by haitadmin | Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
A year after the cholera outbreak, the infection has sickened close to half a million Haitians, and experts fear that the number of dead may reach 10,000 by the end of the year. It is, says Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, “far and away the biggest epidemic in...
by haitadmin | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Does your organization work with children in Haiti? If so, help us fight malnutrition and dysentery, and boost school attendance, by distributing albendazole de-worming pills. We have a supply of albendazole de-worming pills ready for distribution from our warehouse...
by haitadmin | Oct 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
By providing potable water to disadvantaged neighborhoods in Haiti, we expected that the residents’ lives would improve. They did, however an unlikely and unfortunate consequence presented itself; if people needed to collect water at night, how would they do so...
by haitadmin | Oct 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
The percentage of Haitian people currently infected with worms is staggering; nearly 80% of Haiti’s 9.7 million people have some form of intestinal worms. These parasites are especially threatening to children who are malnourished already; intestinal worms can consume...
by haitadmin | Oct 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Since October 2010, the death toll from cholera has reached 6,435. The Haitian Health Ministry places the number of people infected just under 500,000. The mode of transport of cholera from person to person is unclean water; other illnesses profit from untreated...
