A good foundation is essential for supporting a physical structure, like a building, or a program, like a community education initiative. Today Health for Haiti is excited to highlight the literal and figurative foundations that support the popular sewing skills program in Grande Saline. For the past few years, formal sewing classes have been offered…
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world,” -Nelson Mandela Since 2014, Health for Haiti has partnered with the local school in Grande Saline to help provide quality education for the children who live in this community. Over the past few years, we have seen the school grow from about…
For over five years SUNY Broome Health for Haiti has been fortunate to have built partnerships between Americans and Haitians that have changed all of our lives for the better. We have learned a lot from each other as we work side by side, join together to celebrate our successes, and do our best to…
The Health for Haiti dental and health teams spend long hours in Haiti working in the clinics because they want to share their skills and talents and serve as many people as possible. Health for Haiti is so incredibly proud of the tremendous effort and amazing service that our dental hygiene team provided in Haiti this…
Thanks to SUNY Broome’s Silvia Briga for making this video about our clean water project in Grande Saline, Haiti.
Last week our friends in Grande Saline came together to celebrate four years of clean, safe drinking water. Just outside of the newly finished walls that now surround and protect the water system, people from the community gathered in the shade for a party with cake, streamers, balloons and music. “I thank everyone in the…
Greetings from Health for Haiti! At the request of the community in Grande Saline we recently expanded two of our most successful education programs. Computer classes with Mr. Eric remain one of the most popular offerings at the school in Grande Saline. With donated/refurbished laptops and content created by SUNY Broome students who are part…
Once again our dear friends in Haiti are dealing with turmoil, chaos, and in some places, violence in the streets. Frustration over poverty and poor living conditions are driving many people to protest against what they see as unfair economic and social policies. As always, the situation in Haiti is complex. What is clear is…
The 2019 Health for Haiti class is home safe and readjusting to the cold weather, but our projects continue in sunny Grande Saline, Haiti. Nearly 15,000 gallons of safe drinking water were distributed this week and we expect work on the perimeter wall to be finished very soon. Our next initiative will be to help…
Greetings from Haiti! Today was our last full day in Haiti and we spent most of it at the beach (well, actually we spent most of it on the bus). After breakfast we prepared the toys and lunch we had for the kids from OAEH who were coming to the beach with us. Unfortunately our…
