Bridge to Haiti
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Education for Everyone!
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…
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First Digital Literacy Class for Adults Held in Grande Saline
Health for Haiti and Bridge to Haiti have been helping to provided computer equipment and digital resources to children in urban and rural Haiti for some time now. We are pleased and proud to welcome our new computer literacy teacher in Grande Saline, Mr. Eric. Not only is Mr. Eric offering classes to the school…
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Student Garden Yields Healthy Harvest
We are still dealing with plenty of winter weather in the Binghamton, NY area, but the sun is shining and the gardens are growing in Grande Saline. The tomatoes and okra planted by the 2018 Health for Haiti class are being picked and enjoyed by the school children in Grande Saline. There are beans and…
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Technology Enhances Education in Grande Saline
The computer literacy program in Grande Saline, which started with one laptop powered by a gas generator in July 2014, has continued to expand and grow. Now, technology and computer classes are part of the graded curriculum at the primary school in Grande Saline. Students in all different grade levels enjoy computer classes taught by teacher,…
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“Bridge to Haiti”: Computer Class Continues in Grande Saline
The children in Grande Saline continue to enjoy their computer literacy lessons and are becoming more and more comfortable in their computer use. The pictures below are from a class this week.The children are using three laptops donated by Geodis and SUNY Broome. The laptops were refurbished by the Bridging the Digital Divide Program (BDDP) and are currently powered…
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Geodis Donates More Toughbooks for “Bridge to Haiti”!
Geodis has once again provided valuable equipment for the Bridge to Haiti program. John Yesensky and his team from Asset Recovery Operations at Geodis in Endicott have refurbished and donated thirteen more Panasonic Toughbooks to the program. Last summer, Geodis donated six of these rugged machines, the very first computers that Bridge to Haiti placed in…
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Pall Corporation Donates Laptops to “Bridge to Haiti” Program
Thank you (once again) to the Pall Corporation in Cortland, New York! Today, the employees at Pall donated 35 (!) laptops to Health for Haiti’s “Bridge to Haiti” program. The used laptops were prepared and reformatted by Pall employee Rick Dorman, who worked on the laptops in his spare time. The computers were picked up at Pall in…
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Update: Health for Haiti 2015 Projects
It has been a very busy and exciting few months for Health for Haiti. We have eighteen students registered for the 2015 course and we are raising money to fund our health clinics and other projects. We are also making plans for our January 5th departure to Haiti. Thanks to our amazing and generous corporate…
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Health for Haiti Summer Update: Laptops and Clean Water
The 2014-2015 “Bridge to Haiti” project is off to a great start! Thanks to a generous donation of time and resources from Geodis and the Bridging the Digital Divide Program (BDDP), SUNY Broome’s ‘Health for Haiti’ was able to provide six refurbished Panasonic Toughbooks for schools and orphanages in Haiti. The six laptops were distributed to four different locations in Haiti.…