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Training 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…
Note 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…
Note 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…
Keeping 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…
What 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…
Clinic
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…
Expanding Hygiene and Sanitation Education
EXPANDING HYGIENE AND SANITATION EDUCATION The volunteer Community Promoters who work in our Water and Sanitation Program have expanded the areas in which they provide community education to include 8 new communities adjacent to their own. This has provided a new spark of enthusiasm and motivation to the promoters and has given the communities an…
A Successful Banquet in Milwaukee!
A Successful Banquet in Milwaukee! We’d like to thank everyone who made our recent annual fund-raising banquet on May 3 a success! Your generosity will allow us to continue to support our clinic and expand community development programs. ClinicSalariesDr. Catherine Wolf updating the banquet guests on the clinic and community development programs. Steve “The Homer”…
Note From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf
Note From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf As we begin a new year of ministry in Haiti, we want to acknowledge those who helped us finish out the previous year with enough resources to guarantee future progress. We’d like to give a huge thanks to those of you who contributed to Friends for Health in…
Expanding Our Staff
Expanding Our Staff We are making an effort to have our staff learn more about the basic functions of the clinic so that they can eventually take over some of these responsibilities from me (Dr. Wolf) and Cherlie. Part of this effort involves the finances of the clinic. In the past, we’ve had the registration…