In 2004, the UNDP released a report offering a stinging reminder of the hardship Haiti faced. Two years later and not that much has changed at the aggregate level. Read more »

Thanks to the tireless and persistent work of Partners in Health, Elda has finally received her birth certificate and visa. With those two pieces of paper in hand, Elda and her mother will be traveling to Cleveland this week for the surgery. We are thankful that these last hurdles have been cleared and we can finally provide her with the care she deserves. Please keep Elda in your thoughts and prayers over the coming weeks.
If you would like to help Elda and her family, please contact us at 202-276-1015 or chris@haitiinnovation.org.

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Read more » For the past 13 years, HOHS (the Haitian organization for Health Services) has been working in the region of Cayes (Haiti) with a religious organization to provide health services to indigent children and pregnant women in the area.

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 »

Each of the members of Haiti Innovation's Board of Directors was a Peace Corps Volunteer. Each of us had rewarding experiences, alike in some ways and different in the others. For us, it was an opportunity to become familiar with another culture intimately, to learn another language fluently, and to work side by side with out Haitian counterparts on projects with the potential to change a community for the better. We learned about Haiti, and through us, Haitians learned about the United States and Americans. Read more »

Today, the 4th annual World Water Forum met in Mexico City, Mexico to release the triennial UN World Water Development Report, a collaboration of 24 UN agencies in partnership with governments and other organizations. Click here to find a copy of the 2nd United Nations World Water Development Report: 'Water, a shared responsibility'. Read more »

Tomorrow is World Water Day, how will you celebrate? In many countries around the world, an abundant and potable water supply such as our own is pure fantasy. In Haiti, countless women and children wake hours before sunrise in order to walk miles to the nearest community well or mountain spring. Read more »

Haitians are nothing if not hard-working. Making ends meet from week to week on less than a dollar a day requires a tremendous amount of creativity and perseverance, the essential qualities of entrepreneurship. Respected organizations throughout the world such as the Grameen Bank and BRAC have for years helped the poorest of the poor tap this creative spirit through small loans that give individuals the freedom to start their own businesses and provide for their families. When combined with training, micro-credit functions as a strong form of capacity building by providing the external resources needed for people to tap their own inner resources. 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.

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There is perhaps no measure of a country’s health situation as telling as the health of its children. Children are often the most vulnerable members of society, especially when they are living in areas affected by conflict and/or have been displaced. Read more »