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Share Your Time and Your Talents with Friends For Health In Haiti
Should be Share Your Time and Your Talents with Friends for Health in Haiti Friends for Health in Haiti would love to learn more about you! We are looking for individuals to help fill volunteer roles within our organization. Express your interest and share your talents by scanning the QR code and completing the form…
Read MoreFinding Small Joys In Our Work
Finding Small Joys in Our Work Cherlie and I (Dr. Wolf) have always considered ourselves to be hospital-based practitioners since our early years in Haiti were spent in a large mission hospital and we both worked in hospitals in Milwaukee. But, the Lord brought us to Jérémie to develop and work in an outpatient setting…
Read MoreOur Medical Students are Almost Finished!
TRAINING NEW VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY PROMOTERS We are very glad to announce that both of the medical students we are putting through medical school in Port-au-Prince are nearly finished with their training! After 5 years of education, they are both now in their year of internship, after which they will work for a year doing government…
Read MoreWelcome New Staff!
Welcome New Staff! Widlain Velny Widlain Velny is a young man we hired to assist in the medical records department. He finished his secondary school education and is taking courses in Theology with our medical records technician, Adrien Jean Jacques, who is also our clinic chaplain. Widlain is learning to do monthly statistics for the…
Read MoreTraining New Volunteer Community Promoters
TRAINING NEW VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY PROMOTERS Over the course of two consecutive weekends, August 29-30 and September 5-6, Dr. Wolf, Cherlie and our community development staff and promoters conducted a training session for 16 new Community Promoters. This included 12 people from 6 new communities and 4 from communities where previous promoters have resigned or moved…
Read MoreNote From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf
Note From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf Our Water and Sanitation Program began in 2013 with the training of 12 volunteer community promoters from 6 communities near our clinic in Gatineau. In 2016 we trained another 12 promoters from 6 communities further up in the mountains. This past month we were happy to complete the…
Read MoreNote From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf
Note From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf One of the things that sets Friends for Health in Haiti apart from other non-profit organizations is our long-term commitment to the ruralHaitians we serve. When we begin a new program, such as our Water and Sanitation Program or our Goat Program, it is our desire to see…
Read MoreKeeping Goats Healthy
Keeping Goats Healthy Every 3 months, our community development staff and veterinary tech Bruny Chevalier conduct mobile veterinary clinics in each of the 8 communities where we have our Goat Program. The program recipients bring the adult female goats as well as any baby goats that need to be vaccinated or given preventive medication like…
Read MoreWhat is a Capped Water Source?
What Is a Capped Water Source? Most people who live in communities near our Gatineau clinic get their water from underground springs which are generally free from contamination. When the spring comes up to the surface, it leaks water on to the ground and this is known as a water “source”. To collect water from…
Read MoreClinic
Clinic Our outpatient clinic in Gatineau has been extremely busy since Cherlie and I (Dr. Wolf) returned to Haiti in mid-May after a trip to the US. We’re seeing up to 60 patients each day, many of them walking for hours to get to us or taking motorcycle taxis that charge far more for the…
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