Don't forget - Mother's Day is Sunday, May 11th.  Project Medishare has released a special Mother's Day Appeal to complete their innovative program to treat malnourished children with locally grown ingredients.  Once established in Thomonde, Project Medishare wants to expand their coverage throughout the entire Central Plateau.  You can make a special donation in your mother's name to Project Medishare this year, helping to make sure that Haitian mothers are able to keep their children nourished and healthy.  

We frequently write about the innovative work that Project Medishare and its partners began in Thomonde and have expanded into ineighboring provinces.  Recently, they remodelled their website and added a very nice blog and its definitely worth a look if you are interested in Haiti's Central Plateau and public health.

At Haiti Innovation, we frequently discuss issues relating to health, community mobilization, and development.  From time to time, we also like to focus on a particular province to illustrate that  positive changes that are being made.  In this way, when people ask you if there is hope for Haiti, we hope you will reply with a resounding yes. Read more »

Below is an announcement  that the Green Family Foundation will be providing 2.4 million for health care and nutrition programs in Haiti.  The Green Family Foundation has been supporting innovative programming in Haiti for years.

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During the past 60 hours over 20 Haitian children in Port-au-Prince received some of the best medical care from Dr. John Ragheb and his visiting team from Miami Children’s Hospital. Pediatric Neurosurgeons Dr. Ragheb and Dr. Bhatia, also of Miami Children’s accompanied by a 7th year resident started performing surgery on children with Hydrocephalus just 3 hours after landing in Haiti this past Sunday. With the post-op and outreach support of Healing Hands Haiti and Project Medishare and the logistical support of Norwich Mission House Dr. Ragheb’s team of 19 performed third vetriculostomy surgeries, a procedure with an 80% success rate on most of the children they saw. Read more »

This Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the Tallahassee Community College will host a fund-raiser for Project Medishare. Project Medishare is an organization dedicated to improving the health of the Haitian people by re-establishing the health infrastructure in several communities and facilities throughout Haiti.
The event will feature a screening of "There Once Was a Country," a documentary about Haiti narrated by Maya Angelou, food, drinks and cultural dance by the Tallahassee Community College’s Haitian Culture Club.

Haiti is now at a critical point with respects to its socioeconomic, political and health conditions. Each of these aspects are intricately woven with one another, as in many nations, however the nature of Haiti's situation is so dependent on the successful resilience of each of these factors. There is optimism for Haiti's reemergence from decades of anguish, and I witnessed tangible progress from the field during my week-long medical mission organized jointly by The George Washington University School of Medicine and Project Medishare.

Hydrocephalus is a congenital disease that affects 2 out of every 1000 births. In most places, shortly after birth, a somewhat simple operation allows a child a greater chance at a normal life. Read more »