The 2015 Health for Haiti class met this morning to finish packing our luggage for Haiti. We ended up with 36 suitcases filled with over 1800 pounds of medical supplies, toys, clothing, fabric, educational materials, computer supplies, 27 laptops, and 1000 personal care kits! In Haiti we hope to find our shipping container housing the water…
The 2015 Health for Haiti class would like to thank all of the members of our community who donated medical supplies, personal care items, toys, fabric and clothing for our upcoming trip to Haiti. We are now in the process of organizing and packing all of the supplies in suitcases. We are overwhelmed by your…
With Christmas just a couple of days away, the children at the Bridge to Haiti computer school in Grande Saline enjoyed a very special holiday treat. Their teacher, Dazulmey Jeudy (Tida),organized a “Fèt Noel” (Christmas Party) where the children sang Christmas songs and had a special holiday meal. They enjoyed a plate of rice and…
The “Sew N’ Sews”, a ladies sewing group at the United Methodist Church in Whitney Point, New York, have donated over 100 beautiful hand made dresses to Health for Haiti. The 2015 Health for Haiti class will distribute the dresses in Haiti this January. The Sew N’ Sews have made over 6000 of these beautiful…
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…
Using washcloths, shampoo, lotion, soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes that were donated by the generous SUNY Broome community, the SUNY Broome Dental Hygiene students assembled 500 personal care kits for people in Haiti. The kits will be distributed by the 2015 Health for Haiti students while they are in Haiti this January. “We are putting together the care kits…
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…
We are now accepting applications for the 2015 Health for Haiti class. Please click here for an application.
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.…
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