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…
Greetings from Health for Haiti! School is once again in session at SUNY Broome and in Grande Saline. We are happy to see students and staff get back to work in Binghamton and in Haiti. We are also glad that everyone is taking steps to protect their health so we can all stay safe while…
Greetings from Health for Haiti. Over the past months we have received many questions about how our friends in Haiti are doing and how they are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in the United States we are all too familiar with news about rising infections (some of the highest rates in the world), widespread…
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill Anyone who follows the news in Haiti is all too familiar with ominous reports of corruption, civil unrest, protests, roadblocks, kidnapping, disruption of schools and businesses, open combat between police, soldiers and gang members, gas shortages,…
Greetings from Health for Haiti. It was heartbreaking to miss our annual trip to Haiti this month, but we have been encouraged by the continued progress we are seeing in Grande Saline. Our students and staff certainly lost a valuable opportunity to travel and serve in Haiti, but we are glad to see that in…
Yesterday, November 18, was a day of holiday, celebration, and tremendous national pride in Haiti. The school in Grande Saline marked the occasion with a community-wide parade and party that included reenactments, music, and dancing. At a time when most of the news from Haiti centers around unrest, turmoil, and suffering, yesterday’s news from the…
Hello, Health for Haiti friends. We want to share a thoughtful and unflinching update about the current situation in Haiti that was written by the admirable Fr. Rick Frechette at Saint Luke Foundation in Port au Prince. We at Health for Haiti are inspired by Fr. Rick’s tremendous commitment to the people of Haiti, through…
Dear Health for Haiti Friends, We need you! Please join us next Sunday, November 10th between 8am and 10am at Applebees on Front Street in Binghamton for our “Pancakes for Progress” fundraiser. Come out and eat some pancakes for a good cause! In case you don’t think that $7 and some of your time on…
