrheal disease that if left untreated can cause rapid dehydration, kidney failure, and death. Cholera spreads when water…
Greetings from Health for Haiti. It feels utterly impossible to convey in a few sentences the devastating humanitarian crisis that our friends in Haiti are currently experiencing. There are blocked roads and dire shortages of fuel. It is very difficult to find safe drinking water. There is catastrophic hunger and violence in the streets. Many…
Quality education is a major priority for SUNY Broome Health for Haiti. With generous help from donors, we have worked to support students and staff and enhance educational opportunities in rural Grande Saline. As a result of these efforts over the past several years, the school in Grande Saline has grown considerably and now offers…
“Food is hope. Food is dignity. Food is empathy. Food is community. Food is family. Food is caring. Food is nourishment. Food is resilience. Food is building longer tables. Food is peace. Food is love!” José Andrés (Chef and Humanitarian) Human needs don’t get much more basic than water and food, and adequate access to…
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” Lady Bird Johnson As we welcome the warmth and promise of spring in upstate New York, Health for Haiti is celebrating an exciting new beginning at the school in Grande Saline. Construction that began last fall is now complete and students have started attending classes in their beautiful and…
Haiti has been in the world news since the assassination of President Moise last week. For a country already facing so much poverty and insecurity, the instability of the government and exacerbation of anarchy and violence are making an already desperate situation even worse. And although the assassination has only recently moved Haiti into the…
Greetings from Health for Haiti! In 2016 Health for Haiti started a scholarship program to assist students who were having trouble obtaining an education. Over the past few years, the program has helped many students stay in school and continue on with their education. One of our first scholarship receipients was a young man named…
As people at home and across the world continue to deal with our new COVID reality, it is easy to lose sight of how the current challenges only added to an already dire situation in places like rural Haiti. Even prepandemic, data from organizations like the Global Hunger Index (GHI) identified Haiti as one of…
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