By Gina Hoang, on December 12th, 2010
By Gina Hoang, on November 20th, 2010
Beth Macy, a reporter for the Roanoke Times in Virginia, went to Haiti to follow Vanessa Carpenter of Angel Missions Haiti. She ended up following the Maine-Dartmouth team as they went to Limbe at the UN’s request, to respond to the cholera epidemic. Her story is documented in the Roanoke Times Newsroom blog in the following series:
Reporter Beth Macy heads to Haiti to bring an international story home – 2010/11/12
Beth Macy describes chaotic situation reporting from Haiti – 2010/11/15
Angel Missions team reaches safety – 2010/11/16
Dispatches from northern Haiti – 2010/11/16
Journalist Macy returns to U.S. – 2010/11/17
Back in Roanoke and thankful for the help – 2010/11/18
as well as in this article, Roanoke Times reporter, missionaries, escape chaotic region – 2010/11/17
(photo courtesy of the Roanoke Times)
By Gina Hoang, on November 20th, 2010
The latest trip to Haiti was featured yesterday in the Portland Press Herald.
Also, Keziah Furth, who helped retrieve the team from Bon Samaritan Hospital in Limbe, Haiti when they became trapped in the hospital due to rioting, documented their adventures in her blog, “Mwen renmen ti moun Ayiti yo!” Read about how she ran the numerous blockades to get to the team and bring them out to Gonaives where the UN could escort them the rest of the way to Port au Prince. Click on the photos below for more of her photos of their rescue.
By Gina Hoang, on November 18th, 2010
The latest team from Maine-Dartmouth is back in the US, and were interviewed by PRI’s The World. If you didn’t catch it on the radio, listen to it now.
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By cjokonya, on November 11th, 2010
We caught the 3am bus and the 6am connection (just!) and are back in PAP. We spent the afternoon putting meds into prescription size little packs and sorting out our supplies so that hopefully today will run more smoothly. Will update later today.
By cjokonya, on October 24th, 2010
My frustration at hearing about the cholera epidemic in Haiti has moved me to start blogging.
The out pouring of donations by the international community after the earthquake was amazing – it seemed that the whole world came together to help Haiti in her time of need. World leaders expressed the view that despite the destruction and the deaths, this could be an opportunity to rebuild Haiti, and this time provide the proper, basic infrastructure that did not exist before.
Our last trip to Haiti was just after the earthquake. The devastation was heartbreaking, and the seeming lack of progress in any visible reconstruction depressing. Going from one overcrowded tent city to another seeing and treating people as best we could, it was clear that the overcrowding and poor sanitation was an epidemic waiting to happen. One could only hope that new houses would be built and people relocated long before this could happen. Unfortunately little progress has been made and it has taken another disaster to refocus peoples attention back on Haiti.
As we prepare to go back early November, I ask myself when, if ever, the international community will stop waiting for preventable disasters and multiple deaths before realising that it will cost less in lives and money to institute real change and sustainable development programs.
I will give an update of our experiences once I get to Haiti and sincerely hope that my pessimism is misguided.
By Gina Hoang, on May 23rd, 2010
Recently, a team of 8 went to Haiti for a week to work free clinics and see lots of patients. Keziah Furth helped organize their trip, and she blogged about how things went.
By jvandeusen, on March 31st, 2010
A great compilation of stories about Haiti post-earthquake.Click on the link that follows that says “PIHTK” for a PDF…..
PIHTK
By Gina Hoang, on February 18th, 2010
Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency & Le Club Calumet is having a Fundraiser to raise money for supplies that our healthcare providers need to bring with them to Haiti in May.
Please, Come and Join us in raising money to help purchase these much needed supplies for the people of Haiti. These healthcare providers will be a huge support and relief to those already there.
Family Dinner and Dance
March 19th, 2010
6:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Spaghetti Dinner w/marinara sauce or meat sauce,
DJ music by John Marble
We will have raffles and 50/50 drawings.
$15.00 per person – $25.00 per Couple
$35.00 for a family of 3 – $40.00 for a Family of 4
And $45.00 for a Family of 5 – $5.00 for any additional people
Contact Laurie Pelletier at laurie.pelletier (at) mainegeneral (dot) org, or Tammy Manduca- tammy.manduca (at) mainegeneral (dot) org for more details or to purchase tickets.
By Gina Hoang, on January 20th, 2010
The residency has gotten some local recognition of it’s trips to Haiti, in light of recent events and our hope to do more good in Haiti on upcoming trips. Jim Schneid, Chi Jokonya, and I were interviewed for this article that was released yesterday in the Capital Weekly and an abbreviated version was release in the Kennebec Journal.
